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451.

Choregic dedication of Agasias for the City Dionysia

IG II3 4 567 Date: ii AD
Notes:
... 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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452.

Cypriot League honours Hadrian

IG II2 3296 Date: ca. 132 AD
Notes:
... epigraphic evidence for Hadrian at Athens, see IG II2 5185 with notes. The dedicator of this statue was the league comprising all the cities in the i...
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453.

Harbour fees and the cult of Poseidon at Sounion

IG I3 8 Date: ca. 460-450 BC
Notes:
... S. Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens (2018), 950-59. For the only extant inscribed decree of the deme, IG II2 1180. It was already home to a quadr...
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454.

Grave stele of Eumachos

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 6 Date: early iv BC
Notes:
[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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455.

Edict of priest of Apollo Erithaseos

IG II2 1362 Date: Ca. 350-300 BC
Notes:
... 5th and 4th century BC Athens of an inscribed edict issued by an individual, namely a priest, albeit that he is careful to associate himself with the...
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456.

Julius Herodianos and Herodes honour Hadrian

IG II2 3316 Date: ca. 132 AD
Notes:
[1] This is one of over fifty statue bases for the Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD) attested from Athens. The epithet "Olympios" indicates a date afte...
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457.

Decree of Lamptrai honouring Philokedes of Acharnai

IG II2 1204 Date: ca. 325-300 BC
Notes:
... Jones, The Associations of Classical Athens, 1999, 163-4) as a reference to the Lamptraian Rural Dionysia, which they assume was celebrated by both parts of the deme together, and was per...
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458.

Honours (for an Athenian)

IG II3 1 1280 Date: Shortly after 188/7 BC
Notes:
... the latter's role in supporting Athens when invaded by Philip V in 200 (Livy 31.25).
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459.

Proxeny for Demokrates of Lampsakos

IG II3 1 293 Date: 351/0 BC or 348/7 BC
Notes:
... honorand as a representative of Athens in his own city. Others included the right to own property in Attica (enktesis), invitation to "hospitality" (or "dinner" for citizens) in the ...
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460.

Dedication of booty by the cavalry

IG I3 511 Date: 450-430 BC?
Notes:
... earlier in 458/7 (Horsemen of Athens, 1988, 45-52; what else is known of the commanders, however, perhaps suggests a later date, cf. n. 2). In the first century AD, the base was fl...
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461.

Honours for a cavalry commander

IG II3 1 1281 Date: 187/6 BC
Notes:
... a prominent family of hellenistic Athens, see C. Habicht, Studien (1982), 194-97. [4] The decree of around the same period honouring the hipparchs, Agora XVI 270 begins (l. 4) with a...
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462.

Dedication for Athena Hygieia

IG I3 506 Date: c. 430 BC
Notes:
... outbreak of the plague in Athens in 430/29 (Thucydides 2.48-55). In any case it probably predates the introduction of the cult of Asklepios on the south slope of the Acropolis ...
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463.

Kioniskos of Thrason

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 64 Date: mid-i BC
Notes:
... a road from Piraeus to Athens. It was eventually loaded onto the ship Hydra at the behest of Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2), after some difficulties due to its size, and i...
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464.

Grave stele of Agathemeris and Sempronius Niketes

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 43 Date: ca. AD 150-200
Notes:
... stone had been excavated in Athens in 1818 by the British consul Logothetis just before the War of Independence on a road to Piraeus. A deeply carved relief dating to the Antonin...
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465.

Dedication to Apollo Hypo Makrais

IG II3 4 199 Date: ii-iii AD
Notes:
... other inscriptions originating from central Athens found at the monastery of Daphni see IG II3 4, 207 with notes.
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466.

Grave stele of Eupolemos and family

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 2 Date: ca. early iv BC
Notes:
... among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). It belongs to a genre of Attic funerary monuments which listed members of a family across more than one ge...
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467.

Grave stele of Demetria

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 27 Date: 360-340 BC
Notes:
... Gordon (1784-1860). Aberdeen had visited Athens in 1803, and served as British Prime Minister from 1852 to 1855; his son donated the relief to the British Museum in 1861. Demetria is seated o...
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468.

Dedication by managers of tribe Leontis, 357/6 BC

IG II3 4 207 Date: 357/6 BC
Notes:
... have been moved out from Athens to Daphni for building purposes. This is unusual, but does occur; cf. IG II2 488 with M. N. Tod, ABSA 9, 1902-3, 155-56. [2] The chief offici...
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469.

Grave stele of Chairippe

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 5 Date: early iv BC
Notes:
... Zograffos, at whose house in Athens Inwood found this monument, was a guide and servant of Lord Byron, who had travelled to England with the poet and later returned to Greece to f...
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470.

Dedication of an (ephebic?) gymnasiarch commemorating victory in a torch-race

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 4 Date: after 334/3 BC?
Notes:
... life. The original findspot within Athens of this inscription is uncertain. However, it may have been set up at a tribal sanctuary in the city. If the relief celebrates an ephebic vict...
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471.

Grave stele of Kleo (?)

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 26 Date: 360-340 BC
Notes:
... by Lord Elgin, probably in Athens (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). It depicts a woman labelled as Xeno seated on a high-backed chair, perhaps suggesting her advanced age or social maturit...
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472.

Honours (?)

IG II3 1 1417 Date: Ca. 200-150 BC
Notes:
... stoa of Zeus Eleutherios at Athens cf. Agora III 38.
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473.

Marker of property of the Piraeans

AIO 2035 Date: 400-300 BC
Notes:
... Jones, The Associations of Classical Athens (1999), 59 = SEG 49.175 (not an Attic prose form). See also P. Gauthier, Bull. ép. 2005, no. 203 (somewhat sceptical). We must conclude that it...
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474.

Grave stele of a daughter of Euphrosynos

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 13 Date: ii AD
Notes:
... This inscription was acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). The first preserved letter (eta) should form the end of a female name, likely followed by her father's nam...
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475.

Funerary monument of an Athenian on Aegina

IG I3 1503 Date: Ca. 457-431 BC
Notes:
... designated by his city (i.e. Athens) rather than his deme, which was only used for identification within Attica; this is duly done, but it seems only as an afterthought as ‘Antist...
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476.

Dedication to Goddess Roma and Augustus

IG II3 4 11 Date: After 27 BC
Notes:
... the cult of Augustus at Athens, see Agora XVI 336 with notes.
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477.

Choregic dedication of Meneteles for the City Dionysia

IG II3 4 439 Date: ca. end of 5th cent. BC (I) / ca. 300 BC (II)
Notes:
... was a sculptor active in Athens during the last quarter of the fourth and first quarter of the third century BC, well attested by literary and epigraphic evidence (e.g., IG II...
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478.

Decree of a thiasos of Bendis on Salamis (272/1 BC)

SEG 59.151 Date: 272/1 BC
Notes:
... the orgeones of the city (Athens) were founded, cf. IG II2 1283. Since the officials for the year of Hieron named in IG II2 1317b and SEG 59.155 are different, two distinct Sal...
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479.

Honours for the officials in charge of revenues

IG II3 1 1302 Date: 181/0 BC
Notes:
... responsibilities were also divided between Athens' two commercial centres, the city and the Piraeus. [Lambert]
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480.

Dedication of a statue to Dionysos (and Apollo?) at Ikarion

Csapo and Wilson II, 145-48 Date: ca. 525 BC
Notes:
... on the far side from Athens. Its civic and religious centre has been known since the 18th century, and was first excavated in the late 19th century (C. D. Buck, Papers of ...
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