Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 Bshe 0027

Beth Shean, 29-30 or 129-130 CE. Limestone Basis. Votive.

49 63 23

The right side and the lower right corner of the stone are broken, so that the beginning and the end of each line are missing.

29-30 CE. or 129-130 CE. Jordan Valley Scythopolis-Beth Shean Discovered in secondary use in an Arab house in Old Beth Shean

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Initial Entry Edited Normalized objectDesc/@ana Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Corrected bibliographic reference adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΧΗΙΕΤΟΥϹΓ ΩΙΔΙΙΒΑΚ/ ΑΙΑϹΝΙΚΟ ΛΙΝΟΥΚΑΤ ΝΑΟΝΕΚΤ ΑΝΕΘΗΚ

Ἀγαθῇ τύχηι. Ἔτους γϙ τῷ Ὑψίστῳ Διὶ Βακ Αἴας Νικο λίνου κατ’ εὐχὴν τὸν ναὸν ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκεν

With good luck. Year 93 (?). Aias son of Nica.., following a vow, dedicated the shrine to Zeus Bac.. at his own expenses.

The script is square, with classic omega and use of iota adscriptum. The modesty of the inscribed basis contrasts with the literal meaning of the inscription. Did Aias indeed erect a temple? It seems more likely that his votive offering was an aedicula or even a miniature shrine, that would have stood on the basis itself.

Ἀγαθῆι τύχηι. Ἔτους γϙ τῷ Ὑψίστῳ Διὶ Βακ Αἴας Νικο λίνου κατ’ εὐχὴν τὸν ναὸν ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκεν

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