{"title":"A suppliant at Gerasa (Greek epigraphic evidence from the temple of Zeus-Olympius)","authors":"K. Rigsby","doi":"10.2307/1089092","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPIUS AT GERASA has yielded several inscribed dedications, which identify for us the god of the place.' Three texts derive from one man, Theon, who was a suppliant in the temple in A.D. 69/70. The few scholars who have tried to reconstruct his story are greatly at variance. R. O. Fink thought that he was a Gerasene who dedicated his children to the god as sacred slaves in some oriental manner.2 Welles (1938: 377), who knew from another inscription (I. Gerasa no. 30) that Gerasa had the civic title \"sacred and inviolable,\" thought that Theon had availed himself of a Greek privilege and taken refuge in Gerasa from some other city. Theon's case is worth exploring, as this is one of the rare episodes of temple-refuge in the documentary record. We have two stones, which contain between them three texts inscribed by three hands.3 I. Gerasa no. 5:","PeriodicalId":29928,"journal":{"name":"PHOENIX-THE JOURNAL OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2000-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PHOENIX-THE JOURNAL OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1089092","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPIUS AT GERASA has yielded several inscribed dedications, which identify for us the god of the place.' Three texts derive from one man, Theon, who was a suppliant in the temple in A.D. 69/70. The few scholars who have tried to reconstruct his story are greatly at variance. R. O. Fink thought that he was a Gerasene who dedicated his children to the god as sacred slaves in some oriental manner.2 Welles (1938: 377), who knew from another inscription (I. Gerasa no. 30) that Gerasa had the civic title "sacred and inviolable," thought that Theon had availed himself of a Greek privilege and taken refuge in Gerasa from some other city. Theon's case is worth exploring, as this is one of the rare episodes of temple-refuge in the documentary record. We have two stones, which contain between them three texts inscribed by three hands.3 I. Gerasa no. 5:
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