Prusa by Olympos (Bithynia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), II CE
IPrusaOlymp 115
= SEG 49 (1999), no. 1796
= PHI 278605
= AGRW ID# 20491
Other interpreters suggest that this was a group devoted to the Judean deity or Theos Hypsistos. Both readings find some support: Judeans may have self-identified using the adjective "God-fearing" (theosebeis). However, Judean use of the designation is rarely attested (do see CIJ II 683a). Theos Hypsistos worshippers occasionally employed fictive kinship language as may be the case in this inscription (see, e.g., GRA II 96).
The children Marcianus and Epitherses along with the brothers (adelphoi) set this up from their own resources for Epitherses, the god-fearer, and for Theoktistos for the sake of remembrance.
Translation by: Richard LastItem added: December 26, 2015
Item modified: March 7, 2016
ID number: 20491
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