ΤΩ, ΑΔΕΚΤΟΡΙ ΑΡΤΥΡΟΤΟΞΩ ΘΠΑΩ? ΑΔΟΜΕ?Ω, ΠΑΤΑΤΩ
This is what a dutch friend of mine said a friend of his saw in an inscription. I bet he just misunderstood some of the letters and I can make one or two guesses about some of those but on the whole I’m at my wits end. Any ideas guys?
Going with Bert’s rooster suggestion and trying out a number of different combinations of what the letters could be, I came up with
τῷ ἀλέκτο?ι ἀ?γυ?ότοξῳ θηλῶν ᾀδομένῳ, ἡλιάζω
The first part kind of makes sense but not the last word, and that one’s just a complete guess. I also found ΗΛΙΑΤΩ, but that makes even less sense to me.
Just to add, I’m not really sure that my ΘΗΛΩ? makes sense either.
hi, this is an inscription so a dedication is likely, it looks like an apollo one but i can’t be sure, someone who studies epigraphy could crack this. generally the spacings could be wrong, i know iotas are often left out and there are abbreviations in all the inscriptions i’ve read, and so possibly the gist is
τῶι Ἀ.(πόλλωνι) δέκτο?ι ἀ?γυ?οτόξωι (ἀνέ)θ.(ηκε) πα(ι)ῶνα δομένωι …
if someone grabs an epigraphy book they could probably sort this out quickly i think, cheers, chad.
bert, modus, chad thank you!
Chad it really makes sense! Now I feel (even more) stupid for not thinking about it at all!
hi irene, nah don’t trust my guess, i don’t study epigraphy, and i know how long it took to learn to read papyri… there’ll be an edited version of this inscription somewhere… good luck cracking it 