Dedication of an altar
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Probably second century
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 156.3, fig 117 (drawing only, from T. XXI, 7-10), whence [...], 1964.570; [...], whence [...] 50.1637; [...], 3 whence [...] 57.2020, [...], 2008.604.

[...]ρα

πολυτρόπῳ

[^a1: at a: [Ἥ]ρᾳ | Ἑρ[μᾶι] | ?[Κύ]ρᾳ]

Translation

. . . ]ra, of many ways.

Commentary

All the altars in this set that are legible contain unusual elements. There is a discussion by Pugliese-Carratelli (1963).

a.line 1 This is now completely destroyed, but the one letter Ρ is visible on the photograph; Oliverio recorded a second sloping letter (Α or Λ), and Pugliese Carratelli restored [Ἥ]ρᾳ. Other possibilites are [Ἑ]ρ[μαῖ]/Hermes, who has the epithet in Homeric Ηymn IV,13 (at Perseus); [Ἄ]ρ[ει]/Ares on the analogy of Ἄρης πολυπάλαμος in C.324; or the local nymph Kyra, [Κύ]ρᾳ.