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391.Honours for Hadrian
Raubitschek, Hadrian 1 Date: 117-138 AD
Notes:
392.
[1] These fragments come from a plaque that formed the front face of a large statue base, one of over fifty known bases erected at Athens for the Emp...
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Choregic dedication of Agasias for the City Dionysia
IG II3 4 567 Date: ii AD
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393.
... the eponymous archon, leader of Athens as a whole (“Kekropia” is a poetic name for Athens). The archon's name would have appeared in l. 6. Aren the p...
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Decrees honouring ephebes and their superintendent, 40/39 or 39/38 BC
AIUK 4.2 (BM, Decrees of Council and Assembly) no. 16 Date: 40/39 or 39/38 BC
Notes:
394.
[1] Fragment b of this inscription (containing the left side of ll. 4-32) was acquired in Athens by Lord Strangford, British ambassador to the ...
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Dedication by an ephebic team, 145/6 AD
IG II3 4 419 Date: 145/6 AD
Notes:
395.
[1] This is Arrian the politician and historian (PIR2 F219). A native of Nicomedia, he was archon of Athens in 145/6 AD (Byrne, Roman Citizens, 259, ...
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Grave stele of Eumachos
AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 6 Date: early iv BC
Notes:
396.
[1] This funerary monument dating to the early 4th century BC is among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Richard Chandler in 1765-6 and presente...
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Catalogue of ephebes, 191/2 AD (?)
IG II2 2119 Date: AD 189/90 – 191/2
Notes:
397.
... On damnatio memoriae in Imperial-period Athens, see IG II3 4, 1397 with notes.
[7] For the ephebic archons, see IG II2 2017 and AIO Papers 12 s...
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Decree of the Kerykes honouring Xenokles of Sphettos
I Eleusis 87 Date: 332-324 BC (?)
Notes:
398.
... a leading figure in Lykourgan Athens. See below note 3 and IG II3 4, 212 with notes.
[3] This office was probably established in 336 (cf. D. M. Lew...
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Dedication commemorating a priesthood of Pandion
AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 1 Date: ca. 360-325 BC
Notes:
399.
[1] This was among the objects acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). Like most of the inscriptions he collected, there is no recor...
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Statue base for Regilla
I Eleusis 476 Date: 160-161 AD
Notes:
400.
... first priestess of Fortune at Athens (IG II2 3607) and priestess of Demeter Chamyne at Olympia in 153 AD, where she funded the construction of the gr...
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List of cavalrymen escorting the second Hellenistic Pythais at Delphi, 128/7 BC
F.Delphes III 2 27 Date: 128/7 BC
Notes:
401.
... association (koinon) of cavalrymen in Athens and key cavalry commanders (F.Delphes III 2, 46, also in 128/7 BC), to which it is linked by the opening...
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Honours for Hadrian
IG II2 3311 Date: c. 132-138
Notes:
402.
[1] This is one of over fifty statue bases for the Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD) attested from Athens. It was found on the Acropolis, in a wall to ...
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Restoration of the Piraeus walls
Maier, Mauerbauinschriften, no. 2 Date: 394/3 BC
Notes:
403.
... fee, together with construction. For Athens' treaty with Boeotia at the start of the Corinthian War see RO 6. For another occasion on which a Boeotia...
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Grave stele of Theophilos
AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 10 Date: ca. late iv BC
Notes:
404.
[1] This upper section of a funerary stele was among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). Datable to the late fo...
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Statue of Demetrios [of Phaleron] dedicated by demesmen of Sphettos
SEG 25.206 Date: ca. 315 BC ?
Notes:
405.
... Phanostratos of Phaleron who controlled Athens between 317 and 307 BC (other sources give the number as 300, cf. R. von den Hoff, in O. Palagia and S...
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Dedication of structures in the Asklepieion, 63/2 BC
IG II3 4 780 Date: 63/2 BC
Notes:
406.
