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R.E.C.A.M. Notes and Studies No. 7: Inscriptions from Uşak, Denizli and Hisar köy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. R. R. Sheppard
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The following texts were recorded in Uşak Museum and in the archaeological depots at Denizli and Hisar Köy (Attuda) during preparatory work for the R.E.C.A.M. project.

Cylindrical altar of white marble. Below the text a wreath and boucrania. Now in the garden of Uşak Museum, but probably from Sebaste (Selçikler). Height: 0·98 m. Diameter: 0·49 m. Letters: 1·8 cm. Pl.I(a).

“Year 188 (= A.D. 104), in the ninth month. Euphrastus, slave of Caesar, (prays) for the victory and eternal security of Imperator Nerva Traianus Caesar Augustus Germanicus Dacicus.”

The prayer for Trajan's victory is particularly appropriate in the year preceding the final conflict with Decebalus (105/6). Euphrastus is almost certainly to be identified with the Εὔφραστος Καίσαρος included in the list of founder members of the Gerousia of Sebaste in A.D. 99.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 31 , December 1981 , pp. 19 - 27
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1981

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1 I am grateful to the T.C. Eski Eserler ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüǧü for granting permission for this work, to the Institute for supporting me as Scholar in 1976, when the work at Uşak and Denizli was carried out, to the Directors of the Museums concerned and their staffs for all their help. I owe an especial debt of gratitude to the Kaymakam of Sarayköy and the Muhtar and people of Hisar Köy for a great deal of help and hospitality in August 1977.

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25 Restored by MAMA as follows: . Now in Denizli Depot, Inv.no. 179.

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