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541.

Honours for Euenor of Akarnania

IG II3 1 324 Date: 337/6 and 322/1 BC
Notes:
... Akarnanians who took refuge in Athens with Phormio and Karphinas after Chaironeia (see IG II3 1, 316).
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542.

Sale of confiscated property and mine leases, 367/6 BC

Agora XIX P5 Date: 367/6 BC
Notes:
... dire financial situation (which prevented Athens from continuing the Social War with some of its allies at that time), was to be ameliorated. Later poletai records suggest intensified producti...
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543.

Choregic dedication from Anagyrous

IG I3 969 Date: After ca. 440 BC
Notes:
... 55-6); he last competed at Athens in 408 BC and died in 406 BC. This is one of several pieces of evidence that the plays of major Athenian playwrights were staged in Attic local...
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544.

Dedication by a competition-director

IG II3 4 522 Date: End-4th cent. – early 3rd cent. BC
Notes:
... involved in performance competitions at Athens, remarked on IG II3 4, 460 n. 2, is particularly notable in the agonothetic monuments of the early Hellenistic period.
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545.

Statue base for the hierophant who saved the sacred objects of the Mysteries

I Eleusis 515 Date: 191/2 AD or shortly after
Notes:
... of Kekrops (mythical king of Athens); hence a poetic name for the Athenians. [6] Cf. I Eleusis 494.
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546.

Grave stele of Hippokrates and Baukis

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 3 Date: early iv BC
Notes:
... among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). The names of a man and (probably) a woman, Hippokrates and Baukis (husband and wife?), are inscribed at th...
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547.

The sacrificial calendar of the Marathonian Tetrapolis

SEG 50.168 Date: Ca. 375-350 BC?
Notes:
... to Marathon and then to Athens (Od. 7.80) and may be referenced by a fifth-cent. marker (horos) of a temenos of Athena found in the region, IG I3 1082. She is worshipped at t...
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548.

Honours for Eris of Byzantium and other Byzantines

IG II3 1 1238 Date: Ca. 200 BC or later
Notes:
... by Rome, Attalos, Rhodes and Athens against Philip V of Macedon (Polyb. 16.25-26; Livy 31.14-15), in which Byzantium was associated with Attalos and Rhodes (Polyb. 16.2, 10). Howe...
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549.

Dedication to Eurysakes

IG II3 4 14 Date: i BC – i AD?
Notes:
... Melite, in the city of Athens (Paus. 1.35, Plut. Solon 10.3). This base probably comes from the sanctuary of Eurysakes, which was controlled by the genos Salaminioi (cf. RO ...
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550.

Honours for Phanokritos of Parion, 386/5 BC

AIO 801 Date: 386/5 BC
Notes:
... named an official benefactor of Athens, and that Kephalos (a prominent politician) succeeded in having the Assembly upgrade this to include the title of proxenos, which commonly (but...
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551.

Dedication by Achaians (Eleusis)

IG II3 4 219 Date: ii AD (?)
Notes:
... another Achaian inscription in Imperial-period Athens, see Oliver, Constitutions 78. Torches played a significant role in the ritual of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
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552.

Dedication by a thiasos

IG II3 4 651 Date: 256/5 BC
Notes:
... Hygieia, whose major sanctuary in Athens was next to the theatre of Dionysos, where the inscription was found. This would be consistent with the listing of members without patronymics ...
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553.

Memorial of Athenian infantry killed in Corinthian War (394 BC)

IG II2 5221 Date: 394 BC
Notes:
... Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens, 251). It is notable not only that one public and one private monument (IG II2 6217) commemorate the cavalry in this year’s battles, but that h...
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554.

Kioniskos of Theodotos

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 68 Date: i BC - i AD
Notes:
... Syrian Antioch when found at Athens, but there were several other cities of this name (see AIUK 4.6, no. 66 for a similar problem of identifying people from Herakleia). For more d...
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555.

Honours for a courtier of Philip II

IG II3 1 322 Date: 337/6 BC
Notes:
... assassination had apparently not reached Athens at the time the decree was passed.
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556.

Dedication to Asklepios by the Asklepiastai

IG II3 4 653 Date: ca. 229/8-203 BC
Notes:
... in Classical and early Hellenistic Athens, of a dedication by what seems to be a “private” association of citizens, i.e. one not (so far as we know) organised on the basis of the usual ...
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557.

