Αφροδίτη Ευσχήμων από την Βέροια
Part of : Αρχαιογνωσία ; Vol.7, No.1-2, 1991, pages 135-140
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135-140
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Aphrodite Ευσχήμων from Beroea
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The inscription (Museum of Beroea no 133) is written on the other side of a triglyph in second use. ft was found out that the epithet of the goddess is attested for the first time; Aphrodite in Macedonia has up to now been epigraphically referred to as Βασίλισσα, 'Ομόνοια, Παφίη, Κυθερεία and as Ουρανία, Πειθώ, 'Αρμονία in the Derveni papyrus.The most interesting of the persons mentioned is the priest διά βίου Λ(εύκιος) Βρούττιος Ποπλικιανός, known from another inscription of Beroea as the priest also for life of Isis Lochia. The possibility that the two goddesses shared the same shrine and had been syncretized, retaining their individual characteristics, is discussed. It is pointed out that the testimonia on Isis Lochia comes exclusively from Macedonia (Thessalonike, Dion); in Stobi Artemis Lochia is attested. The next to be discussed is the title priest διά βίου, rare in Macedonia; an exhaustive elaboration on the subject, outside of the frame of this paper, could offer a lot to our understanding of the society of the period.Apphrodite Ευσχήμων is an interesting addition to the other recently discovered testimonia of Macedonia on cults not known before, as that for Apollo Έκατόμβαιος in Eordaea and Θεός Ύπόγαιος in Philippi. Indications for cults not yet attested epigraphically in Macedonia give some personal names as 'Αγοραίος for Athena, Artemis, Zeus and Hermes and Καρποφόρος for Demeter and Dionysos; only Demeter Karpophros is attested once on a relief representation of the goddes in the Archaeological Museum of Athens.
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