Modern scholarly approaches to Lindos anagraphe, a 1st century BC inscription recording votive offerings at the Rhodian temple of Athena Lindia, have used the anachronistic term forgery to refer to its chronologically impossible Heroic Era dedications. Using Paul Veynes theory of sincere forgery as an interpretive framework, this thesis evaluates the epigraphic invention of these votives according to Hellenistic rather than modern definitions of forgery. Chapter One reviews previous approaches to the text and problematizes the use of the term forgery to describe it. Chapter Two contextualizes the anagraphe within the ancient practice of displaying Heroic Era votives in temple settings and evaluates this practice vis--vis ancient definitions of forgery. Chapter Three uses Hans Joachim Gehrkes theory of intentional history to explore how the anagraphes Heroic Era votives, when considerd as products of sincere forgery, grant new insight into the socio-political, intellectual, and religious contexts of the Hellenistic Rhodian milieu in which the text was created. An epilogue compares the anagraphe to the recent case of the Irua-Valeia forgeries in Spains Basque Country, highlighting the contrast between ancient and modern perceptions of the technique of epigraphic invention.