Dedication to Adrasteia

Excavated in Portus in 1794 by Giovanni Maria Cassini.
Date: 201 AD. W. 0.53, h. 0.945, d. 0.405.

A dedication in Greek to the goddess Adrasteia by Caius Valerius Serenus for a safe journey of Septimius Severus, Julia Domna and Caracalla. The eastern goddess Adrasteia was associated with various other deities, such as Nemesis, Diana and Isis.

Ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας καὶ ἐπανόδου καὶ ἀϊδίου διαμονῆς τῶν κυρίων Αὐτοκρατόρ(ων) Σεουήρου καὶ Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Ἰουλίας Σεβ(αστῆς) καὶ τοῦ σύνπαντος αὐτῶν οἴκου καὶ ὑπὲρ εὐπλοίας παντὸς τοῦ στόλου τὴν Ἀδράστιαν σὺν τῷ περὶ αὐτὴν κόσμῳ Γ(άϊος) Οὐαλέριος Σερῆνος νεωκόρος τοῦ μεγάλου Σαράπιδος ὁ ἐπιμελητὴς παντὸς τοῦ Ἀλεξανδρείνου στόλου ἐπὶ Κλ(αυδίου) Ἰουλιανοῦ ἐπάρχου εὐθενείας

For the salvation and the return and the perpetual preservation of our lords, Emperors Severus and Antoninus and Iulia Augusta, as well as all their household, and for the happy navigation of all their fleet, (dedicated this statue) of Adrasteia, with all its ornaments, Caius Valerius Serenus, temple warden of the great Sarapis, the curator of the entire fleet of Alexandria, Claudius Iulianus being Prefect of the Annona.

Inv. nr. 2011. IG XIV, 917. RICIS 503/1207. Photo: Mary-Jane Cuyler. Vatican info.