Dedication of a Votive by Initiates of Apollo Pleurenos (90s BCE)

Sardis area [north of Gygaia lake] (Lydia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), 90s BCE
SEG 46 (1996), no. 1520 = SEG 46 (1996), no. 1520 = AGRW ID# 610

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Slab of marble with triangular pediment and acroteria, now in the Bergama Museum.

When Apollonios son of Dionysios was priest of Roma and Phoinix son of Phoinix was priest of Zeus Polieus (“of the City”), in the month of Apellaios, the priest Hermogenes son of Kadoas and the initiates dedicated this votive to Apollo on the Shores. They are: Metrodoros son of Menekrates, Dionysios son of Apollonios, Demetrios son of Metrodoros, Apollonios son of Dionysios, Apollonios son of Philippos, Amphias son of Mithreies, Posidonios son of Hermolaos, Hermogenes son of Artemidoros … (10) Apollonios son of Dionysios, Isidoros son of Artemidoros, Menekrates son of Apollonios, Apollonios son of Menekrates, Apollonios son of Metrodoros, Alexon son of Hermogenes, Apollonios son of Hermogenes, Glaukias son of Apollonios, Menekrates son of Hermogenes, Hermogenes son of Pytheas, Asklepiades son of Hermogenes, Apollodoros son of Metrodoros, Apollonios son of Isodoros, Metrodoros son of Kallimachos, Ploutiades son of Dionysios, Metrodoros son of Apollonios, Isidoros son of Metrodoros, Apollonios son of Menekrates, Hermogenes son of Apollonios, Hermogenes (20) son of Apollonios, Apollonios son of Pleri, Metrodoros son of Hermogenes, Menandros son of Apollonios, Apollodoros son of Menekrates, Ploutiades son of Kallimachos, Hermippos son of Dionysios, Metrodoros son of Apollonios, Metrodoros son of Menekrates, Metrodoros son of Asklepiades, Apollonios son of Menogenes, Demetrios son of Apollonios, Asklepiades son of Dionysios, Apollonios son of Hermolaos, Sokrates son of Apollonios, Apollonios son of Dionysios …

Translation by: Harland

Ἐπὶ ἱερέων τῆς μὲν Ῥώμης Ἀπολλωνίου ǀ τοῦ Διονυσίου, τοῦ δὲ Διὸς τοῦ Πολιέως ǀ Φοίνικος τοῦ Φοίνικος, μηνὸς Ἀπελλαίου [number ?] ǀ Ἀπόλλωνι Πλευρηνῷ Ἑρμογένης Καδοου ǀǀ ἱερεὺς καὶ οἱ μύσται εὐχήν· εἰσὶν δέ ǀ Μητρόδωρος Μενεκράτου, Διονύσιος Ἀπολλωνίου, ǀ Δημήτριος Μητροδώρου, Ἀπολλώνιος Διονυσίου, ǀ Ἀπολλώνιος Φιλίππου, Ἀμφίας Μιθρείους, Ποσιǀδώνιος Ἑρμολάου, Ἑρμογένης Ἀρτεμιδώρου ΟΔΗ . . ΠΟ. , ǀǀ Ἀπολλώνιος Διονυσίου, Ἰσίδωρος Ἀρτεμιδώρου, ǀ Μενεκράτης Ἀπολλωνίου, Ἀπολλώνιος Μενεκράǀτου, Ἀπολλώνιος Μητροδώρου, Ἀλέξων Ἑρμογένου, Ἀπολλώνιος Ἑρμογένου, Γλαυκίας Ἀπολλωνίου, ǀ Μενεκράτης Ἑρμογένου, Ἑρμογένης Πυθέου, ǀǀ Ἀσκληπιάδης Ἑρμογένου, Ἀπολλόδωρος Μηǀτροδώρου, Ἀπολλώνιος Ἰσιδώρου, Μητρόδωǀρος Καλλιμάχου, Πλουτιάδης Διονυσίου, Μητρόδωρος Ἀπολλωνίου, Ἰσίδωρος Μη[τρο]ǀδώρου, Ἀπολλώνιος Μενεκράτου, Ἑρμογένης ǀǀ Ἀπολλωνίου, Ἑρμογένης Ἀπολλωνίου, Ἀπολλώǀνιος Πληρει, Μητρόδωρος Ἑρμογένου, ǀ Μένανδρος Ἀπολλωνίου, ǀ Ἀπολλόδωρος Μενεκράτου, ǀ Πλουτιάδης Καλλιμάχου, ǀǀ Ἕρμιππος Διονυσίου, ǀ Μητρόδωρος Ἀπολλωνίου, ǀ Μητρόδωρος Μενεκράτου, ǀ Μητρόδωρος Ἀσκληπιάδου, ǀ Ἀπολλώνιος Μηνογένου, ǀǀ Δημήτριος Ἀπολλωνίου, ǀ Ἀσκληπιάδης Διονυσίου, ǀ Ἀπολλώνιος Ἑρμολάου, Σωκράτης Ἀπολλωνίου, ǀ [Ἀπολλ]ώνιος Διονυσίου ǀ [— — —]

Item added: November 20, 2011
Item modified: December 4, 2015
ID number: 610
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