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451.

The Artists of Dionysos honour Hadrian

SEG 47.222 Date: ca. 132 AD
Notes:
... (r. 117-138 AD) attested from Athens (on Hadrian and his relationship with Athens, see IG II2 5185 with notes). The findspot and the epithet "Olympio...
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452.

Honours for Hadrian

IG II2 3311 Date: c. 132-138
Notes:
[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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453.

Dedication to Pankrates by officials of a friendly society (eranistai)

IG II3 4 649 Date: 300/299 BC
Notes:
... 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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454.

Honours for a man from Argos

AIUK 4.2 (BM, Decrees of Council and Assembly) no. 8 Date: ca. 403-390 BC
Notes:
[1] This decree fragment from the early fourth century BC is among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). Like some...
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455.

Statue of Demetrios [of Phaleron] dedicated by demesmen of Sphettos

SEG 25.206 Date: ca. 315 BC ?
Notes:
... 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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456.

Decree of Halimous honouring Charisandros

SEG 2.7 Date: ca. 330 BC
Notes:
... also in other contexts at Athens. This is the only attestation of this procedure, however, for appointment to an Athenian priesthood, and we can not ...
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457.

Honours for Aristomachos of Argos

IG II3 1 1019 Date: 244/3 BC
Notes:
[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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458.

Grave stele of the nurse Melitta

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 37 Date: ca. 330-320 BC
Notes:
... 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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459.

Memorial of Athenian cavalry killed in the Corinthian War (394 BC)

IG II2 5222 Date: 394 BC
Notes:
... and an alliance of Corinth, Athens, Thebes and Argos, all of whom were uneasy about the way the Spartans were exercising the hegemony that she had ac...
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460.

Decree of the Tarantine cavalry squadron honouring cavalry commanders

SEG 46.167 Date: 282/1 BC
Notes:
... The contingent of Tarantinoi at Athens were probably a mercenary force. They first appear in this inscription, although a group of Tarantinoi had alr...
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461.

Herm commemorating a foster-child [of Herodes Atticus]

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 27 Date: ca. 150-180 AD
Notes:
... that Elgin acquired it in Athens and that it originally stood in Athens or Attica. The monument is a partially-preserved herm. It would originall...
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462.

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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463.

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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464.

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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465.

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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466.

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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467.

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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468.

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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469.

Dedication to Theseus by Sosippos

IG II3 4 1502 Date: Early 4th century BC
Notes:
... the cult of Theseus at Athens, see IG II3 4, 1503 with notes.
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470.

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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471.

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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472.

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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473.

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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474.

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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475.

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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476.

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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477.

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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478.

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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479.

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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480.

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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