<rs type="textType" reg="dedication">Dedication to Hypnos</rs> by high-priest and priest of Asklepios

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Upper part of an inscribed colonnette of blue marble, recomposed from three fragments (across cord 0.28 × 0.53).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

0.025; Τ over Π in l. 2; tilde after the abbreviations in l. 3; apices—perhaps for rough breathing—above first letter in l. 1, and first two letters in l. 8.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature).

Edition τῷ ὛπνῳΣεπτίμιος Αὐρήλιος Φλάουιος ΟὐενίδιοςὙψικλῆς Εὔφρων ἀρχιερεὺς ὁ ἱερεὺς τοῦἈσκληπίου
Translation

Septimius Aurelius Flavius Venidius Hypskles Euphron, high-priest and priest of Asklepios set this monument up for Hypnos.

Commentary

For the same man see 12.712 (=Reinach 29); cf. also M. Ant. Venidius Apellas, 12.645 (=75.327). This man has four nomina and two cognomina: the presence of Aurelius suggests that the text postdates the Edict of Caracalla on citizenship (212), but in any case not before the reign of Septimius (192).

A high priest of the imperial cult, also priest, apparently of Asklepios, to whom the dedication of a statuette of Sleep is especially relevant.

Locations

Walls, South (east part): excavations, trench 4UnknownMuseum (1975).

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.286).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

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