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Dedication for generals by soldiers, 111/0 BC

IG II3 4 276 Date: 111/0 BC
Notes:
... most prestigious military official in Athens: G. J. Oliver, War, Food, and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens (2007), 163-64. The general of the fl...
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272.

Funerary monument. Python of Oinoe and Philte

AIUK 2 (BSA) no. 10 Date: c. mid-4th cent. BC
Notes:
... to the British School at Athens. The anthemia (flowery decoration at the top) are of broadly similar design and the lettering is so similar that we m...
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273.

Athenian and mercenary soldiers at Eleusis and the Eleusinians honour a general, Aristophanes of Leukonoion

I Eleusis 196 Date: Ca. 234 BC
Notes:
... war in general see Habicht, Athens, 163-66). When the preserved section of the decree of the soldiers (Decree 1) begins, it is in the middle of a des...
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274.

Statue base of Claudia Demetria

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 26 Date: ca. 40 – 124/5 AD
Notes:
... that it derives from central Athens, and perhaps from the Acropolis, where honorific statues were commonly set up in this period. In post-Sullan A...
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275.

Choregic dedication of Oineis for the City Dionysia, honouring Philopappos

IG II3 4 559 Date: 85/6-93/4 AD
Notes:
... and also received citizenship of Athens, where he was eponymous archon sometime between 85/6 and 92/3 AD (Follet and Peppas-Delmouzou, pp. 97-98) or ...
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276.

Altar for Hadrian

SEG 21.711 Date: 132 AD
Notes:
[1] This is one of over a hundred surviving altars from Athens dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD), as saviour, founder, and Olympios. T...
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277.

Restoration of the Piraeus walls

Maier, Mauerbauinschriften, no. 1 Date: 395/4 BC
Notes:
... of the requirements imposed on Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War was the destruction of the long walls and the Piraeus walls. Athens in effe...
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278.

Abydos honours Hadrian

IG II2 3290 Date: ca. 132 AD
Notes:
[1] This statue base is part of a group erected for Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD) in the precinct of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. On Hadrian at Ath...
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279.

Honours for Arybbas king of the Molossians

IG II3 1 411 Date: 342? BC
Notes:
[1] At nearly 3 metres preserved height, this is the largest honorific inscription to survive from ancient Athens. On the significance of this cf. IG...
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280.

Honours for Prienian Ambassadors

IG II2 565 Date: Late fourth century BC
Notes:
... was likely triggered by both Athens and Priene entering into the same Antigonid sphere of influence (see C. Habicht, Athens from Alexander to Antony,...
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281.

Decree of artists of Dionysos honouring their manager, Philemon

I Eleusis 271 Date: ca. 76 BC or shortly after
Notes:
... theatrical artists of Dionysos” at Athens in the 2nd cent. AD see see AIUK 4.3A, no. 9. [2] These lines apparently referred to Athens’ Civilizing ...
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282.

Decree on the repair of a statue of Athena Nike

IG II3 1 444 Date: Ca. 336-330 BC
Notes:
... with the Past in Lykourgan Athens", in L. Foxhall et al. eds., Intentional History (2010), 225-38 = IALD II, 115-31; "Some Political Shifts in Lykour...
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283.

Dedication of the Athenian Stoa at Delphi

IG I3 1464 Date: End of the sixth or first half of the fifth cent. BC
Notes:
... eds., Innovations and Inventions in Athens, 2020, 219-20). In the former case, the project might have been conceived and implemented in the early yea...
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284.

Base for Septimius Severus

AIO 2736 Date: 193-211 AD
Notes:
... Augusta the ]|[ saviour of Athens] and of Athena [Polias (dedicated this statue), having sacrificed and obtained] | [good omens about a greater work ...
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285.

Honours for the prytany of Ptolemais, 192/1 BC

AIUK 4.2 (BM, Decrees of Council and Assembly) no. 15 Date: 192/1 BC
Notes:
[1] Fragment c of this inscription (containing lines 25-39 and the left side of ll. 40-44) was acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin and was among the obj...
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286.

