A fragment of a small votive plaque to Zeus Hypsistos. The Hypsistarians were a cult that seems to have existed from the early 2nd through to the late 4th or early 5th century AD. Much of the archaeological evidence for this cult is small votives such as this one.

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    Bibliography

    Hesperia 29 (1960), p. 63, no. 107, pl. 20.

    Agora XVIII, no. V619.

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    Date
    2nd C. AD
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    Location
    Athens, Greece
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