IGII34 696 + add. p. 686 Dedication to Asklepios by Leodamas

Dedication to Asklepios by Leodamas

IG II³ 4 696 + add. p. 686 Date: Mid-4th century BC

Λεωδάμα[ς Ἀχαρνεὺς] Ἀσκληπιῶ[ι ἀνέθηκε]

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References:

IG II³ 4 696 + add. p. 686 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 4381 (PHI)

SEG 61.171

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Pillar

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Asklepios)

Original location: Asklepieion

Findspot: Acropolis, south slope? (EM 5101)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This inscription is on the broad upper portion of a rectangular pillar monument dedicated to Asklepios, which would have originally stood in the Asklepieion on the south slope of the Athenian Acropolis. The dedicator is probably Leodamas son of Erasistratos of Acharnai, a student of Isokrates, who is mentioned critically by Demosthenes, Aischines, and Aristotle and belonged to a wealthy family attested from the mid-fifth until the late fourth century BC (J. K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families, 1971, 521-524). On the Asklepieion and its inscriptions, see IG II³ 4, 665. The same man seems to have also dedicated IG II³ 4, 696bis.

Added: 15 May 2025
Updated: 15 May 2025
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