10. Inscription to Tyche and the Nemeses of Smyrna - Asturica Augusta

Description

Ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ / Θεαῖς Νεμέσεσιν / Ζμυρναίαις / σεβασμιωτάταις / Ἰούλ(ιος) Σιλουανὸς / Μελανίων / ἐπίτρ(οπος) ∙ Σεβ(αστοῦ) ∙ εὐχήν.

Code

10

Title

10. Inscription to Tyche and the Nemeses of Smyrna - Asturica Augusta

Text of the inscription

Ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ / Θεαῖς Νεμέσεσιν / Ζμυρναίαις / σεβασμιωτάταις / Ἰούλ(ιος) Σιλουανὸς / Μελανίων / ἐπίτρ(οπος) ∙ Σεβ(αστοῦ) ∙ εὐχήν.

Other name

Ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ Θεαῖς Νεμέσεσιν Ζμυρναίαις σεβασμιωτάταις Ἰούλιος Σιλουανὸς Μελανίων ἐπίτροπος Σεβαστοῦ εὐχήν
σεβ(αστὴν)

Textual source

AE 1986, 231.
Before García y Bellido read σεβ(αστὴν).

Number of deities

2

Theonym 1

Onomastic attribute 1

Ἀγαθῇ

Theonym 2

Onomastic attribute 2

Θεαῖς, Ζμυρναίαις and σεβασµιώταταις in plural because the dual or plural/character of the toponymic invocation from Smyrna.

Institutions and individuals involved

1

Chronology

198-209 AE, during the office.

Terminus post quem

198 AE

Terminus ante quem

209 AE

Dating criteria

Prosopography

Place of conservation

Retrieved reused in the walls, now in the Museo de los Caminos. Defined as votive "lápida".

Condition of conservation

In museum

Support

Cippus

Size (cm)

98 x 47,5/44/48 x 27/26/28

Material

Marble

AE

AE 1968, 231

Further bibliography

ERPLe 61. ILAR 4 = HAE 2455 = ENAR 4 = MRCL 116.
A. García y Bellido, Lápidas votivas a deidades exóticas halladas recientemente en As­torga y León, Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 163, 1968, pp.191-209.

HEpOL

Last update

05/07/2021

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Item sets

García y Bellido, 1968, p. 15