Kyme (Mysia and the Troad, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), I-II CE
H. Bru and E. Laflı, "Inscriptions gréco-romaines d’Anatolie X," Chronique d’Orient (2021), 344-347 (no. 5)
= SEG 65 (2015), 1101
= AGRW ID# 32852
Base of marble discovered in 2011 under the civic marketplace (agora). Associations devoted to the god Dionysos Kathegemon are well attested in this region (e.g. at Pergamon and Philadelphia), as a search of Kathegemon on this site will show.
The initiates (mystai) . . . of the great god Dionysos (?) . . . Kathegemon (“the Leader”) before the city honored . . . Titius Flavius Primigenius, freedman (?) . . . of Augustus and procurator, . . . their own (?) . . . benefactor.
Translation by: Harland[Διονύσ]ο̣υ Καθηγεμόνος | [μεγάλου θε]οῦ πρὸ πόλεως | [ο]ἱ μύσται | [Τίτον Φλά]ο̣υϊον Σεβαστοῦ || [ἀπελεύθε]ρ̣ον καὶ ἐπίτροπον | [Πριμ]ιγένιον | [τὸν ἑαυτῶν] εὐεργέτην.
Item added: December 10, 2021
Item modified: October 31, 2022
ID number: 32852
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