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LSA-774 Semicolumnar block, probably base for statue, with dedication to Oecumenius Dositheus Asclepiodotus, governor of Creta. Gortyna (Creta). 382-383








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Gortyna Province: Creta Region: Aegean Islands, with Crete
Details: Gortyn, praetorium
Current Location: Gortys, archaeological site, east wall of the praetorium
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Marble Re-Use? No
Form: Other Height(cm): 150 Width(cm): 59 Depth(cm): 53
Language: Greek Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Oecumenius Dositheus Asclepiodotus, governor of Creta Position: Provincial Governors Gender: Male
Awarder: Aemilius Quintilius Pyrrhus and Ulpius Fursidius Panhellenius by decree of the provincial assembly of Crete Position: Provinces and provincial councils
DATE
Earliest: 382 Latest : 383
MAIN REFERENCE
Guarducci, M., Inscriptiones Creticae. Vol 4. Tituli Gortynii, Roma 1950, no. 313
INSCRIPTION
Text: Οἰκουμένιον Δωσίθεον / Ἀσκληπιόδοτον, τὸν λαμπρότατον / ὑπατικόν, ἀρετῆς ἕνεκεν καὶ / δικαιοσύνης Αἰμίλιος Κυντίλιος / Πύρρος ὁ σοφιστὴς καὶ Οὔλπιος / Φουρσίδιος Πανελλήνιος πρωτεύων, / δόγματι τοῦ κοινοῦ τῆς Κρητῶν / ἐπαρχίας, παρὰ τὴν Δίκην ἀνέστησαν Trans: Aemilius Quintilius Pyrrhus the sophist and Ulpius Fursidius Panhellenius, who stood first, set (this) up to Oecumenius Dositheus Asclepiodotus the governor (consularis) of clarissimus rank, by Dike (= the praetorium), because of his virtue and his justice, by decree of the assembly of the province of the Cretans
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