MAMA XI 69 (Sebaste) 
Votive altar of Dionysios
- Type of monument:
- Funerary inscription.
- Location:
- Sebaste: between Samatlar and Çiftlik (Yeni Erice), in a fountain (Geycek Çeşmesi).
- Description:
- White crystalline marble bomos with upper and lower mouldings, complete. Guide-lines of inscription visible in lines 1-4.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.85; W. 0.58 (top), 0.50-0.52 (shaft), 0.59 (base); Th. 0.42 (top), 0.33-0.35 (shaft); letters 0.025-0.030.
- Record:
- Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/71).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
Διονύσιος Μην-
ᾶ εὐξάμ-
ενος ἀνέθη-
κεν βωμόν τῷ Δὶ
5καὶ τοῖς κατοικοῦ-
σιν ἐν Βαβδαλαις
Σ
Dionysios son of Menas dedicated the altar to Zeus and to those living in Babdalai, in fulfilment of a vow.
Illustrations:
Photograph of MAMA XI 69 (Sebaste 5: 1956-71)
Drawing of MAMA XI 69 (Sebaste 5: 1956-71)
For dedications to a deity and to a village community, compare SEG 16, 753 (Dorylaion): δόντες καὶ τεμένους... τῷ θεῷ καὶ τῇ κώμῃ. The village of Babdalai is not otherwise attested; in the Barrington Atlas (Map 62 C4) it is located at Hacım, to the west of Samatlar, on the authority of T. Drew-Bear. For the termination -δαλαι, compare the deity Μητὴρ Σιμιδαληνή in eastern Lydia (TAM V 1, 76: Saittai), whose epiklesis is likely to derive from a toponym *Σιμιδαλα/αι.