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Inscribed Quadrangular Altar in the Manisa Museum, photograph scanned from Malay. (From Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum, fig. 22.)
Inscribed Quadrangular Altar: Votive Altar Dedication to Zeus Driktes by Menekration
- Date
- In the area north of the Gygaean Lake the Sullan era (year 230 = 145/46 AD) was used as well as the Actian (year 230 = 199/200 AD); see Leschhorn, Ären, pp. 505–6., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
- Museum Inventory No.
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa (M14 No. 437)
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Altar, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἔτους σλ´, μη(νὸς) Ἀρ- τεμισί- 4 ου ς´· Μενε- κρατίων Δ- εὶ Δρικτῃ εὐχήν.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year 230, on the sixth day of the month Artemisios. Menekration (dedicates this altar) to Zeus Driktes as ex-voto.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Gygaean Lake
- Findspot
- Probably from the region around the Gygaean Lake.
- Description
Quadrangular altar with moldings at the top and bottom.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.36, W. 0.18, Th. 0.16, H. of letters 0.015.
- Comments
1–4 Ἔτους σλ´, μη(νὸς) Ἀρτεμισίου ς´: I read the last numeral from the photograph; it was omitted in Malay.
4–5 No. 666, 11 (93/94 or 147/48 AD) mentions a Menekration who was a son of the hereditary priest of Zeus Drittes (= Driktes).
5–6 For Zeus Driktes see no. 318.
7 EYXHN: the letters YX seem to be corrections of an earlier carving, a vertical stroke of which is preserved on the right side of the X.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 48, no. 56, pl. 9, fig. 22.
- Author
- GP