IGII34 970 Dedication to Dionysos from Eleusis

Dedication to Dionysos from Eleusis

IG II³ 4 970 Date: Late-iv BC

Demonike daughter of Aischraios of Pithos dedicated (this) to Dionysos.^[1]

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References:

IG II³ 4 970 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 4604 (PHI)

I Eleusis 103 (PHI)

Csapo and Wilson II, 109-10

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Images: Cornell - (1)

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Dionysos)

Findspot: Eleusis (Eleusis Museum E 987)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] On the theatre of Dionysos as the venue of the Dionysia of the deme Eleusis see I Eleusis 53, with notes. This dedication, which perhaps derives from the associated sanctuary, is unusual among Classical dedications to Dionysos as being by a woman and notable in that she identifies as daughter of a man from Pithos, a deme away from Eleusis. It can be dated only approximately by letter forms and by the possibility that the dedicant's father was the Aischraios who was councillor for Kekropis in ca. 360-340 BC, Agora XV 20, l. 22. There is a cutting in the top for a votive.

Added: 14 Apr 2021
Updated: 13 May 2021
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