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Biography
of Flavius Gerontios
The title Pater nominos, ’father of the customs’ or ’lawful father’ is also attested at Tomis (in Scythia) in connection with a priest of Hekate. For the use of fictive parental language for leaders or benefactors of associations, see Harland 2009.
Some of the statuettes bear inscriptions stating they were paid for by Fl. Gerontios in the year ‘500’, although there has been some deliberation as to what year this is in the modern calendar. If it is taken from the Seleucid calendar then it would be the equivalent of AD 188, while Ernest Will observed that, based on the local calendar of Sidon…
Some of the statuettes bear inscriptions stating they were paid for by Fl. Gerontios in the year ‘500’, although there has been some deliberation as to what year this is in the modern calendar. If it is taken from the Seleucid calendar then it would be the equivalent of AD 188, while Ernest Will observed that, based on the local calendar of Sidon…
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