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211.

Honours for a friend of king Eumenes II

IG II3 1 1257 Date: 196/5 BC
Notes:
... created in 307/6 (cf. Habicht, Athens, 194-204). In 197 Attalos was succeeded by his son, Eumenes II (197-158 BC), and this is the first of a long se...
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212.

Grave stele of a family from Sestos

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 28 Date: ca. 350 BC
Notes:
... deceased daughter. Names taken from Athens/Athena down to the late Classical period are normally held by citizens, which may suggest that the daughte...
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213.

Letter and honours for Polybios of Sardis

Sardis VII 2 319-320 Date: ca. 150 AD
Notes:
... further Sardians will reside in Athens in the same role as Polybios (A, ll. 4-5) makes it likely that he was honoured for serving as Sardis’ delegate...
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214.

Ephebic monument, 194/5 AD?

AIUK 4.3B (BM, Ephebic Monuments) no. 5 Date: 194/5 AD ?
Notes:
[1] The major part of this inscription of the 190s AD (fragment a) was acquired on a visit to Athens in 1747-8 by the physician and collector of book...
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215.

Decree of Sarapiastai, 214/3 BC

AIUK 4.3A (BM, Decrees of Other Bodies) no. 5 Date: 214/3 BC
Notes:
... Ptolemy" (Paus. 1.18.4), mostly likely Athens' staunch patron in the years following the "liberation" of the city from Macedonian control in 229 BC, ...
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216.

Dedication of the Acanthus Column at Delphi

IG II3 4 17 Date: Mid-iv BC
Notes:
... SEG 30.85). In most periods, Athens was one of the city-states that sent a delegate (hieromnemon, "sacred remembrancer") to the Amphiktyonic Council,...
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217.

Council decree on cult of Isis at Teithras and dedication of lattices

IG II3 4 1132 Date: A: Late i BC; B: mid-i AD?
Notes:
... but Isis was worshipped in Athens already in the 330s BC (IG II3 1, 337, ll. 43-45) and the cult of Isis, Sarapis, and other Egyptian gods was popula...
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218.

Honours for the soldier Kalliphanes, messenger of the Roman victory at Pydna

IG II3 1 1334 Date: 169/8 BC
Notes:
... 1335; the new year at Athens started notionally or actually at the new moon following the summer solstice). Cf. Habicht, Athens, 215, 219.
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219.

List of manumissions in court and dedicatory bowls

Meyer, Metics, no. 1 Date: ca. 336/5 - 322/1 BC
Notes:
... Olynthian refugees came to Athens after Philip II destroyed Olynthos in 348 BC. See further M. J. Osborne, Naturalization in Athens (1983) vol. 3, X...
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220.

Decree of the orgeones of Bendis (240/39 BC)

IG II2 1283 Date: 240/39 BC
Notes:
... the city hall. [4] Athens itself, as opposed to the Piraeus. Athens had been politically divided from the Piraeus at several periods in the third c...
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221.

Regulations concerning the Eleusinian Mysteries

AIUK 4.2 (BM, Decrees of Council and Assembly) no. 1 Date: Ca. 475-450 BC
Notes:
... Richard Chandler in 1765-6 in Athens in a house close to what was then thought to be the "Theseion", but is now known to be the Hephaisteion. It was ...
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222.

Council decree on the cult of Agdistis at Rhamnous

I Rhamnous 179 Date: 35/4-18/7 BC
Notes:
... the Mother, 1999, 143-262). In Athens, she had a sanctuary in the Agora, next door to the Council-house, known as the Metroon (see n. 5); another san...
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223.

Honours for (a courtier of?) king Ptolemy V

IG II3 1 1277 Date: 188/7 BC
Notes:
... a position to respond to Athens' appeal for help against Philip V in 200 BC (Habicht, Athens, 196). This is the earliest in a series of decrees honou...
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224.

Relief from top of a decree

AIUK 3 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) no. 2 Date: ca. 350-325 BC
Notes:
... War (a conflict in which Athens and Sparta had been allied), and the decree might date to 331 BC, at which time Athens came very close to joining in ...
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225.

