IGII34 863 Dedication to Asklepios

Dedication to Asklepios

IG II³ 4 863 Date: 1st-3rd century AD

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IG II³ 4 863 (Translated text) (IG Online)

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Columella

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Asklepios?)

Findspot: Acropolis, south slope, between the Odeion of Regilla and the Theatre of Dionysos (Lost)

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[1] Only seven letters of this inscription, spread out over three lines, were preserved and no sense can be made of them. However, traces of lead for attaching a bronze penis to the stone survived, indicating that this columella was an ‘anatomical votive’ (on which see AIUK 4.5, pp. 69; J. Draycott and E.-J. Graham, Bodies of Evidence, 2017). It was probably dedicated near its findspot, in the Asklepieion on the south slope of the Acropolis (on which, see IG II³ 4, 665). The columella has long been lost and is known only from the initial archaeological report by Demetrios Philios in 1876 (see Αρχείον των μνημείων των Αθηνών και της Αττικής I 56, n. 248).

Added: 15 May 2025
Updated: 15 May 2025
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