Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PHILIA: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES, sa.3, ss.154-161, 2017 (Hakemli Dergi)
During the field work at Lyrboton Kome
near Perge in 2012 three altars were discovered that stand side by side
on the edge of a well-type cistern located in front of a monumental
building in the eastern centre of the settlement. Two blocks feature
Greek inscriptions, whether the third altar also bears an inscription is
uncertain owing to the block’s present position. The first of said two
inscriptions mentions a weapon (lancea) presented as a dedicatory
offering by Aurelius Demetrios after retirement from military service as
cornicularius in the Roman Army. The place where the name of the God
was given in line 1 is broken away, probably because of the stone’s
reuse at a later date. However, the word next to the damaged area is
Drymon, which is believed to be the god’s epithet. In a comment on the
Hellenistic poet Lykophron, the Byzantine scholar Ioannes Tzetzes
mentions that Zeus was worshipped in Pamphylia with the cult title of
Drymnios. Since said gap accommodates not more than four letters, we
assume that the deity in question is Zeus. The se-cond inscription gives
only the name of the dedicator (Sulla). The fact that the two
dedicatory inscriptions and the other altar were all found in the same
place in front of a large structure sug-gests that these monuments were
related to said structure, which was probably dedicated to Zeus Drymon.