Description:
Colonnette of marble, spirally fluted and tapering to a point
(h:
0.55 x diam.:
0.24-0.11).
Text: Inscribed on the base.
Letters: Probably Augustan; 0.02; cursive epsilon and lunate sigma.
Date: Probably Augustan
Findspot:
Apollonia: before 1941.
Unrecorded but probably the East Church , the only area being excavated at the time of recording.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
He (scil. the god) knows (scil. who gave this).
Commentary
Cf. phrases such as ὐπὲρ εὐχῆς οὖ ὁ θεὸς εἶδεν τὸ ὄνομα, SEG XV.14 (PHI 290783) and cuius nomen Deus scit uotum soluit, Diehl 2488 (EDH 5915); for later usages see C. Roueché (with D. Feissel) ‘Interpreting the signs: anonymity and concealment in Late Antique inscriptions’ (2007).
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 17 and pl. LXIII, whence SEG 27.1181.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).