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Last Updated on 23 Mar 2017

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 598: hoi sebomenoi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area The Near East and Beyond
ii. Region Arabia
iii. Site Gerasa

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ σεβόμενοι (I.Gerasa 28, l. 5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi sebomenoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 79 / 80 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:sebomenoi

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Gerasa 28 (AD 79/80)
Online Resources I.Gerasa 28
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek dedicatory inscription
i.c. Physical format(s) Molded block, built into a modern house.
ii. Source(s) provenance Jerash

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects στοά, stoa (l. 4)
λάκκος, lakkos (l. 5)

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The group dedicates a stoa and a cistern to Artemis.
Deities worshipped Artemis
iv. Honours/Other activities The dedication is made for the soteria (ll. 2-3) of the emperors.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The inscription carries two dates: it was set up in AD 79/80, but at least the lakkos was erected 10 years earlier.
ii. Poland concordance Poland B *451D
iii. Bibliography Welles, C.B. (1938), ‘The Inscriptions’, in C.H. Kraeling (ed.), Gerasa. City of the Decapolis, New Haven: 353-494.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note It cannot be proven that this group had a permanent structure, but the fact that it refers to construction work undertaken 10 years in the past certainly speaks in favour of this view.