... market officials, and priests in Athens and on Delos (Aleshire, Asklepios at Athens, 1991, p. 189). There were two water sources in the Asklepieion t...
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Concerning dedications in the sanctuary of Asklepios (274/3)
IG II3 1 898 Date: 274/3 BC
Notes:
407.
... votives (S. Aleshire, Asklepios at Athens, 1991, 41-46, pl. 11). Another decree and inventory (IG II3 1, 1010) were inscribed on the reverse of this ...
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Funerary dedications from the Persian Wars
AIO 1410 Date: 480-470 BC
Notes:
408.
... fought before the gates of Athens, unless the sense is metaphorical, and Athens is not really "by the sea". Matthaiou instead reads the "gates by the...
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Honours for Aristomachos of Argos
IG II3 1 1019 Date: 244/3 BC
Notes:
409.
[1] Lines 7-31 recount the services to Athens of Aristomachos' father or grandfather, ll. 32-45 the services rendered by Aristomachos himself, who, a...
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Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos by Isias
AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 13 Date: 2nd - 3rd cent. AD
Notes:
410.
[1] This is one of a number of inscribed dedications to “Zeus The All High” (Zeus Hypsistos) which were discovered in Athens in 1803 by George Hamilt...
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Honours for Polypeithes of Siphnos
SEG 50.45 Date: 422/1 BC (Decree 2), 409-385 BC (Decree 1)
Notes:
411.
... connection of Polypeithes' family with Athens continued in the fourth century democracy (Davies, APF 590–92 [C 12]), when they are found undertaking ...
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Grave stele of the nurse Melitta
AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 37 Date: ca. 330-320 BC
Notes:
412.
... be slaves and metics in Athens. Melitta was the daughter of a metic who had the privileged status of isoteles, paying taxes equal to citizens and exe...
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Monument commemorating war-dead?
AIUK 11 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) no. 11 Date: late v or early iv BC?
Notes:
413.
[1] This fragment was acquired by Thomas Burgon in Athens in 1814, along with some uninscribed funerary monuments, all probably deriving from excavat...
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Statue base for Casianus Antiochos Synesios
Oliver, Marcus Aurelius 20 Date: Early 3rd century AD
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414.
... the chair of rhetoric at Athens (Vit. Soph. 2.33). A funerary heroon was erected for him by his wife Antonina Sokratike (IG II2 13209). The Mouseion ...
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Altar for Hadrian
Benjamin, Altars of Hadrian 86 Date: 132 AD
Notes:
415.
[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, o...
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Honours for the herald of the Council and People and the prytany of Erechtheis
Agora XV 286 Date: ca. 45-25 BC
Notes:
416.
... S. I. Rotroff, Romanization of Athens, 1997, 166–167). He belongs to a prominent but complicated family that is attested from the late second century...
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Symmachos honours Aurelius Herakleides
IG II2 3801 Date: ca. 170-200 AD
Notes:
417.
... Stoic school of philosophy at Athens (founded by Zeno of Kition). He may be identical with the Stoic philosopher Herakleides whose criticism of Arist...
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Proxeny for military figures
IG II3 1 1077 Date: Ca. 262-230 BC
Notes:
418.
... clearly military figures (mercenaries?, Habicht, Athens 165) who had done significant service for Athens.
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Two decrees of Kyd[athenaion]
Agora XVI 68 Date: ca. 350-315 BC (?)
Notes:
419.
... inscription within the city of Athens (albeit that other inscriptions of extraurban demes have sometimes been found in the city, see e.g. IG II2 1176...
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Dedication to Pankrates by officials of a friendly society (eranistai)
IG II3 4 649 Date: 300/299 BC
Notes:
420.
... was outside the walls of Athens, beside the river Ilissos (the present-day area, "Pangrati", derives its name from it). The god was sometimes, as her...
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Grave marker of Mousonia(s?)
AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 14 Date: ii-iii AD (a), ii AD (b)
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[1] This grave marker is among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). An earlier inscription (2nd century AD) gives...
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