IG XI 4 1146: Marble Altar
Modern Publication(s): Marshall III; Hicks 1; IG XI 4 1146
Brief description: Circular altar of white marble, dedicated by three agoranomoi to Aphrodite Timouchos.
Attributes
Inscription Type: Dedication
Object Type: Altar
Material: White marble
Original Location: Delos (based on the board of three agoranomoi listed in the inscription). (Hicks)
Provenance: Presumed (by Hicks) to have originally been in the Aphrodision, which stood within the temenos of Apollo.
Date: c.200 BC. (Dated by style of lettering.)
Dimensions: H. 1 ft 7½ in; Original diameter 1 ft 10½ in. (Hicks)
Layout: Nine lines of text.
Writing: Inscribed
Condition: 'Completely but roughly hollowed out and employed as a puteal or crown of a well: seven or eight deep grooves have been worn by the rope in the rim of the marble, which is itself worn smooth by long use. One side is now broken.' (Hicks)
Decoration: Ornamented all round with ox-heads, fillets and festoons.
Collection
Location: Leeds City Museum.
Collector(s): Part of a collection purchased by Mr Benjamin Gott and Mr Rawson when travelling from Smyrna through the islands to Athens in 1815. Gott died of a fever at Piraeus, and the marbles then passed to Mr Rawson. They were kept at Rawson’s house in Halifax for several years, during which time six of the inscriptions were copied and sent to Böckh for inclusion in CIG. On Rawson’s death in 1845 or 1846, Mr Rawson’s brother, Mr S. Rawson, sold the marbles to Mr William Gott (brother of B. Gott). W. Gott then passed the marbles to his son, Rev. Dr. John Gott, who presented them with a few exceptions (Nos. 1-6, Hicks) to the Museum at Leeds. (Hicks)
Date collected: Collected by Rawson in 1815.
Accession or catalogue number: LEEDM.D.1967.1231
Translation
The agoranomoi
Kallaischros
son of Moiragenes,
Dionysios
son of Demeas
Socharmos
son of Socharmos
(dedicate this) to Aphrodite
Timouchos.
Bibliography
E. L. Hicks, 'The Collection of Ancient Marbles at Leeds,' JHS 11 (1890), 255-270, no. 1
J. Marshall, 'Observations on certain Greek Inscriptions in the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society', The 59th Report of the Council of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (1879), 13-19, no. III.
C. Michel, Recueil d’inscriptions grecques (Bruxelles, 1900), no. 1151
The 44th Report of the Council of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (1864), 11-12, 28.
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