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Votive altar to an uncertain deity
Type of monument
Votive altar.
Location
Göçü (Konya): in a house.
Description
Upper part of altar in blue-flecked white marble; broken above, below and behind. First surviving line of inscription between two damaged acroteria; lines 2 and 3 on moulding.
Dimensions
Ht. 0.12+;
W. 0.22;
Th. 0.90+;
letters 0.012-0.017.
Record
Squeeze; MB notebook copy; photograph (1957/43).
Publication
None.
Date
Roman imperial period.
edition
tracesβηνῷ εὐ-
χὴνωΚ Λουκίου
To ...benos, in fulfillment of a vow... of Lucius...
Commentary
This monument is a small votive altar dedicated to a deity whose cult epithet ended in -βηνός; Anatolian cult epikleseis of this kind very often derive from toponyms (e.g. Artemis Λαγβηνή at Λάγβη in the Milyas; Meter Zizimmene at Zizimma, modern Sizma, on the territory of Ikonion).