INSCRIPTION

Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos on behalf of Zopyra

"INSCRIPTION TEXT"

1 [- Ὑψ]ίστῳ ὑπὲρ Ζωπύρας


[καὶ ? Ἀνθ]εστηρίου.  vac.

  Inscription Type: Votive Inscription
  Date: 2nd / 3rd c. CE
  Location: Unknown
  Museum (Storage Place: British School at Athens
  Inv. no:
  Name of Woman Ζωπύρα
  Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): Dedicator
   Comments:

Part of a round (cylindrical?) base of white (‘Pentelic’) marble with relief of a garlanded boukranion below the inscription. Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos on behalf of Zopyra and Anthesterios or Zopyra, daughter of Anthesterios. There are more dedications to the god during the imperial period, originating probably from the sanctuary of Zeus Hypsistos at the former meeting place of the Assembly on the Pnyx which date from the first, and mostly to the second and third centuries CE, see IG II3 4, 1239-1276.

  Bibliography:

IG II² 4056; IG II3, 4, 1269 (SEG 50, 201); AIUK 2 (BSA) αρ. 7; Lambert, ABSA 95 (2000), 505-506, E14

  Author: Giorgos Mitropoulos
  Added: 2024-12-30
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