Choregic dedication of Aristom- for the Thargelia, 384/3 BC

IG II3 4 475 Date: 384/3 BC
Notes:
... (IG II3 4, 494), and Athens (IG II3 4, 476, 478, 496). That those from Athens are not referred to by their demotic is remarkable (for a possible expl...
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226.

Flavia Philadelphia honours Hadrian

SEG 41.143 Date: ca. 132 AD
Notes:
... epigraphic evidence for Hadrian at Athens, see IG II2 5185 with notes. The dedicator, Flavia Philadelphia, was located in Lydia in the province of...
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227.

Law and decree about the Little Panathenaia

IG II3 1 447 Date: Ca. 335-330 BC
Notes:
... "Some Political Shifts in Lykourgan Athens", in V. Azoulay and P. Ismard eds., Clisthène et Lycurgue d'Athènes (2011), 175-190, at 185-87 = IALD II, ...
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228.

Endowment of Flavius Asklepiades

IG II2 2773 Date: ca. 240-260 AD
Notes:
... Areopagos (on inscribed endowments at Athens, see Puech, Orateurs 1 with notes). The lettering of the prescript (ll. 1-8) and the transcript of the w...
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229.

The Eleusinian Endowment

I Eleusis 489 Date: 168/9-169/70 AD?
Notes:
... notes). As a free city, Athens should not have required permission from a Roman official to do any of this; it might have been necessary if the origi...
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230.

Herm of Aurelius Apphianos

AIUK 11 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) no. 16 Date: 234/5 AD
Notes:
[1] This is one of five inscriptions acquired by James Dawkins on a visit to Athens in 1751 and donated to the University of Oxford on his death in 1...
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231.

Catalogue of ephebes, 255/6 AD

IG II2 2245 Date: AD 255/6
Notes:
... end by the Sack of Athens by the Heruls in 267 AD, after which most of the ephebic inscriptions in the Diogeneion gymnasium, which served as the ephe...
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232.

Honours for envoys from Priene sent to the Panathenaia

Lazar, New readings 181-190 Date: ca. 200 BC?
Notes:
... means. It may refer to Athens’ mythical status as the mother-city of the cities of Ionia (including Priene). Alternatively, it may suggest that the A...
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233.

Council decree on repairs to Rhamnous fortress

I Rhamnous 423 Date: 74/3 - ca. 63 BC
Notes:
[1] This is one of the earliest decrees from after the sack of Athens by the Roman general L. Cornelius Sulla in 86 BC. The period from the sack unti...
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234.

Funerary columella of Kleopatra of Berytos

AIUK 3 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) no. 7 Date: ca. 150-50 BC
Notes:
... Delos between the re-acquisition by Athens, thanks to the Romans, of control over Delos in 166 BC, and Athens’ break with Rome and consequent sack of...
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235.

Grave stele of Chabrias from Selymbria

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 4 Date: early iv BC
Notes:
[1] This monument was among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). Datable to the early 4th century BC, it commemor...
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236.

Divine honours for the Severans

AIO 2734 Date: 197 AD?
Notes:
... the Hellenistic Period, but at Athens we mostly know of them from statue bases of emperors and their priests. Inscribed decrees regarding these honou...
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237.

Funerary monument of Briseis

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 74 Date: ii AD
Notes:
... in childbirth (on Eileithyia in Athens see AIUK 2, no. 6, with notes). Only one other Briseis (a famous Homeric name) is known from Athens (IG II2 67...
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238.

Council decree on repairs to the Asklepieion, 51/0 BC

IG II2 1046 Date: 52/1 BC
Notes:
... the Acropolis and sack of Athens in 86 BC (Habicht, Athens 331-37). The gateway (propylon) that Diokles repairs was a noted feature of the sanctuary,...
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239.

Honours for foreigners who had supported democracy against the Thirty, 401/0 BC

AIO 1191 Date: 401/0 BC
Notes:
... which had taken power in Athens with Spartan support after Athens’ defeat in the Peloponnesian War (Xen. Hell. 2.4.2). Further supporters joined him ...
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240.

Dossier on the association of the musical artists of the Dancer

AIO 2893 Date: ca. 140 AD
Notes:
... the relationship between Hadrian and Athens generally, see IG II2 5185 with notes. Face B includes up to seven documents from the reign of Antoninus ...
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