IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

A.12. Anonymous dedication?

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.

Interpretive

αὐτὸϲ
οἶδεν

Diplomatic

ΑΥΤΟϹ
ΟΙΔΕΝ

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

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