Ancient Greek Inscriptions

Letters in ligature:
1 ην, πηκ;
2 νμ.
Apparatus:
The text of the inscription follows the edition of Mihailov and is rendered with changes after a comparison through personal observation by N. Sharankov.
2 The name Κλαύδιος in l. 2 was initially written with omega, ΚΛΑΥΔΙΩΣ.
2 Σαλλιων: Ботушарова Σαλα ζῶν; IGBulg Σαλαζων.
3 The letters in the last line are placed in the central part of the line, with significant spaces between them and with large vacats on both sides.

The dedicant is a Roman citizen and bears Roman praenomen and nomen, as well as a Thracian cognomen. The names Tiberius Claudius suggest that the dedicant’s family had been granted Roman citizenship when Thrace was declared a Roman province. The cognomen Sallion is derived from a Thracian root (cf. the personal names Σαλας, Σαλλος) with the Greek suffix -ιων.

Apollo’s epithet is derived with the suffix -ηνος from a toponym, probably *Ζγουλαμια; in other dedications from the same sanctuary the name is also attested as Ζγουλαμηνος, without the ι.

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

Ботушарова, Лилия. Оброчни релефи на Аполон от Тракия. In: Annuaire du Musée national archéologique Plovdiv Vol. 3, 1959, p. 145-153.