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Votive bomos to Theos Hypsistos

Type of monument:
Votive bomos.
Location:
İğdir (Eumeneia): not recorded.
Description:
Bomos, broken below.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.65+; W. 0.40 (upper moulding), 0.36 (lower moulding); Th. 0.39; letters 0.030-0.040.
Record:
Squeeze (1954/18).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Roman imperial period.
 
 

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[. . .]ω̣νιο
[. . . . .]ω[. .]
[. . . . .]Λ̣ΟΙ̣Ο̣
[. . . .]Δ̣[. ]τ̣ου̣
5[. . . . ]Ν[. ]ω Ὑ-
[ψ]έστῳ
εὐχήν.
...to the highest god, in fulfillment of a vow.

In line 1, we could well have the remnants of a personal name (e.g. [Ἀπολλ]ώ̣νιο[ς]). The traces in line 4 are compatible with the reading [ὑπὲρ ἑ]α̣[υ]τ̣οῦ̣. For the spelling Ὕψεστος, compare I.Laodikeia 61; for the cult of (Θεὸς) Ὕψιστος in Phrygia, see Drew-Bear and Naour 1990: 2032-43; Mitchell 1999a, with a catalogue of relevant inscriptions, supplemented by Mitchell 2010. Cf. also MAMA XI 316 (1956/185).

For other inscriptions from İğdir, see Ramsay, Phrygia II 391, no. 251 (I.Denizli 164); Ramsay, Phrygia II 393, no. 267; Drew-Bear 1978: 87-9, IV 21 (SEG 28, 1152).

Illustrations:

Squeeze of MAMA XI 31 (Eumeneia 8: 1954-18)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 31 (Eumeneia 8: 1954-18)