New Inscriptions from Herakleia Salbake
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article presents 7 unpublished inscriptions of the Imperial period found during a sur-vey conducted in Herakleia Salbake in 2021 and 2022. They include a dedication to Hera¬kles Ktistes, Dionysos Prokathegemon, and Lucius Verus, the first direct attestation of Herakles as the city’s mythical founder (1); a dedication (of a temple?) to Aphrodite, whose cult was hitherto unattested in this city (2); the heading of an honorific inscription (3); the epitaph of a gladiator (4); the epitaph of Apollonios and his wife Melitine, which includes a funerary fi-ne (5); two possibly metrical epitaphs (6 and 7); and a graffito (8). In addition to providing information on the city’s cults, the new texts enrich Herakleia’s prosopography. The article also provides a list of four already published inscriptions that were located during the sur-vey.
Source: Journal of Philia
Authors: Özge ACAR, Angelos CHANIOTIS, Mehmet OK
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4407866534