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Dedication of a Table to Herakles for a Guild (undated) Philippopolis - Thrace


Philippopolis (Thrace, Danube and Black Sea areas — Pleiades map), undated
IGBulg 1401(2) = PHI 169485 = AGRW ID# 14186
Copenhagen Inventory info: 622


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To good fortune.  Chrestos son of Telesphoros, the measurer (prometrēs; or: surveyor), who was chief of the club for the fifth time in an irreproachable manner, used his own resources to dedicate this, together with the table, to Herakles for the most sacred guild (synergion).

Translation by: Harland



ἀ̣γ̣αθῆι τ̣[ύχηι]. | Χρῆστος Τελεσφό|ρου προμέτρης δεκα|νεύσας εʹ ἀμέμπτως || τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ συνεργίῳ | ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκα | τὸν Ἡρακλέα | σὺν̣ [τ]ῇ̣ τρ̣α̣π̣έζῃ.

Item added: July 4, 2013
Item modified: September 26, 2020
ID number: 14186
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