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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