Ancient Greek Inscriptions

Letters in ligature:
4 πηκ;
5 ηπ
6 ωνε, τηρ.
Apparatus:
The text of the inscription is compared with the edition of Mihailov after a comparison through personal observation by N. Sharankov and given with some corrections.
4The first omicron in the word ἐπηκόοις has been re-written over a letter with vertical strokes.
The stone block has probably been reused because there are possible traces of letters from an earlier inscription near the left and right frame of the epigraphic field.

Nicolay Sharankov dates the inscription according to the revised date of Eustochius Celer's office. He was a thracarch (president of the Thracian koinon) in AD 248-249, during the rule of Philippus Arabs and Otacilia Severa.

Eustochius Celer was a Roman citizen, but this inscription gives only his two cognomina - Eustochius (Greek) and Celer (Latin). His father was a Roman citizen as well but is mentioned here only by his Greek cognomen.

The dedicant's full name was Marcus Aurelius Eustochius Celer. His father Aurelius Asclepiades is attested as a legal representative of a religious society in AD 244-245 in an inscription from Cellae (IGBulg 1517) where the son is mentioned only with the name Celer. Eustochius Celer appears as thracarch in two other inscriptions (IGBulg 1537 and AE 2018, 1430) and without an office in IGBulg 5591.

Mihailov, Georgius. Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria repertae. Vol. III.1, 1961.

Sharankov, Nicolay. Notes on Greek Inscriptions from Bulgaria. In: Studia Classica Serdicensia Vol. V, 2016, p. 305-361.

Добруский, Вацлав. За римский път и за някои римски старини в провинция Тракия.. In: Третий годишен отчет на Областната реална гимназия в Пловдив за учебната 1883/84 година., 1884, p. 1-18.