5. Dedication to Asclepius by M. Virdius Taurus

Description

• Monument: votive plaque; relief: Asclepius standing, giving an egg to a snake entwined around his wand; altar with a cone on it at the left; snake-entwined column with a large egg on it at the right; garland in the background; marble
• Dimensions: 0.30 × 0.27 × 0.05
• Text: on the frame above and below the relief
• Letters: 0.013
• Date: second century AD
• Found: Sanctuary of Asclepius Zymydrenos near Batkun (territory of Philippopolis)
• Now: Plovdiv, Archaeological museum, inv. no. 2245.
• Text Category: private, dedicatory

Publication

• Bibliography: G. Mihailov, Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria repertae, vol. III, 1, Serdicae, 1961, no. 1174.
• Editorial: The text was encoded following the edition of Mihailov without any additional corrections.
• Publisher: Text by N. Sharankov.

Text

(above the relief) Ἀγαθῆι τύχηι. Ἀσκληπι- ῶι
(below the relief) Ζυλμυσδριηνωι σωτῆρι Μᾶρ- κος Οὐίρδιος Ταῦρος εὐχαριστή- ριον.

Translation

Good luck. Marcus Virdius Taurus [dedicated this] thank-offering to the saviour Asclepius Zylmysdrienus.

На добър час. Марк Вирдий Тавър [посвети този] благодарствен дар на спасителя Асклепий Зилмиздриенски.

Apparatus

Ligatures: l. 1: ΛΗΠ; l. 2: ΤΗΡ, l. 3: ΤΗ.

Photographs

Commentary

Marcus Virdius Taurus belonged to the family of Virdii (see Н. Шаранков, Virdii, Munatii, Antii. Знатните римски родове във Филипопол и провинция Тракия – Societas classica, 2006, p. 179-194).

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