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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum: 56.1877-1


DEDICATION TO HERMES AND HERAKLES AT TYRE


Greek text:   SEG 56.1877-1   (I.Tyre 1)
Provenance:     Tyre , Phoenicia
Date:   188/7 B.C

This inscription was published in 2006 by J.-P. Rey-Coquais, "Inscriptions grecques et latines de Tyr", no. 1. Because the collection of inscriptions was published relatively recently, it is not yet included in the PHI database of Greek inscriptions.

For some other references to Greek games in Phoenicia, see 2Macc_4.18 and THI_165. The inscription shown here can be dated quite accurately, because of the reference to Seleukos IV as co-ruler.

The dedication was made to Hermes and Herakles as the tutelar gods of the city's gymnasium; see A. Lichtenberger, "The Youthful Heracles-Melqart in Tyre", para 3 ( Mythos, 2022 ). For a discussion of dedications in 'eastern' Greek gymnasia, see F. Daubner, "Gymnasia: Aspects of a Greek Institution in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East", p. 40 ( academia.edu ).


. . . ...os son of Demetrios, after winning the wrestling contest for ephebes, dedicated this to the great king Antiochos and to his son king Seleukos, to Hermes and to Herakles.

Greek text:

. . . ΟΥΤΙ . . . ος Δημητρίου ἐφήβους πάλην νικήσας βασιλεῖ μεγάλωι Αντιόχωι καὶ τῶι υἱῶι βασιλεῖ Σελεύκωι Ἑρμεῖ Ἡρακλεῖ.


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