Dedication of two Dioscuri and their shrine
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Second to third centuries CE
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[...], 31, p. 210-211, and fig. 69, p. 209, whence [...], 1932, p. 211, [...] 9.121, [...] 323975; [...], 183; cf. [...], 38; mentioned by [...], on C.224; mentioned [...], 199.

Μᾶρκοϲ Ἰούλιοϲ Κοκκηιανὸϲ Πειθαγόραϲ Πλάτων τοὺϲ Διοϲκούρουϲ ϲὺν τῷ ναιδίῳ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκεν

Translations

M(arkos) Ioulios Kokkeianos M(arcus) Julius Cocceianus Pythagoras Plato set up the Dioscuri with the little temple, from his own resources.

Commentary

For the building, see Oliverio, Scavi, p. 30f. One of the accompanying statues was found, C.224.

Oliverio dated this text and C.224 in the third century, Traversari thought it possible to attribute both statues and inscriptions to the first half of the third century.

The dedicator is also named in C.224, cut on the base of a statue of one of the Dioscuri, and C.232, line 1 where he is probably described as ἱαριτεύων. The cognomina suggest philosophical interests in his family, cf. C.93, line 10.