IGII34 1260 Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos(?)

Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos(?)

IG II³ 4 1260 Date: 2nd cent. AD?

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IG II³ 4 1260 (Translated text) (IG Online)

Agora XVIII 577

Translation by: Peter Liddel

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)

Monument type: Plaque

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Hypsistos?)

Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 5307)

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[1] This may be identified as one of a number of imperial period dedications to Zeus Hypsistos (“Zeus The All High”) deriving possibly from the former site of the Athenian Assembly on the Pnyx. For other such dedications see AIUK 4.5 no. 13, with notes. Many of them take the form of anatomical votives. This example is a fragmentary plaque with a sculpted area depicting the side view of an upper-left leg, hip and buttock. This representation interrupts the inscription, which appeared to the left and right of the sculpture. It must have some connection with health, although we need not necessarily assume that the dedicant was suffering from a disease or injury directly afflicting the buttock, hip or upper thigh.

Added: 15 Mar 2022
Updated: 28 Mar 2024
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