Thyatira area [Hadrianopolis-Stratonikeia] (Lydia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), undated
Louis Robert, "Inscriptions de la vallée du haut caïque," Hellenica 6 (1948) 80-116, at 86 (no. 30)
= PHI 266494
= AGRW ID# 13018
Funerary altar decorated with a serpent, found in Soma and then taken to the Manisa museum by 1948 (98 x 35 x 28 cm). Hadrianopolis-Stratonikeia (near modern Soma) was located about 30 km north of Thyatira near the border with Mysia.
For Alexandros the chief-initiate (archimystēs). The society (thiasos) honored him for the sake of remembrance. (relief of a serpent)
Translation by: HarlandἈλεξάνδρῳ | ἀρχιμύστῃ· | ὁ θίασος | ἐτείμησεν || μνείας χάριν. | {serpent}
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