Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Scythopolis-Beth Shean, 144-5 CE. Octagonal Altar. Votive

Octagonal

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Engraved

Remnants of Reddish Paint One of the faces (57x14 cm) 144-5 CE. Jordan Valley Scythopolis-Beth Shean In secondary use in an Arab building at the foot of the tell. City Center - a building erected on the collonnaded avenue leading from the Northeast, near the intersection with the street coming from the Southeast

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Initial Entry Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΑΓΑΘΗΙ ΤΥΧΗΙ ΔΙΙΑΚΡΑΙW ΘΕΟΓΕΝΗ ΤWΒΙΟΥ ΑΝΕΘΗ ΚΕΝ

ἈγαθῇΤύχῇ.Διὶ ἈκραίῳΘεογενὴΤοβίουἀνέθηκεν.

With good fortune. Theogene (daughter) of Tobias dedicated (this altar) to Zeus Akraios.

The inscription is not dated, but a second altar discovered in 1989 in the area of the basilica seem to contain the name of the same dedicator, and it bears the date 208 of the city era, corresponding to 144/5 CE. If the identification is accepted, a similar date can be surmised also for the present inscription.

Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῇ. Διὶ Ἀκραίῳ Θεογενὴ Τοβίου ἀνέθηκεν.

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