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Votive bomos dedicated by Iason to the Highest God

Type of monument:
Votive bomos.
Location:
Burunkuyu (Perta): on the steps of a house.
Description:
Very rough marble bomos.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.38; W. 0.17 (upper moulding), 0.15 (shaft), 0.17 (base); Th. 0.14 (upper moulding), 0.12 (shaft), 0.16 (base); letters 0.020-0.030.
Record:
Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/185).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Third or fourth century AD.
 
 

Θεῷ
Ὑψίσ-
τῳ
εὐχὴ
5Ἰάσω-
ν
ὑπὲ̣[ρ]
ὑ̣γ̣[εί]-
[ας (?)].
To the highest god, in fulfillment of a vow, Iason, for his h[ealth (?)]

The lettering is extremely crude, and the restoration in lines 7-8 is not certain. For the cult of Theos Hypsistos in Lykaonia, cf. I.Konya 38; I.Konya 39; SEG 43, 989; Metcalfe 2009: 78, no.2 (all Konya). Attestations of the cult are collected by Mitchell 1999a and Mitchell 2010; cf. also MAMA XI 31 (1954/18: Eumeneia). For the nominative εὐχή (relatively rare), see BE 1973, 297; Drew-Bear 1976: 253.

Illustrations:

Squeeze of MAMA XI 316 (Perta 11: 1956-185)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 316 (Perta 11: 1956-185)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 316 (Perta 11: 1956-185)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 316 (Perta 11: 1956-185)