Votive inscription for Asklepios, Hygieia and Panakeia created by Antanas Benediktas Alekna Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-04-18T11:46:39, ID there: HD073265 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00792 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/792 Chester, Grosvenor Museum 37.R.1968 altar sandstone incomplete 42.0 62.0 18.0 Plant / Leaf chiselled Verse + Prose No, but follows metrical subdivisions 0.0-0.0 Deva 101-300 Chester Found during the excavation on the site of the Old Market Hall (SJ 403 663). This is on the west side of Northgate Street, where another Greek dedication by a doctor had already been found (RIB 461). Early in the fourth century the altar, already damaged, was placed against the north wall of the south range of a large courtyard building immediately north of the headquarters building (principia), thought to be the legate’s house (praetorium). Source: https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/3151 53.1915 -2.89394 no

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Antiochus

RIB 3151 - Photograph by Grosvenor Museum
πανυπειρόχα ς ἀνθρώπων σωτῆρας ἐν ἀθα νάτοισιν Ἀσκληπιὸν ἠ πιόχειρα θ' Ὑγεί ην καὶ Πανάκει αν εἰητρὸς Ἀντίοχος

Those mortals’ pre-eminent healers among the immortals, Asklepios, healing- handed, and Hygieia and Panakeia: the doctor Antiochus

Doctor Antiochos [?honours…] saviours of mankind pre-eminent among immortals, Asklepios (and) Hygeia of the soothing hand (and) Panakeia.

AE 1969/70, 00291 D. Wilson, R. Wright, Roman Britain in 1968, Journal of Roman Studies 59 (1969), 198-246 (with photo on plate XVIII, no. 2) J. Clackson, T. Meissner, The Poet of Chester’, Cambridge Classical Journal 46 (2001), 1-6 (with photo) SEG 37, 00840 SEG 50, 01086 P. Kruschwitz, Undying voices: the poetry of Roman Britain (Reading 2015), 48-49, no. 21, 69 (with English translation) https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD073265 | HD073265 https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/3151 | RIB 3151