New Inscriptions from Herakleia Salbake
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This article presents 7 unpublished inscriptions of the Imperial period found during a survey conducted in Herakleia Salbake in 2021 and 2022. They include a dedication to Herakles 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 fine (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 survey.
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