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 Timuchos.

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

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 Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, (1879), no. III

C. Michel, Recueil d’inscriptions grecques (Bruxelles, 1900), No. 1151

Web Links

Greek text, from PHI

Image(s)

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