Citations:krēnophylax

English citations of krēnophylax

• 1990, L. Michael White, Building God’s House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaptation among Pagans, Jews, and Christians, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), page 36:

  Bruneau³⁴ links House 95 (“La Maison de l’Inopos”) with epigraphic evidence for an office known as the Inopophylax or krēnophylax, the “guardian of the [sacred] spring of the Inopos.” If, as Bruneau suggests, the reference is to the Inopos drain, then we begin to see that construction of the Sarapeion encroached on a local landmark, the sacred spring of personified Inopos, of which the neighbor in House 95 was the hereditary guardian.