Dedication to Priapos
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Augustan or first century CE
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Bibliography

[...], 167, whence [...], 1964.572.

[...]ος ἱαρεῦς [...] Ἀνδρέα [...] Θευχρήστω [...] εμάρχω [...] Ἀριστοδαμ[...] [...] Καλλιμάχω τῶ Καλλιμάχω Ἡρακλείδας Διονυσίω τὸν Πρίαπον ἀνέθηκαν

Translation

? When - ] was priest: [ . . . ] of Andreas, [ . . . ] of Theuchrestos, [ . . . ] of [-]emarchos, [ . . . ? of] Aristodamos, [ . . . ? of] Kallimachos the son of Kallimachos; Herakleidas son of Dionysios, dedicated the statue of Priapos

Commentary

Line 1: Probably the date by citation of the name of the eponymous priest of Apollo.

Line 9: On the cult of Priapus, most commonly associated with gardens, see H. Herter, De Priapo. The group of probably six men who joined in this dedication may have been official, for example a college of Nomophylakes, but the type and scale of the dedication suggests a private association: cf. the Priapistae at Gortyn, Inscr. Cret.IV.266 (available at PHI 200708)