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Votive bomos to Zeus

Type of monument:
Votive altar.
Location:
Uluborlu (Apollonia): behind the house of Yusuf Bey, in the new main street.
Description:
Round limestone bomos with crown and base mouldings; on the shaft, three bucrania and garlands in relief.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.85; Diameter 0.41 (crown moulding), 0.39-0.43 (shaft), 0.46; letters 0.030.
Record:
MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/80).
Publication:
Labarre, Özsait, Özsait and Güceren 2012: 129-30, no.9.
Date:
Late Hellenistic or Roman imperial period.
 
 

Διός
Of Zeus.

On round votive bomoi in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, see Coulton 2005. For the cult of Zeus at Apollonia, see MAMA IV 141 (first century BC: a priest of Zeus). The monument is implausibly dated to the second or third century AD by Labarre, Özsait, Özsait and Güceren 2012: 129-30, no.9.

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 10 (Apollonia 10: 1956-80)

MAMA XI 10 (Apollonia 10: 1956-80)