Inscriptions: Votive inscription by Sextus on an altar to Belus

Identification

Reference as:	MPL00806
Title	Votive inscription by Sextus on an altar to Belus
Trismegistos-No.	213209

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Vasio Vocontiorum
Find Context	Vaison-la-Romaine, hill of Puymin, before 1810.
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, National Archaeological Museum
Inventory number
Current Location Details	Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée d'Archéologie nationale.
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Object Details

Object Type	altar
Material	sandstone
State of Preservation	complete
Dimensions	width: 55.0 cm height: 107.0 cm depth: 46.0 cm
Letter Size in cm (min)	0.0
Letter Size in cm (max)	0.0
Execution Technique	chiselled
Religion	Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence Carmen
Layout Types (Verse)
Centered
Scriptio Continua in verse part yes
Abbreviations in verse part no
Verse Line Correspondence No

Prose Verse Presence	Carmen
Layout Types (Verse)	Centered
Scriptio Continua in verse part	yes
Abbreviations in verse part	no
Verse Line Correspondence	No

Text

Function	dedication / votive inscription
Language(s)	Greek-Latin
Verse Type(s)	Elegiac couplet
Rhythmisation	Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

Front

ΕΙΘΥΝΤΗΡΙΤΥΧΗΣ
ΒΗΛΩ
ΣΕΞΣΤΟΣΘΕΤΟΒΩ
ΜΟΝ
5ΤΩΝΕΝΑΠΑΜΕΙΑ
ΜΝΗΣΑΜΕΝΟΣ
ΛΟΓΙΩΝ

Back

BELVS
FORTVNAERECTOR
MENTISQVEMAGIS
TER
5ARAGAVDEBIT
QVAMDEDIT
ETVOLVIT

Front

εἰθυντῆρι τύχης
Βήλῳ
Σέξστος θέτο βω-
μόν,
5τῶν ἐν Ἀπαμείᾳ
μνησάμενος
λογίων.

Back

Belus
fortunae rector
mentisque magis-
ter
5ara gaudebit
quam dedit
et voluit.

Front

Back

Apparatus

Text follows CLE 00872. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

Main Translation

Translation	Front: To the master of fate, Belos, Sextus has erected this altar, in memory of the oracles pronounced at Apamea. Back: Belus, the master of fate and of the spirit, will rejoice at this altar which he donated and wanted.
Citation	Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Belo, señor de la fortuna y guía del pensamiento, gozará
ahora con este altar que él mismo regaló y deseó. (Spanish, C. Fernández Martínez)

Prosopographical Information

Name Belus
Gender Male
Role Dedicatee
Name Sextus
Gender Male
Origin Unknown
Role Dedicator

Name	Belus
Gender	Male
Role	Dedicatee

Name	Sextus
Gender	Male
Origin	Unknown
Role	Dedicator

Further Information

Comment

The dedicatee Belus was a deified Babylonian king associated to Zeus and Jupiter.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	151 AD
Date (To)	250 AD
Date (Criteria)	palaeography

Bibliography

CIL 12, 01277.
IG 14, 02482.
CLE 00872
IGR 01, 00014.
J. Balty, L'oracle d'Apamée, AC 50 (1/2), 1981, 5-14 - AE 1983 🔗 link
AE 1983, 00673.
C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina I, Madrid 1998, 421, nr. 872. (Spanish translation of the Latin text) 🔗 link
L. Wierschowski, Fremde in Gallien - 'Gallier' in der Fremde. Die epigraphisch bezeugte Mobilität in, von und nach Gallien vom 1. bis 3. Jh. n. Chr. (Texte-Übersetzungen-Kommentare), Stuttgart 2001, 155. 🔗 link
M. Provost, J. Meffre, Vaison-la-romaine et ses campagnes, Carte Archéologique de la Gaule 84 (1), Paris 2003, 289. 🔗 link
J. Decourt, Inscriptions grecques de la France, Lyon 2004, 87. 🔗 link
EDCS-08500967 🔗 link
HD002450 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link

Images

Greek votive inscription to Belus.
(c) EDCS
Latin votive inscription to Belus.
(c) EDCS

Editing History

Created	2025-03-24, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status	Confirmed
Import Notice	Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T11:58:43, ID there: HD002450

Revisions

by Unknown
at 2024-07-11 11:58
by Eric Andreas Kunz
at 2024-07-27 10:37
by Eric Andreas Kunz
at 2024-07-27 10:44
by Eric Andreas Kunz
at 2024-07-27 10:44
by Anna Pokorny
at 2025-01-29 14:49
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-19 16:53
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-19 17:26
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-19 17:47
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-20 08:21
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-20 08:44
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-20 08:49
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-21 13:36
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-21 13:56
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-21 13:57
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-21 15:12
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 15:24
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 15:26
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 15:29
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 16:07
by Chiara Cenati
at 2025-03-24 18:07

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