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Dedication and Membership List (frag.) of Initiates of Dionysos (undated) Nikopolis on the Istros - Thrace


Nikopolis on the Istros (Thrace, Danube and Black Sea areas — Pleiades map), undated
IGBulg 5244 = PHI 170444 = AGRW ID# 14148
Copenhagen Inventory info: 1753


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This dedication is followed by a fragmentary list of initiates (30 of which are legible). Four names appear to be feminine (Januaria, Bacchis, Tatia, and Loukis).

The initiates set this up for Dionysos from their own resources.

(column A) Demetrianos son of Sousion, Antonius Montianus, Heraklianos son of Demetrianos, . . . Name son of Demetrianos, Diogenes son of Name. . . , (line with only vestiges of letters). . . Herklianos son of Sousion, Aelius Laudikianos, Festus son of Heraklianos, Januaria (?) daughter (?) of Augustalius, Tiberius Claudius Ulpianus, Demetrios son of Name . . . Gaius Valerius . . . , Marcus Valerius (?) . . . Marcus Valerius Vetias. . . (missing two lines). . . Flavius. . . Bacchis (Bacchios [?]) daughter (?) of Heliodoros, Heraklianos (?) son of Name. . . , Name son of Bacchios. . . (vestiges of letters),  (column B) Gaius Magius . . . , Tatia daughter of Verus (or: Titius son of Averius [?]), Gaius Magius Verus (?), Ptolemaios son of Name. . . Valerius (?) Heraphilos, Asklepiodoros (or: Asklepiodotos) son of Name, . . . (missing line), Felix . . ., Flavius Magius. . . , Ptolemaios (?) son of Name. . . , Loukis . . . , Cassianus. . . (two missing lines), Marcianus . . . (remainder lost).

Translation by: Harland



[τὸν Δι]όνυσον μύστ[αι ἐκ τῶν] | ἰδί̣ω̣ν |

{column A, beginning at line 3}

Δημητριανὸς Σουσίωνος | Ἀντ(ώνιος) Μοντεια[νός] || Ἡρακλιανὸς Δημητριανοῦ | ․․․ε̣ῖνος Δημητριανοῦ | [Διο]γένης ․ΝΟ․ΩΝΟϹ | {vestiges of letters} | Ἡρακλιανὸς Σουσίωνος || Αἴ(λιος) Λαυδικια[νός] | Φῆστος Ἡρακλιανοῦ | Ἰανουά[ρ]ια(?) Αὐγουσταλίου | Τι(βέριος) Κλ(αύδιος) Οὐλπιαν[ός] | Δημήτρι[ος — — —] || Γ(άιος) Οὐα[λέριος — — —] | Μ̣(ᾶρκος) Ο[ὐαλέριος — — —] | Μ̣(ᾶρκος) Οὐαλέριος Οὐα̣τ̣[ίας] | [— — —] | {vestiges of letters} || Φλ(άβιος) Χ․․Τ․․․․․Ιικίου | Βάκχι[ς Ἡ]λιο[δ]ώρου | Ἡ[ρα]κ[λ]ιαν[ὸς] ․․δίου | [— — —] Βα<κ>χίου(?) | {vestiges of letters}

{column b, beginning at line 3}

Γ(άιος) Μάγιος Λ[— — —] | Τατία Βήρ[ου] {ΤΙΤΙΑΒΗΡ(?); Τίτι(ος) Ἀβηρ[ίου] (Geras.-Tomova)} || Γ(άιος) Μάγιος Β[ῆρος] | Πτολεμα̣[ῖος — — —] | Β(αλέριος?) Ἡράφιλο[ς — — —] | Ἀσκληπιόδ[ωρος {Ἀσκληπιόδ[οτος]} — — —] | [— — —] || Φῆλιξ Μνη[— — —] | Φλά(βιος) Μάγ̣[ιος — — —] | [Πτο]λεμ[αῖος — — —] | Λούκις Α[— — —] | Κασσιανὸς [— — — — — — —] || {vestiges of letters} | Μαρκι[ανὸς — — —] | {vestiges of letters}.

Item added: July 4, 2013
Item modified: September 26, 2020
ID number: 14148
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