Funerary stele for Epiktesis, daughter of Onasos of Kytherros

AIUK 11 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) no. 14bis Date: ca. 150-200 AD
Notes:
... is a well-attested name at Athens, and becomes more common in the imperial period. If, as is likely here, "of Kytherros" is a demotic rather than the...
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287.

Bilingual grave stele of Artemidoros of Sidon

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 11 Date: ca. 340 BC
Notes:
... funerary monuments for members of Athens' large resident Phoenician community. They were often traders and so congregated around the port of Piraeus....
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288.

Dedication by the treasurers of Athena

IG I3 510 Date: ca. 550 BC
Notes:
... evidence for archival practices at Athens, cf. J. P. Sickinger, Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens (1999), 39-40. Andokides (l. 4) was p...
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289.

Decree on the administration of the property of Kodros, Neleus and Basile

IG I3 84 Date: 418/7 BC
Notes:
... gave his life to save Athens from the Dorians, and Neleus was his father (alternatively king of Pylos, cf. Hdt. 5.65). [4] The precise meaning of ...
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290.

Choregic monument of Nikias, 320/19 BC

IG II3 4 467 Date: 320/19 BC
Notes:
... during the oligarchy imposed on Athens by Antipater after Athens’ defeat in the Lamian War. The latest dated choregic monuments commemorating victori...
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291.

Sarcophagus for Aelius Epikrates of Berenikidai

AIUK 8 (Broomhall) no. 5 Date: ca. 125-150 AD (chest); ca. 200-250 AD (lid, with inscription)
Notes:
... number of them deriving from Athens (Attic sarcophagi were also exported in large numbers), but inscriptions on sarcophagi discovered in Athens are v...
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292.

Proxeny decree for Nikeratos of Alexandria

IG II3 1 1374 Date: Ca. 180
Notes:
... evidence for good contacts between Athens and Ptolemaic Cyprus at this period see Habicht, Athens, 221; Class. Ant. 11 (1992), 80-81. [2] Either th...
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293.

Posthumous honours for Zeno of Kition

IG II3 1 980 Date: 262/1 BC
Notes:
... of philosophy, had lived in Athens for about fifty years. [4] Neither of these inscribed versions of this decree survive. [5] In the period of At...
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294.

Letter from Hadrian on gifts for the boys (132 AD)

Oliver, Constitutions 85 Date: 132 AD
Notes:
... third and final visit to Athens, during which he inaugurated the Temple of Zeus Olympios. The "Olympios" inscribed on a sculpted shield in the pedime...
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295.

Cult provisions on an inscribed altar from the City Eleusinion

AIUK 4.1 (BM, Cult Provisions) no. 1 Date: ca. 510-470 BC
Notes:
... (ll. 15-30) was found in Athens (in an unspecified wall) by Richard Chandler in 1765-6 and acquired by him for the Society of Dilettanti, which in tu...
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296.

List of demesmen

Lambert and Pitt, Grammateion 2024 no. 1 Date: 340/39 or 313/2 BC
Notes:
[1] Textual Note. All editions of this list of names have been based on a transcript made by the Abbé Michel Fourmont on his visit to Athens in 1729....
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297.

Honours for the Council, councillors and Council officials

IG II3 1 306 Date: 343/2 BC
Notes:
... P. Harding, The Story of Athens [2008], 8), is one of the most prominent figures in Athenian decrees at this period. In Decree 2 he proposes a Counci...
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298.

List of a board of archons

AIO 2660 Date: 9 BC – ca. 75 AD, probably 40s AD
Notes:
... the most prestigious office in Athens and was sometimes held by Roman emperors (usually in absentia) and other powerful foreigners (e.g. AIUK 11 (Ash...
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299.

Catalogue of ephebes, 139/40 AD

Wilson, Ephebic Inscriptions E.181 Date: 139/40 AD
Notes:
... prominent families in second century Athens. His career is summarised in IG II2 3592. For the date, see Byrne, RCA, p. 508. [6] For the monthly ep...
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300.

Statue erected by Emperor Theodosius II

IG II2 5 13285 Date: 421-441 AD
Notes:
... of a Roman emperor with Athens. The statue might have been a depiction of the Empress Aelia Eudocia, whose erection had been managed by one or more m...
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