12. Dedication to Hera by Dasous

Description

• Monument: votive plaque; relief: Hera standing, holding phiale above a burning altar; marble
• Dimensions: 0.25 × 0.145 × 0.035
• Text: on the altar and below the relief, slightly incised
• Letters: 0.09 (below the relief); 0.05 (on the altar)
• Date: third century AD
• Found: Plovdiv (Philippopolis), Osam street
• Now: Plovdiv, Archaeological museum, inv. n. II-275.
• Text Category: private, dedicatory

Publication

• Bibliography: G. Mihailov, Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria repertae, vol. V, Serdicae, 1997, no. 5438 bis; N. Sharankov, New Thracian personal names and divine epithets – Acta musei Varnaensis, V, 2007, p. 425-427, no. 3.
• Editorial: The text was encoded following the edition of Sharankov.
• Publisher: Text by N. Sharankov.

Text

(on the altar) Εὐ- χήν. (below the relief) Δασους κυρίᾳ Ἥρᾳ {Ηρ} δῶρον̣.

Translation

Votive offering. Dasus [dedicated this] gift to Lady Hera.

Оброк. Дасус [посвети този] дар на Господарката Хера.

Apparatus

Ligatures: l. 2: ΗΝ; l. 3: ΗΡ, ΗΡ, ΔΩΡ.
Mihailov, who had seen only a photograph the inscription, repeated the text of the first publication by E. Kesyakova: Δ . . . Ο̣ . . . Υ . . . Ρ. The entire text was read by Sharankov.

Photographs

Commentary

The name Dasous (feminine?) is probably Thracian, attested here for the first time.

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