Voor mijn Belgische vrienden miCHelS (2011) on ruler cults in Pergamon; Pfeiffer (2008) on Ptolemaic Egypt; mittag (2011) on Kommagene; on texts and coins, see e.g. ioSSif (2011) and eriCkSon (2018; 2019).
9.An overview of the current debate in Greek epigraphy, at least in the English-speaking scholarship, reveals a renewed attention for the material aspects of writing and support and for the development of cross-disciplinary methodologies drawing on the toolkits of both philology and archaeology: see the methodological introduction by PetroviC (2019) to PetroviC -PetroviC -tHomaS (2019); among the papers collected there, see in particular mylonoPouloS (2019) on dedicatory texts on Hellenistic sacred buildings and altars. Part of the purpose of the current book is to bridge the gap between this methodological trend and the study of Hellenistic cults for rulers.12. I align myself with an interpretation of 'sacredness' as a socially constructed (and often legally regulated) status by which an object, a place, or a person is considered as an effective instrument of communication with the super-human sphere. For a brief overview of the 20 th -century-debate concerning the understanding of 'sacred' as an inherent (and possibly universal) or sociallyconstructed (and therefore context-related) property of things, see tarot (2009); for a linguistic study based on ancient Greek literary sources, see rudHardt (2008), p. 151-154, with a brief bibliographical update by the editors of the book at p. 154. 13. In this respect, see PeelS (2016) for a linguistic analysis of the semantic domain of hosios, broadening the limits of sacredness in social life beyond the more restricted sphere related to hieros. 14. A fundamental reference in this respect is provided by geertz (1973), which directly influenced the study of Roman emperor worship by PriCe (1980; 1984a; 1984b). For a broader application to ancient polytheisms, see in particular SCHeid (1999) on the case of Roman sacrificial rituals. * Cette étude a beaucoup profité de deux périodes de recherche à Chypre (2016) et à Santorini (2018) dans les cadres d'une bourse Marie Curie Piscopia à l'Université de Padoue et d'un mandat de chargé de recherche du FNRS à l'Université de Liège. Le séjour à Santorini a été cofinancé par une bourse de la European Association of Digital Humanities destinée à soutenir la récolte de données numé riques et géo-référencées pour le projet PHRC. Dans cet article, le sigle PHRC + numéro se réfère aux textes déjà mis en ligne sur la plateforme www.phrc.it au moment de la publication de ce volume. Je tiens à exprimer ma gratitude au Prof. Pavlos Flourentzos du Département des Antiquités de Chypre pour m'avoir permis d'étudier l'autel cylindrique d'Arsinoé trouvé dans la ville basse d'Amathonte. Je désire aussi remercier le Prof. Thomas Cramer de l'Universidad Nacional de Colombia ainsi que le Prof. Felix Pirson et les Dr. Seçil Tezer Altay, Joachim Heiden et Bernhard Ludwig du DAI Istanbul pour avoir discuté avec moi des détails de l'archéologie de Perg...
