10. Dedication to Dionysus by Amaistas, son of Medistas

Description

Monument: base for a statue or relief, dowel-hole on the top with iron pin fixed with lead; syenite
Dimensions: 0.36 × 0.88 × 0.71
Text: on the upper surface
Letters: 0.035 – 0.05
Date: first half of the third century BC
Found: Seuthopolis, near an altar in the agora
Now: Kazanlak, Historical museum
Text Category: private, dedicatory

Bibliography: G. Mihailov, Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria repertae, vol. III, 2, Serdicae, 1964, no. 1732.
Editorial: The text was encoded following the edition of Mihailov with correction by N. Sharankov.
Publisher: Text by N. Sharankov.

Αμαιστας Μηδιστα ἰερητεύσας Διονύσ[ωι].

Amaistas, son of Medistas, after having been a priest, [dedicated] to Dionysus.

Аместас, син на Медистас, след като беше жрец, [посвети] на Дионис.

L. 2: ἱερατεύσας Mihailov (who probably accidentally transformed the Ionic form into Attic)

Image (2005)

The name and the patronymic of the priest are Thracian. Note the Ionic form of the verb ἰερητεύω (Attic ἱερατεύω).