Dedication of cult statue of Zeus
created: Transcription from fragments and from pre-war photographs (Reynolds).
source date: CE 185-192
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], 6, pp. 92-93 nd fig. 4, whence [...] 1954.42, [...], 1953.251; republished [...], B, pp. 34-35, whence [...] 17.802, [...] 324415, [...] 1960.261; mentioned [...], 223.

ὑπὲρ τᾶς Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκω Αὐρηλίω Κομμόδω Ἀντωνείνω Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστῶ σωτηρίας καὶ νείκας καὶ αἰωνίας διαμονᾶς [...]ς τὸ ἄγαλμα τῶ Διὸς Σ[...] ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων τᾶι γλυκυτάται πατρίδι ἔδωκεν καὶ ἀνέθηκεν

[...] Μένανδρος κ[...]

[...] Τιβερι Κλαυδι[...]

[...] Κλαυδία Φαυνίλλα Α [...]

[...] Κλαυδι Ἰασον[...]

[...]οικλ[...]

[...]ναα[...]

[...]ον[...]

[...]συν[...]

[...]ασιν[...]

[...]ΗΝ[...]

[...]τοιπ[...]

Apparatus

Translations

On behalf of the safety [and victory and eternal] permanence of the Emperor Caesar M(arcus) Aurelius Com[modus An]toninus Pius Felix Augustus [? so-and-so gave] and dedicated the statue of Zeus S[- ] from his own resources to his sweetest fatherland.

Commentary

The date is between 185 when Commodus became Felix, and his death in 192.

b. The nominative must denote the donor and/or dedicator. The following Κ has no superscript bar and is not therefore part of Κλ(αύδιος), but may well be the initial of the patronymic, or from καί.

c. might be the praenomen and nomen of the person named in b.

e. Perhaps Tiberius Claudius Jason Magnus priest of Apollo between 176 and 180, possibly mentioned here as the eponymous of the year.