A Good Works Translation from Akyürek Şahin 2022, Nos. 1-2
Two small steles from Bozan near Alpu in the Eskişehir region preserve short Greek vows to Zeus Narenos. The cult is documented in north-west Galatia and in Dacian mining contexts, making these small dedications useful witnesses to the movement of local Galatian-Anatolian cults.
Translation
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Asklepios, son of Apollonios, to Zeus Narenos, as a vow.
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Asklepiades, for his children, to Zeus Narenos, as a vow.
Translation Note
Both texts use the same compact votive grammar. The deity appears in the dative as Διὶ Ναρηνῷ, "to Zeus Narenos." The final accusative εὐχήν marks the object as a vow or votive offering, with the dedicatory verb left implied. In the second text, ὑπὲρ τέκνων means "for the children" or "on behalf of the children"; the translation keeps the family-vow force visible without adding a verb that is not written.
Object Note
The source publication records both steles as coming from Bozan near Alpu in the Eskişehir region. The first stele is broken at the head and shoulders of the Zeus relief; the second preserves Zeus with a phiale, eagle, and grape clusters. The article places the cult of Zeus Narenos especially in north-west Galatia, around Beylikova and Mihalıççık, and notes related dedications from Alburnus Maior in Dacia, probably carried by migrants from the same Galatian region. The texts are Greek, not Galatian, but the cult route belongs to the Galatian-Anatolian evidence lane.
Colophon
This page translates Akyürek Şahin 2022, nos. 1-2 from Greek for the Celtic continental expansion of the Good Work Library. The two inscriptions are kept together as a coherent source cluster because they come from the same find context, honor the same local Galatian-Anatolian Zeus, and share the same short votive form.
Compiled and formatted for the Good Work Library by the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.
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Source Text: Akyürek Şahin 2022, Nos. 1-2, Two Votive Steles to Zeus Narenos
Greek source text from N. Eda Akyürek Şahin, Zeus Narenos - Zwei neue Weihungen im Museum von Eskişehir, LIBRI VIII (2022), 149-157, nos. 1-2. Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.
Akyürek Şahin 2022, nos. 1-2 source texts:
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Ἀσκλήπιος Ἀπο-
λλωνίου Διὶ Ναρηνῷ εὐχήν.
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Ἀσκληπιάδης ὑπὲρ
τέκνων Διὶ Ναρηνῷ εὐχήν.
Continuous source text:
Ἀσκλήπιος Ἀπολλωνίου Διὶ Ναρηνῷ εὐχήν.
Ἀσκληπιάδης ὑπὲρ τέκνων Διὶ Ναρηνῷ εὐχήν.
Source-close rendering:
Asklepios, son of Apollonios, to Zeus Narenos, as a vow.
Asklepiades, for his children, to Zeus Narenos, as a vow.
Source Colophon
The 2022 LIBRI article PDF was captured from the journal site on 2026-05-13 and inspected in the Celtic source-capture archive; OCR text was captured beside it for checking. Source page: https://www.libridergi.org/2022/lbr-0320; PDF route: http://www.libridergi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/lbr.202232-1.pdf. The source-close English renderings are New Tianmu Anglican Church Good Works Translations made from the published Greek inscription texts.
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