Building inscription for the temple of Hekate
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 106-7
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Bibliography

[...], 1, 113f., fig. 3w, whence [...] 1929.8, [...] 9.101, [...] 323955, with [...] 12, whence [...], 1941.179; discussed [...] 52 [...], 104, [...], 107-109; mentioned [...], 207.

Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ Ἀρτάμιδι [...] ὑπὲρ τᾶς τῶ Αὐτοκράτορος Νέρβα Τραιανῶ Καίσαρος Σεβαστῶ Γερμανικῶ Δακικῶ σωτηρίας καὶ διαμονᾶς καὶ τῶ σύνπαντος αὐτῶ οἴκω τὸν ναὸν καὶ τὰς στοὰς ἐκτὸς τῶ [...]τω οἱ ἱαρὲς ἐκ τᾶν τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος προσόδων [...] ἐπεσκεύασαν διὰ Γάϊω Ποστομίω Ὀπτάτω ἱαρεῦς Ἀπόλλωνος καλλιέτευς ἐφ’ ᾧ καὶ ὁ κύριος Νέρβας Τραιανὸς σεβαστὸς [...] μονάρχον Δεκίβαλλον ἔλαβε [...] [...]

Apparatus

[^a1: at 3: ναὸν [Oliverio cautiously suggested Ἑκάτιον, but we think that this would lengthen the line unduly.]]

[^a2: at 8: [τὸν τῶν Δακῶν πολεμάρ]/χον or [μονάρ]/χον [the last seems the more suitable.]]

Translation

To Apollo and Artemis [ . . . ] For the safety and permanence of the Emperor Nerva Trajan [Caesar Augustus, victor in Germany, victor in Dacia, and his whole household] the priests built from the [income] of Apollo the temple and the stoa outside the [ . . .], through the agency of G(aios) Postomios [Optatus G(aius) Postumius [Optatus, priest of Apollo in a good year], in whose time that the lord Nerva Trajan Augustus [ . . . .] capured Decebalus, the [?monarch of . . .

Commentary

For the buildings, see Oliverio, loc.cit.

Line 1: Oliverio proposed the title Ἑκάται after Ἀρτάμιδι.

Line 6: Gaius Postumius Optatus also in C.223, lines 15ff. where his priesthoood is dated 106/107; there also he has the same epithet, applied to priests at Cyrene, for which see commentary on C.222.

Line 8: For Trajan's defeat of the Dacian king Decebalus, in 106 CE see Cassius Dio, Historiae Romanae 68.14 (at Perseus)