Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Scythopolis-Beth Shean, 141/2 CE. Votive inscription on an altar found in the Roman basilica.

Hexagonal limestone altar decorated on all sides with Dionysian reliefs found broken in several pieces in front of the apse of the Roman basilica, in its original place. The inscription is set in a tabula ansata, under a mask of Dionysus, in the lower part of what was probably the front of the altar.

Dionysian Reliefs On all sides of altar

141/142 CE Jordan Valley Scythopolis-Beth Shean

Altar found in its original place, hulf-sunken in the ground, in front of the apse of the Roman basilica.

 On the site as of March 6th 2013

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

 Initial Entry Re-Entry Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Edited display date adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value. added images added image Zev Radovan Zev Radovan Chris Zeichmann

ΑΓΑΘΗΙΤΥΧΗΙ ΘΕWΔΙΟΝΥϹWΙ ΚΤΙϹΤΗΙΤWΙΚΥ ΡΙWΙϹΕΛΕΥΚΟϹ ΑΡΙϹΤWΝΟϹΧΑ ΡΙϹΤΗΡΙΟΝΕΤΕΙΕ̅Ϲ̅

Ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ. Θεῷ Διονύσῳ κτίστῃ τῷ κυρίῳ Ϲέλευκος Ἀρίστωνος χαριστήριον. Ἒτει εσʹ.

With good fortune. Seleucus son of Ariston (dedicated this) as a thanks offering to the god Dionysus, the lord founder. Year 205.

Ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ. Θεῷ Διονύσῳ κτίστῃ τῷ κυρίῳ Ϲέλευκος Ἀρίστωνος χαριστήριον. Ἒτει εσʹ

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