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Dedication by Hadrianius Demetrianus and Hadrianius Asclepiades

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Monument III.1421 (= V.5524)

Editor(s)

Georgi Mihailov.

Type of monument

statue base

Material

marble

Find place

near the Sveti Spas church, to the West of the former Voden village, now Gorni Voden district of Asenovgrad

Origin

territory of Philippopolis

Observed in

exhibited in front of the History Museum in Asenovgrad

Institution and inventory

Asenovgrad History Museum
No —

Dimensions

height 115 cm, width 39 cm, depth 23 cm

Letter size

height 2.5 - 3 cm

Layout description

Rectangular statue base, broken above and to the right, moulded in the upper and lower parts. The inscription is on the front side, in a framed field.

Decoration description

Text

Category of inscription

private dedication - prose

Date

second half of II c. or III c. AD

Dating criteria

lettering

Images

Text

Ἁδριάνιοι Δημ̣[η]-
τριανὸς καὶ Ἀ[σκλη]-
πιάδης τὸν βω[μὸν]
κα⸢ὶ τ⸣ὸ ἄγαλμα ἐκ
5τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέ[στη]-
σαν ἐν τόπῳ ἰδίῳ. [εὐ]-
τυχῶς. (vac.)

AΔΡΙANΙΟΙΔΗṂΗ
ΤΡΙΑNOΣΚΑIAΣΚΛΗ
ΠΙAΔΗΣΤONΒΩMON
ΚΑΠΣOAΓΑΛMΑEΚ
5ΤΩNIΔIΩNANEΣΤΗ
ΣΑNEN..ΠΩIΔIΩΕY
ΤΥΧΩΣ vacat

Hadrianius Demetrianus and Hadrianius Asclepiades erected this base and the statue at their own expense and in their own place. May it be fortunate!

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Geonames

List: GVoden

⤦ n: 1

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Ἁδριάνιοι Δημ̣η τριανὸς καὶ Ἀσκλη πιάδης

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Ἁδριάνιοι

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Δημ̣η τριανὸς

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Δημ̣

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⤦ n: 2

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τριανὸς

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καὶ

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Ἀσκλη πιάδης

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Ἀ

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σκλη

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πιάδης

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τὸν

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βωμὸν

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βω

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μὸν

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⤦ n: 4

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καπσὶ τ

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καπ

tag: w

κα

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ὶ τ

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ὸ

tag: #text

ἄγαλμα

lemma: ἄγαλμα
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ἐκ

lemma: ἐκ
tag: w

⤦ n: 5

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τῶν

tag: w

ἰδίων

lemma: ἴδιος
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ἀνέστη σαν

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ἀνέ

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στη

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⤦ n: 6

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σαν

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ἐν

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τόπῳ

lemma: τόπος
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τό

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πῳ

tag: #text

ἰδίῳ

lemma: ἴδιος
tag: w

tag: #text

εὐ τυχῶς

lemma: εὐτυχῶς
tag: w

εὐ

tag: supplied

⤦ n: 7

break: no
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τυχῶς

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                    <lb n="1"/><persName nymRef="Ἁδριάνιοι Δημητριανὸς καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδης"><name ref="Onom.xml#Hadrianius" nymRef="Ἁδριάνιος" type="gentilicium">Ἁδριάνιοι</name> <name ref="Onom.xml#Demetrianus" nymRef="Δημητριανός" type="cognomen">Δημ̣<supplied>η</supplied>
                    <lb n="2" break="no"/>τριανὸς</name> <w>καὶ</w> <name ref="Onom.xml#Asclepiades" nymRef="Ἀσκληπιάδης" type="cognomen">Ἀ<supplied>σκλη</supplied>
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                    <lb n="5"/><w>τῶν</w> <w lemma="ἴδιος">ἰδίων</w> <w lemma="ἀνίστημι">ἀνέ<supplied>στη</supplied>
                    <lb n="6" break="no"/>σαν</w> <w lemma="ἐν">ἐν</w> <w lemma="τόπος"><unclear>τό</unclear>πῳ</w> <w lemma="ἴδιος">ἰδίῳ</w>. <w lemma="εὐτυχῶς"><supplied>εὐ</supplied>
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                </ab>

Apparatus

Letters in ligature:
3 ησ;
4 πσ;
5 νε;
6 νε.
Apparatus:
The text of the inscription is given according to the edition of Mihailov, with changes after a personal observation by Sharankov.
4ΚΑΠСΟ (with ligature πς) instead of ΚΑΙΤΟ. The mistake was probably corrected with paint by the colouring of the letters.
Rectangular sigma, lunar and angular omega.

Commentary

The dedicants are Roman citizens, their common Roman nomen of Hadrianius suggests that they are either brothers or a father and a son; the cognomen of Asclepiades is Greek and of Demetrianus is Roman of Greek origin. The nomen Hadrianius, undoubtedly connected with the name of Emperor Hadrian, has been attested only in the province of Thrace; the only seeming exception is one Hadrianius Sallustius, praefect of Aegypt in AD 279-282, but he is obviously a descendant of the archpriest Publius Hadrianius Sallustius attested in Philippopolis ca. AD 204 (IGBulg 5407).

The word βωμός (commonly "altar") is used with the meaning of "statue base" as in other inscriptions from Thrace (cf. IGBulg 1452).