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Category: Hygeia / Hygiae

Honors by Asklepiasts for Alkibiades from Thorikos (ca. 250 BCE) ║ Athens - Attica

Honors (frag.) by a Society for its Treasurer Paidikos (ca. 239 BCE) ║ Eleusis - Attica

Dedication (frag.) to Asklepios and Hygieia by Society-members (249/248 BCE) ║ Eleusis - Attica

Dedication to Hygeia by a Brotherhood of Asklepios (28 CE) ║ Saittai area [Iaza] - Lydia

[241] Statue Base of the Followers of Amphias (ca. 150 BCE) ║ Eretria on Euboea - Southwestern islands

[322] Regulations of the Association of Aesculapius and Hygiae (153 CE) ║ Rome - Latium

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Online Resources

1a) Inventory of Ancient Associations
1b) Ghent Database of Roman Guilds
1c) RICIS: Isis and Sarapis inscriptions
2a) PHI Epigraphy Database (Greek)
2b) Papyri.info
2c) Inscriptiones Graecae: Greek and both German and English translations
2d) Eagle Project inscription search
2e) Collection of Greek Ritual Norms
2f) Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae
2g) Greek Economic Inscriptions
3a) Aphrodisias in Caria (Inscriptions of Aphrodisias)
3b) Arabia (Corpus of Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia)
3c) Attica (Attic Inscriptions, in English)
3d) Black Sea area (Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea)
3e) Boubon in Lycia (Survey Results of Boubon)
3f) Britain (Roman Inscriptions of Britain)
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3h) Phrygia and Lykaonia (MAMA XI)
3i) Spain (Hispania Epigraphica)
3j) Tripolitana in Libya (Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania)
3k) Cyrenaica in Libya (Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica)
3l) Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica

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