Apollon Hylatès et Apollon César à Kourion : Contribution épigraphique à la topographie du sanctuaire
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2010
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Maria Kantiréa, « Apollon Hylatès et Apollon César à Kourion : Contribution épigraphique à la topographie du sanctuaire », Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, ID : 10.3406/cchyp.2010.965
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The sanctuary of Apollo Hylates near Kourion in southern Cyprus was one of the most important religious landscapes on the island in Antiquity. Four inscriptions from the reign of Trajan dedicated to the local god and to Apollo Caesar indicate that it underwent some intense building activity around this period and perhaps it also became a centre of the imperial cult. Nevertheless, a comparative study of the epigraphic material and the results of the excavations shows that the construction and restoration works may have already begun under the Flavians (i. e. under Domitian), very probably a few years after the earthquake of AD 76/ 77. It also gives some useful indications concerning the restitution of the fragmentary inscription engraved on the propylon of the east gate of the sanctuary.