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ID AXON259
Author(s)Francesca Giovagnorio
Date21-3-2022
TitleDedica votiva da Tebe Ftiotide
Abstract (max. 650 characters with spaces included)

L'epigrafe si colloca  su una stele su cui è incisa, a bassorilievo, un'edicoletta composta da due colonne e un'architrave che ospita, al centro, un rilievo raffigurante due trecce di capelli. La dedica riporta nome e patronimico di due fratelli offerenti, Philombrotos e Aphthonetos, corredato di e, di seguito, il nome della divinità destinataria dell'offerta, al dativo. Il dono votivo proviene da Tebe Ftiotide in Tessaglia ed è destinato a Poseidone, il cui culto nella regione era connesso ai riti di passaggio all'età adulta. La scelta di realizzare ed offrire la stele è motivata dalla volontà di conferire durevolezza e concretezza ad un dono (di capelli veri) che altrimenti non si sarebbe conservato, considerando la sua deperibilità. 

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Object typeStele, votiva con bassorilievo di due colonne con architrave.; marble; 36,83 × 34,29 cm. Complete. La stele presenta un bassorilievo con due grosse trecce di capelli, all'interno di un'edicoletta che ospita, nell'architrave, l'iscrizione.
Chronology2nd century BC (1st half).
Type of inscriptionDedication (private).
Findspot and circumstances
Greece, Phthiotis, Thebai.
Preservation placeGreat Britain, London, British Museum. Donata dal Colonnello William Martin Leake nel 1839, nr. inv. 1839,0806.4.
Script
  • Structure: prose, l'iscrizione è disposta su una sola linea, con ductus destrorso.
  • Execution technique: engraved.
  • Special letters: mymy; omicronomicron; sigmasigma.
  • Paleography: my regolare e rettangolare; omicron di dimensioni più piccole rispetto alle altre lettere; sigma quattro tratti. Si nota inoltre una leggera apicatura delle lettere: soprattutto in alpha, eta, my, rho, sigma, chi.
  • Arrangement: left-to-right.
Lemma

Millingen 1826, pl. 16, fig. 2 [CIG I n.1769; Leake 1835, 361]; I.British Mus. II nr. 163 [Smith 1892, nr. 798; SGDI II.3 nr. 1463]; IG IX.2 146 [Arbanitopulos 1909, 176; Guarducci, Epigrafia greca III 66-7; Pfohl 1980, nr. 61; Guarducci, Epigrafia greca² 271-2; Draycott 2017, 84-5]; Rouse 1976, 243-4.

Text 

Φιλόμβροτος Ἀφθόνητος Δεινομάχου Ποσειδῶν[ι].

Translation
Philombrotos (e) Afthonetos figli di Deinomachos (dedicarono) a Posidone.
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Figures
Stele di Philombrotos e Aphthonetos. Immagine da: www.britishmuseum.org/
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