Survival of Apollodorus Earthquake
Ambraseys (2009) discussed an
inscription found in
Byblos which may allude to the
303–306 CE Eusebius Martyr
Quake. He notes that “an inscription from an altar in Byblus
records the survival of one Apollodorus after an earthquake”
(Dussaud, 1896:299). The inscription was dated by
Seyrig to the second or third century, which,
as Ambraseys explains, “would seem to indicate that it is not
connected with this earthquake” (H. Seyrig, personal
communication, 5 July 1972). However,
Ambraseys (2009) argues that because
provincial
epigraphy “is often slower to change than that
in major centres,” and since “there is no other earthquake
recorded for this location during the second or third century,”
the inscription has been “very tentatively allocated to this
event.” JW: I did not find any mention of an incription mentioning
Apollodorus in Dussaud (1896).