Dedication to ?Aphrodite
created: Read from the photograph. (Reynolds).
source date: Probably second century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 6 p.327 and fig 12, whence [...] 9.116, [...] 323970; [...], 91 and fig 70 (drawing only), from T. A(nti?) III 38), on which [...], 153-6, whence [...], 1988.1011; discussed, [...]

[...]τρόφῳ

[^a1: at 0: [Κουρο]τρ[ό]φω | [Πολυ]τρ[ό]φῳ | [Κωρο]τρ[ό]φῳ]

Translation

. . . -]nourisher

Commentary

Monument and letter forms closely recall the series of altars C.323 C.324, C.325, C.326, C.327, C.328; on this see Marengo, art. cit.

Line 1: Oliverio (loc. cit) proposed [κουρο]τρ[ό]φω , known as a title of Hekate (Hesiod Th. 450), Artemis (D.S. V 73), Lochia (SEG III, 400.9, available at PHI 239257), Rumina (Plut. II. 278D), and especially of Aphrodite (Homer, Epigr, 12). If the altar is to be associated with C.323 ff., the last seems the most likely subject here.

Line 1: From the drawing in the 1963 publication it is clear that Oliverio saw part of the curve of O.