Honours for Asklapos, priest of Apollo
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source date: First century BCE
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Ἄσκλαπον Ἀσκλάπω ἱαριτεύοντα τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος ἀρετᾶς ἕνεκα καὶ εὐνοίας ἅς ἔχων διατελεῖ ἔς τε τὸς κοινὸς εὐεργέτας Ῥωμαίος καὶ ἐς τὰν πόλιν καὶ ἐς τὸς ἱαρὲς καὶ τᾶς ποτὶ τὸς θεὸς χάριν εὐσεβείας οἱ ἱαρὲς τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος [...]

Apparatus

Translations

Una statua di Asclepio, figlio di Asclepio, sacerdote di Apollo, per la virtù e la benevolenza, che con costanza adopera verso i comuni benefattori romani, e verso la città e i sacerdoti, e per la sua pietà verso gli dei, i sacerdoti di Apollo posero.

Asklapos son of Asklapos, serving as priest of Apollo: because of his virtue and his goodwill which he maintained both to our common benefactors, the Romans and to the City and to the priests and because of his piety towards the Gods, the priests of Apollo set up his statue

Commentary

Franz in CIG proposed to date between 96 BCE and the provincialisation of Cyrene; it seems unlikely that the description of Romans as "common benefactors" referred to the suppression of the pirates in 67 BCE, but it seems to occur earlier elsewhere: so in Lydia, 133-130 BCE SEG 34,1198 (PHI 277230); by the Amphyctyons at Delphi, 117-112 BCE, CID 4,120 (PHI 303315) l.27, and in a decree found in Attica, of c.166 BCE, IG II²,1224 (PHI 3439), l.9. . Another Cyrenean honoured locally (but probably not by the city) for his favourable attitude to Rome appears in C.688.