Dedication to the Just Gods by a Group in Fulfillment of a Vow (ca. 240 CE)

Termessos (Pisidia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), after 212 CE
B. Iplikçioğlu, "Bati Pamphylia ve Dogu Lykia’da epigrafya Arastirmalari 2002," Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantıları 21.1 (2003) 75-78, at 76 + EBGR (2004), no. 120 (line 4) = SEG 54 (2004), no. 1380 = PHI 346180 = AGRW ID# 22118

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Inscription on the eastern wall of a cave. This list of people who joined together in making or fulfilling a vow to the Just gods may have been an ongoing association. Another very fragmentary, metrical inscription on a slab is dedicated to the same gods and makes reference to members of a society (thiasos) setting up an inscription (see Iplikçioğlu, p. 77).

This was dedicated to the Just (Dikaioi) Deities who listen to prayer. Aurelius Makarios Molesios who is also called Name . . . inscribed . . . those making a vow together (euxamenoi). The Aurelii written below: Archelaos . . . son of Artemidoros, Chryseros son of Artemon, Soterichos son of Name. . ., Artemon son of Chryseros, Hermes son of Name. . ., Euaratos son of Gorgos, Kottos son of Euaratos, Enteimos son of Akinakarios and grandson of Trokonodos, Agorastos son of Enteimos, Thoas son of Hieron, Protogonos son of Trokondos and grandson of Hermaios and great-grandson of Masas, . . . Name son of Philistion and grandson of Melesandros, Platon son of Hermas and grandson of Apollonios and great-grandson of Agorastos, Parmenion son of Hermeianos, . . . Name, Prosdokimos son of Hermolaos, Name, Name son of Agathangelos, . . . Name son of Zosimos, Eumeros son of Name . . . (remainder lost).

Translation by: Harland

Θεοῖς Δικαίοις | ἐπηκόοις Αὐρ(ήλιος) Μα|κάρ̣ι̣ο̣ς̣ Μολεσιος ὁ καὶ Βο|․λ̣̣ο̣σ̣[․․․․․․․] ἀνένγραψε || [— — —]ΟΤ․․ εὐξάμενοι̣· | [— οἱ ὑπογεγ]ρ̣αμμένοι Αὐρήλιοι | Ἀρχε․[. . . .ca.8. . . .]άρης Ἀρτεμιδώ[ρου], | Χρυσέρως Ἀρτέμων̣ο̣ς, Σωτήριχος Μα․[․ . ․] | Ἀρτέμων Χρυσέρωτος, Ἑρμῆς Κ․․ο․ου, || Εὐάρατος Γόργου, Κόττος Εὐαράτου, | Ἔντειμος Ακινακαριου Τρο(κονδου), | Ἀγόραστος Ἐντείμου, Θόας Ἱέρωνος, | Πρωτόγονος Τρ(οκονδου) Ἑρ(μαίου) Μασαντος, | ․․․νδος Φιλιστίωνος Μελησά[νδρου], || Πλάτων Ἑρμᾶ Ἀπολλωνίου Ἀγο(ράστου), | Παρμενίων Ἑρμειανοῦ, Σ․․․․ιλος [— — —], | Προσδόκιμος Ἑρμολάου [— ca.7 —]O[․ . ․], | [— —]άτωρ Ἀγαθαγγέλο[υ — ca.7-8 —], | ․․․․Σ․․ Ζωσίμου, Εὔμ̣ερος Ἑρμ[— ca.6 —] || [— — —]

Item added: January 25, 2016
Item modified: January 25, 2016
ID number: 22118
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Category: Cave inscription, Dedication inscription, g) 3rd century CE, h) Pisidia, Vow / Prayer

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