Inscriptions: Votive inscription for Asklepios, Hygieia and Panakeia

Identification

Reference as:	MPL00792
Title	Votive inscription for Asklepios, Hygieia and Panakeia
Trismegistos-No.

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Chester
Find Context	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
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Chester, Grosvenor Museum
Inventory number	37.R.1968
Current Location Details
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Object Details

Object Type	altar
Material	sandstone
State of Preservation	incomplete
Dimensions	width: 42.0 cm height: 62.0 cm depth: 18.0 cm
Letter Size in cm (min)	0.0
Letter Size in cm (max)	0.0
Execution Technique	chiselled
Religion	Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags	Plant / Leaf

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence Carmen + subscriptum
Scriptio Continua in verse part no
Abbreviations in verse part no
Verse Line Correspondence No, but follows metrical subdivisions

Prose Verse Presence	Carmen + subscriptum
Scriptio Continua in verse part	no
Abbreviations in verse part	no
Verse Line Correspondence	No, but follows metrical subdivisions

Text

Function	dedication / votive inscription
Language(s)	Greek
Verse Type(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Rhythmisation	Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

ΠΑΝΥΠΕΙΡΟΧΑ
ΣΑΝΘΡΩΠΩΝ
ΣΩΤΗΡΑΣΕΝΑΘΑ
ΝΑΤΟΙΣΙΝ
5ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΟΝΗ
ΠΙΟΧΕΙΡΑΥΓΕΙ
ΗΝΠΑΝΑΚΕΙ
ΑΝΕΙΗΤΡΟΣ

[]ΝΤΙΟΧΟΣ
10[---]

πανυπειρόχα-
ς ἀνθρώπων
σωτῆρας ἐν ἀθα-
νάτοισιν
5 Ἀσκληπιὸν ἠ-
πιόχειρα <θ'> Ὑγεί-
ην <καὶ> Πανάκει-
αν εἰητρὸς

[Ἀ]ντίοχος
10[---]

πανυπειρόχας ἀνθρώπων σωτῆρας ἐν ἀθα|νάτοισιν |
(5) Ἀσκληπιὸν ἠπιόχειρα <θ'> Ὑγείην <καὶ> Πανάκειαν εἰητρὸς

[Ἀ]ντίοχος [---]

Apparatus

Main Translation

Translation	Those mortals’ pre-eminent healers among the immortals, Asklepios, healing- handed, and Hygieia and Panakeia: the doctor Antiochus
Citation	Peter Kruschwitz (Kruschwitz 2015)

Other Translations

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

(English, https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/3151)

Prosopographical Information

Name Antiochus
Gender Male
Profession Other profession
Role Dedicator

Name	Antiochus
Gender	Male
Profession	Other profession
Role	Dedicator

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	101 AD
Date (To)	300 AD
Date (Criteria)	palaeography

Bibliography

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) 🔗 link
J. Clackson, T. Meissner, The Poet of Chester’, Cambridge Classical Journal 46 (2001), 1-6 (with photo) 🔗 link
RIB 03151
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) 🔗 link
HD073265 🔗 link
RIB 3151 🔗 link

Images

Votive inscription for Asklepios, Hygieia and Panakeia
RIB 3151 - Photograph by Grosvenor Museum

Editing History

Created	2025-03-31, by Antanas Benediktas Alekna
Work Status	Complete
Import Notice	Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-04-18T11:46:39, ID there: HD073265

Revisions

by Unknown
at 2024-04-18 11:46
by Antanas Benediktas Alekna
at 2024-05-11 09:15
by Antanas Benediktas Alekna
at 2024-05-11 09:19
by Antanas Benediktas Alekna
at 2024-05-11 09:23
by Antanas Benediktas Alekna
at 2024-05-11 09:24
by Antanas Benediktas Alekna
at 2024-05-11 09:28
by Antanas Benediktas Alekna
at 2024-05-11 09:29
by Anna Pokorny
at 2024-07-25 09:23
by Chiara Cenati
at 2024-10-30 16:59
by Chiara Cenati
at 2024-10-30 17:02
by Chiara Cenati
at 2024-10-30 17:03

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