[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c9.s2.220 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.220 The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.220 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.220](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.220) ³ The operative word at Susa, ἀφιέρωσεν—‘consecrate’ instead of ‘dedicate’—seems unknown in Greece; it is not given in Calderini’s table, \*op. cit.\* p. 438, though on p. 442 he quotes a formula at Chaeronea, τὰν ἀνάθεσιν ποιούμενος, in which ἀφιέρωσιν is sometimes substituted for ἀνάθεσιν, and though occasionally in ἀνάθεσις-manumissions the slave is expressed to become ἱερὸς καὶ ἐλεύθερος instead of ἐλεύθερος alone. Perhaps ἀφιέρωσεν has no especial significance; but might it not be a relic of the old Oriental form at Susa? - [Previous: c9.s2.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.219) - [Next: c9.s2.221](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.221) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.220](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.220) · Pramāṇa