Neue Weihungen an Zeus im Museum von Eskişehir

Year 2025, Issue: XXXIII, 267 - 289, 22.03.2025

Nalan Eda Akyürek Şahin , Hüseyin Uzunoğlu

Abstract

This article analyses new votive inscriptions dedicated to Zeus preserved in the Eskişehir Archaeological Museum or in private collections registered with the Museum. However, some of the inscriptions are actually tombstones and were also dedicated to Zeus in various epitheths (nos. 11, 14). In addition, some new inscriptions found in the field and not brought to the museum are also presented in the appendix. Zeus appears in the inscriptions with names such as Zeus Koulamtenos, Zeus Olemeanos, Zeus Petarenos, Zeus Hekatostites, Zeus Melenos, Zeus Sarnendenos, Zeus Dagoustes, Zeus Korenos. Although the locations of many of the inscriptions are unknown, it would not be wrong to assume that Zeus was worshipped with these different epithets, mainly in the territory of Dorylaion or Nakoleia. However, many small votive stones offered to Zeus Petarenos are mostly found in a local sanctuary around the village of Kurudere in Afyon. Zeus Sarnendenos, on the other hand, is a deity documented mainly in north-eastern Phrygia (particularly in the Choria Considiana region).

Keywords

Eskişehir Museum , Dedications , Grave-inscriptions , Zeus , Dorylaion , Nakoleia.

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