THE VOTIVE INSCRIPTION OF ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ ΡΑΣΔΟY FOUND IN NOZRINA
THE VOTIVE INSCRIPTION OF ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ ΡΑΣΔΟY FOUND IN NOZRINA

Summary/Abstract: Back in 2008, a marble relief votive to an unknown deity was unearthed on the archaeological site called Grobljište in the village Nozrina, not far from the town Aleksinac in East Central Serbia. The relief was found broken into three segments and fragmented. The Greek votive inscription is visible on the bottom part. These fragments are currently kept at the National museum in Kruševac, as a part of their Collection of antiquities at the Department of archaeology. The deity depicted on the relief was interpreted by researchers as “Sol-Helios (which is considered to be identical to Apollo)”. This votive relief and the personal name of its dedicant, ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ, was published in the literature, but the inscription on the relief was left out. Originally, the inscription was not dated. It is written in the Greek majuscule cursive, and in accordance to the shapes of the inscribed letters, this form of the alphabet could be most approximately (we underline most approximately) assigned to the end or the second half of the 1st c. A. D.. In this way, the inscription, that is the votive relief itself, might also be most approximately (we underline most approximately) dated to the end or the second half of the 1st c. A. D., and thus the Greek language of the inscription might be the Hellenistic koiné.

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