Marble krater with dedicatory inscription to Zeus Thenatas



Marble krater with dedicatory inscription to Zeus Thenatas

Ε386
Stone (Fine white marble)
Mended from three fragments, about 1/3 preserved
Preserved Height: 32 cm. Width: 29.5 cm. Thickness: 16-32 cm.Height of letters: 3.3-4.1cm.
Amnissos
Sanctuary of Zeus Thenatas
Hellenistic period:
2nd-1st c. BC:
Gallery:
XV
Case:
158
Exhibition thematic unit:
Geometric - Archaic - Classical period (10th-4th c. BC). Cities and Sanctuaries
Sanctuaries
Description
Fragment of a large marble krater preserving a false handle and part of a two-line dedicatory inscription on the outer surface of the body. It briefly refers to the dedicator Ermeros and the honoured deity, Zeus Thenatas. This is a unique epigraphical testimony allowing the identification of the sanctuary of Amnisos. The text is as follows: [Τηνὶ] Θενάτᾳ [Ἑρ]μέρως. Translation: To Zeus Thenatas Ermeros (dedicated the vase).
Bibliography:
S. Marinatos, "Ανασκαφαί εν Αμνισώ της Κρήτης", Πρακτικά της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 1934, 132. C. Davaras - O. Masson, "Cretica : Amnisos et ses inscriptions", Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 107 (1983), 389,1. M. Bile, Le dialecte cretois ancien: étude de la langue des inscriptions postérieures aux IC, Paris 1998, 62, no. 87. A. Chaniotis, "Die Inschriften von Amnisos", in J. Schäfer (ed.), Amnisos nach den archäologischen, historischen und epigraphischen Zeugnissen des Altertums und der Neuzeit, Berlin 1992, 318-9, I13. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 33.717.
Author:
K. S.


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