Dedication to the Samothracian Father
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Catherine Dobias-Lalou).
source date: First - third century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

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Πατρὶ θεῶι Ϲαμόθρακι ἀθανάτωι ὑψίϲτωι

ἀλιτηρίωι

[^a1: at b: omitteḍ | Α, Τ, ω | ?[Κ]α[β]ίρωι | ΑΤΩΙ | ἀλιτηρίωι]

Translation

[a]: For the Father, [b: avenging] God, Samothracian, immortal, highest.

Commentary

The reading of b suggested by Fabbricotti is very attractive, but cannot easily be accommodated with the traces.

For this combination of titles see the full discussion by Fraser. For the cult of the Highest God see Stephen Mitchell, "Hypsistos", with bibliography, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Berlin 2016), available at Academia.