Survival of Apollodorus Earthquake Open this page in a new tab

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).

By Jefferson Williams