Eine fromme Familie aus Lydien und ihr Gott. Bemerkungen zu den Kommunikationsstrategien mit dem Göttlichen im ländlichen Kleinasien der Kaiserzeit
A pious Lydian family and their God. Remarks on the stategies of religious communication in the imperial Asia Minor countryside

Summary/Abstract: Studying a sacral dedication for the Anatolian god Men Motyleites, this paper aims at reconstructing some aspects of the strategies of religious communication in the countryside in Roman times, where numerous local gods were worshipped. The gods were represented and imagined as omnipotent kings ruling a territory and protecting their worshipers, as e.g. the tales of the confessional inscriptions testimony reveal. Tatiane and Glaukos, the ones dedicating, thank their god for protecting the birth of their adopted daughter, presenting and dedicating the child to Men. They define themselves as philotheoi (loving god) and emphasize that they have prayed only to the god Men Motyleites and no any other divinity, because he protects their home, family, property and health by using the adverb aei.

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