Dedication to Apollo Hypo Makrais

IG II3 4 128 Date: Mid-i AD
Notes:
... the ten annual archons of Athens: the eponymous archon, the "king" (basileus), the polemarch, the six court presidents (thesmothetai) and their secretary, in the early first ce...
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558.

Dedication by the cavalry to Salamis

IG II3 4 323 Date: ca. 320 BC
Notes:
... R. Bugh, The Horsemen of Athens, 1988, 212-13). Although drawn from a number of different demes, several of the dedicants’ families seem to have had longstanding connections t...
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559.

Honours for Euagoras of Salamis, ca. 410 or 407 BC (?)

AIO 1970 Date: ca. 410 or 407 BC (?)
Notes:
... king with making war on Athens in alliance with Sparta, Tissaphernes actually played one side off against the other until he was replaced as Persian commander in 407 by Cyrus...
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560.

Honours for Neoptolemos of Melite

IG II3 4 1057 Date: ca. 330 BC
Notes:
... prominent citizen benefactor in Lykourgan Athens, well documented in the literary record and epigraphically (see APF 10652; Athenian Onomasticon s.v. Neoptolemos). Demosthenes mentions that h...
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561.

Honours for the prytany treasurer of Antiochis

Agora XV 301 Date: mid-1st century BC-mid-1st century AD
Notes:
... a local level and for Athens as a whole (see RO 46 with notes). Although many of the settlements that the demes centred on continued to exist, evidence for demes as institu...
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562.

Dedication by ephebic gymnasiarch, 165/6 AD

IG II3 4 421 Date: 165/6 AD
Notes:
... of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12. [3] On Abaskantos, who served as ephebic trainer (paidotribes) for thirty-four years from 136/7 to 169/70 AD, see IG II2 3...
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563.

List of manumissions in court and dedicatory bowls

Malouchou, Two Overlooked Attic Inscriptions, no. 1 + addenda Date: ca. 336/5 - 322/1 BC
Notes:
... of the Archaeological Society at Athens. By comparing the two paper versions of the inscription, Malouchou identified the text as one of the phialai inscriptions, and later confirmed ...
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564.

Loutrophoros of Mnesimede

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 48 Date: 375-350 BC
Notes:
... Mnesimede has been reported from Athens, creating a potentially important link with our commemorated group. A marble lekythos of ca. 375-350 was discovered in 1989 during excavations ...
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565.

Citizenship for a poet

IG II3 1 856 Date: Ca. 295/4 BC
Notes:
... ff. Diodoros of Sinope?, Habicht, Athens p. 89).
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566.

List of crew of Athenian triremes

IG I3 1032 Date: Ca. 410-400 BC ?
Notes:
... real-life slaves attested in classical Athens and are important evidence for slave naming patterns. See K. Vlassopoulos, ZPE 175 (2010), 113-44, especially 126-28. [4] Citizen oarsmen: ma...
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567.

Payments from the treasury of Athena, 418/7–415/4 BC

OR 170 Date: 418/7-415/4 BC
Notes:
... at least four payments for Athens’ disastrous Sicilian expedition (ll. 49–58), cf. IG I3 93. Payments at this stage seem to have been relatively small. In 415/4, when much large...
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568.

Arches at Eleusis dedicated by Panhellenes to Demeter, Kore and the emperor

IG II3 4 217-218 Date: 2nd cent. AD
Notes:
... the Arch of Hadrian in Athens (see IG II2 5185 with notes). Several statue bases of Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius and his family found close to the arches can be assigned to the ...
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569.

Proxeny for Apollas son of Tharrhynon [of Kolophon?]

IG II3 1 1141 Date: Shortly after 229/8 BC
Notes:
... of raising revenue in Hellenistic Athens, see IG II3 1, 1011 with notes. [2] Apollas, who was clearly a resident foreigner, had contributed, like Aristokreon (IG II3 1, 1140), to t...
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570.

Athenian tribute list, 418/7 BC (?)

AIO 1172 Date: 418/7 BC (?)
Notes:
... [2] In ca. 425/4 Athens had demanded massively increased tribute from her allies (IG I3 34). Unfortunately evidence as to what happened next as regards tribute is thin...
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