Public Life Section Our knowledge of the religious life of the Abderites is based on texts by ancient writers and inscriptions, figurines, cult vessels, reliefs and coins. Reliefs depicting Cybele and the hero Avlonitis, inscriptions mentioning Zeus Hypsistos, Zeus Eleutherios, Dionysus and Abderus, as well as figurines of gods and votive offerings from the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, provide us with insights into private and public worship.

Honorary decrees praising private individuals for their contributions to the city, inscriptions with laws, coins, state measures, weights and sealings, as well as objects which were parts of weapons contribute to the picture we have of the public life of the ancient Abderites and the inhabitants of Byzantine Polystylon.