LAODICEA
Iran.
A Seleucid city adjacent to
modern Nihavand. According to Pliny, it was founded
by Antiochos I. Chance finds include a stele with an
inscription of 193 B.C. of Antiochos III in behalf of a
cult of his queen, and a round altar with ribbons carved
in relief and bronze statuettes of Zeus, Athena, Apollo,
and Demeter. Furthermore, at Magnesia in Asia Minor
a stone was found bearing a decree passed at Laodicea
during the reign of Antiochos III. The site may also have
been known as Antioch-in-Persis.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Plin. 6.116;
Strab. 11.13.6; E. R. Bevan,
The House of Seleucus I (1902) 265; L. Robert,
Hellenica
VII (1949) 1-30; R. Ghirshman,
Persian Art. The Parthian
and Sassanian Dynasties, 249 B.C-A.D. 651 (1962) 18
I.
D. N. WILBER