Inscription stories

From Eleusis to Macedonia

One of the most interesting inscribed monuments of Dion is the marble table slab, which was found in a second use as a grave cover of the Early Christian period in the northern cemetery of the city, near the village of Karitsa. The monument probably belongs to the well-known category of sacred tables on which …

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Women of the Mestrii family

Latin inscriptions dated to the 1st c. AD testify to the presence of three generations of the Mestrii family at the roman colony of Dion. Two women, Pomponia Aquilina and her daughter Mestria Aquilina, are included among the persons mentioned in these inscriptions. Pomponia Aquilina was honored by decree of the local government (curia) with …

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The lost paen of Asclepius

“favourable come to the vast city of the inhabitants of Dion, ie Paean” In 1914, two years after the liberation of Macedonia, the Ephor of Antiquities G. Oikonomos recorded and published a remarkable number of inscriptions from ancient Dion. In fact, he collected some of them, creating the first Archaeological Collection of Dion. The declaration …

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A votive offering of King Philip V to the sanctuary of Zeus Olympios at Dion

According to Polybius’ description, when the Aetolian general Scopas invaded Dion in 219 B.C., which its inhabitants had already abandoned, he razed the walls, the houses and the city’s gymnasium to the ground. At the same time, he burned down the porticoes around the temple of Zeus Olympios, destroyed the votive offerings that adorned the …

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