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481.

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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482.

Decrees honouring Eumaridas of Kydonia and his son Charmion

IG II3 1 1137 Date: 228/7, 211/0 and 193/2 BC
Notes:
[1] The three decrees were inscribed together by the same hand in 193/2. [2] The context was perhaps the "War of Demetrios", 239-229. Cf. Habicht, ...
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483.

Dedication to Eileithyia on behalf of Julia Rufina

AIUK 2 (BSA) no. 6 Date: ca. 150 AD
Notes:
... priest of Olympian Zeus at Athens and phaidyntes at Olympia, while their son was Hierokeryx, a priestly office in the Eleusinian Mysteries). It seems...
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484.

Dedication of a helmet by Rhamnousians on Lemnos

IG I3 522 bis Date: 475-450 BC ?
Notes:
... with similar lettering, dedicated at Athens and Olympia, might be products of the same campaign (IG I3 518, 1466, and 1472). Alternatively, the "Rhamnousians on Lemnos" might be a group o...
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485.

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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486.

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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487.

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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488.

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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489.

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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490.

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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491.

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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492.

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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493.

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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494.

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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495.

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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496.

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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497.

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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498.

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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499.

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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500.

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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501.

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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502.

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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503.

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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504.

Dedication by an ephebe victor

IG II3 4 410 Date: 1st cent. AD
Notes:
... of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12.
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505.

Letter to Hadrian or Antoninus Pius

AIUK 4.3A (BM, Decrees of Other Bodies) no. 8 Date: 128-161 AD
Notes:
... by Lord Elgin, perhaps in Athens (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). For discussion see AIUK 4.3A, no. 9.
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506.

Honours for the commissioners for refurbishment of the Tholos

IG II3 1 1300 Date: 181/0 BC
Notes:
... be ruled out. Cf. Habicht, Athens, 222. [2] "Sunshade", Skias, was the term commonly used to refer to the building in the Agora also known as the tholos or "rotunda", since in...
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507.

Decrees about reassessment of tribute of the Delian League, 425/4 BC ("Thoudippos' decrees")

AIO 959 Date: 425/4 BC
Notes:
... which was taken over by Athens in 431. [13] The first digit is restored and what survives of the rest of the number would also be consistent with 960 talents, though the hi...
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508.

Dedication by an ephebe victor

IG II3 4 413 Date: 1st-2nd cents. AD
Notes:
... of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12.
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509.

Dedication by an ephebic superintendent

IG II3 4 416 Date: 117-138 AD
Notes:
... of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12.
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510.

Funerary naiskos of Metagenes

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 34 Date: 350-300 BC
Notes:
... it there rather than in Athens then it might have been sold at Istanbul or at least shipped from there. It is an upper section of a naiskos stele crowned by a pediment with a...
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