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The same engraver inscribed a decree and letter of Lysimachus. Above the edict is the temple's dedicatory inscription in the Ionic dialect, which was erected by Alexander himself. [3] All these inscriptions are now in the British Museum. [4] The fragmentary inscription reads:
The Priene inscription is a dedicatory inscription by Alexander the Great, which was discovered at the Temple of Athena Polias in Priene (modern Turkey), in the nineteenth century. It now forms an important part of the British Museum 's Ancient Greek epigraphic collection and provides a direct link to one of the most famous persons in ancient ...
Second part of the calendar inscription of Priene. The Priene calendar inscription (IK Priene 14) is an inscription in stone recovered at Priene (an ancient Greek city, in Western Turkey) that records an edict by Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of the Roman province of Asia and a decree of the conventus of the province accepting the edict from 9 BC.
The Alexander's inscription. It is "King Alexander dedicated the temple to Athena Polias. [9]" British Museum. This dedication originally was not for this temple. The Alexander firstly found the temple of Artemis in Ephesos for dedication. [10] However, he was refused. [10] Thereafter, he, travelling alongside the coast, found Priene and gave ...
Priene inscription may refer to: Priene inscription of Alexander the Great ( c. 330 BC) Alexander the Great's edict to Priene (334 BC, but inscribed in the 280s BC)
Heisserer, A. J. (1973) "Alexander's Letter to the Chians: A Redating of SIG 3 283." Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 22(2): 191–204. JSTOR 4435329; Heisserer, A. J. (1980) Alexander the Great and the Greeks: The Epigraphic Evidence. University of Oklahoma Press. Piejko, Francis. (1985) "The 'Second Letter' of Alexander the Great to ...
After the capture of Halicarnassus Alexander sent his newly married soldiers home to spend the winter with their families. [5] Alexander committed the government of Caria to Ada; and she, in turn, formally adopted Alexander as her son, ensuring that the rule of Caria passed unconditionally to him upon her eventual death.
A decree was issued by Theodosius offering the offending pagans pardon and calling for the destruction of all pagan images, suggesting that these were at the origin of the commotion. Consequently, the Serapeum was either destroyed, or (as per Sozomen) converted into a Christian temple, as were the buildings dedicated to the Egyptian god Canopus ...