File:Stele with name of the worshippers of Zeus Hypsistos, from Pydna, Archaeological Museum, Dion (6930424610).jpg

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The names Hypsianistai, Hypsianoi first occur in Gregory of Nazianzus (Orat., xviii, 5) and the name Hypsistianoi in Gregory of Nyssa (Contra Eunom., II), i. e. about A. D. 374, but a great number of votive tablets, inscriptions and oracles of Didymos and Klaros establish beyond doubt that the cult of the Hypsistos (Hypsistos, with the addition of Theos 'god' or Zeus or Attis, but frequently without addition) as the sole God was widespread in the countries adjacent to the Bosphorus (cf. Acts 16:17, "these men are servants of the most high God" — oracle of the pythonissa at Philippi).

Contemporary Hellenistic use of ὕψιστος (hýpsistos) as a religious term appears to be derived from and compatible with the term as it had much earlier appeared in the Septuagint. (Greek ύψίστος translating Hebrew elyon עליון English "highest".)
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Stele with name of the worshippers of Zeus Hypsistos, from Pydna, Archaeological Museum, Dion

Author Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
Camera location40° 08′ 12.8″ N, 22° 27′ 11.91″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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