Dedication to Asklepios
created: Transcription (Reynolds)
source date: Second to third centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he

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Ἀϲκληπιῶι Βαλαγρείτηι Ἰητρῶι [...] Λούκουλλοϲ ἐπίτροποϲ τοῦ Ϲεβαϲτοῦ [...]ν ὑγείαϲ καὶ εἰϲ ὑπόμνηϲιν τῆϲ πρὸϲ ἑαυτὸν φιλίαϲ δράκοντα ἀργύρεον

[To Asklep]ios of Balagrae, Doctor, [?] Lucullus, procurator of the Emperor, [?in thanks for] health and as a memorial of friendship [towards himself?] (dedicated) a silver serpent.

[To Asklep]ios of Balagrae, Iatros, [Lo]ukoullos, procurator of the Emperor, [?in thanks for] health and in memory of kindness [towards himself?] dedicated a silver serpent.

The epithet of the god confirms the identity of Balagrae, site of a famous shrine of Asklepios: τὸ δ᾽ ἐν Βαλάγραις ταῖς Κυρηναίων ἐστὶν Ἀσκληπιὸς καλούμενος Ἰατρὸς, Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio II, 26, 9, available at Perseus. Lucullus was presumably procurator of Crete and Cyrene, perhaps to be identified with Julius Lucullus, PIR2, I 0387