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241.

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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242.

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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243.

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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244.

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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245.

Athenian dedication on the Marathon Base at Delphi

Choix de Delphes 15 Date: ca. 480-460 BC (A) / after 280s BC, possibly ca. 200 BC (B)
Notes:
... eds., Innovations and Inventions in Athens, 2020, 30-31). A terminus post quem for this extension is provided by F.Delphes III 2, 71, a Delphic proxe...
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246.

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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247.

Restoration to Thasians of proxeny destroyed by Thirty

IG II2 6 + Add. p. 655 Date: Shortly after 403 BC
Notes:
[1] When the Athenians who were planning an oligarchic coup in Athens in 411 decided to replace democracies among their allies by oligarchies, they s...
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248.

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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249.

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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250.

Dedication of the Athenian Stoa at Delphi

IG I3 1464 Date: End of the sixth or first half of the fifth cent. BC
Notes:
... eds., Innovations and Inventions in Athens, 2020, 219-20). In the former case, the project might have been conceived and implemented in the early yea...
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251.

Altar for Hadrian

SEG 21.711 Date: 132 AD
Notes:
[1] This is one of over a hundred surviving altars from Athens dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD), as saviour, founder, and Olympios. T...
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252.

Honours for the priestess of Aglauros

IG II3 1 1002 Date: 250/49 BC
Notes:
... implications for the topography of Athens (G. S. Dontas, Hesperia 52, 1983, 48-63 = SEG 33.115). In myth, Aglauros (sometimes Agraulos) was one of th...
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253.

Decree on the repair of a statue of Athena Nike

IG II3 1 444 Date: Ca. 336-330 BC
Notes:
... with the Past in Lykourgan Athens", in L. Foxhall et al. eds., Intentional History (2010), 225-38 = IALD II, 115-31; "Some Political Shifts in Lykour...
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254.

Base for Septimius Severus

AIO 2736 Date: 193-211 AD
Notes:
... Augusta the ]|[ saviour of Athens] and of Athena [Polias (dedicated this statue), having sacrificed and obtained] | [good omens about a greater work ...
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255.

Memorial of war-dead (tribe Erechtheis), 460-459 BC

IG I3 1147 Date: 460-459 BC
Notes:
[1] It was "ancestral custom" for Athenians to bury their war dead at Athens, though there were exceptions (e.g. Marathon, Thuc. 2.34, Plataia, Hdt. ...
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256.

Alliance with Boeotians, 395 BC

Agora XVI 34 Date: 395 BC
Notes:
... context for an alliance between Athens and a federal Boeotia before the King's Peace is the beginning of the Corinthian War in 395. The war developed...
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257.

Honours for Prienian ambassadors

IG II2 567 Date: Late 4th century BC
Notes:
... was likely triggered by both Athens and Priene entering into the same Antigonid sphere of influence (see C. Habicht, Athens from Alexander to Antony,...
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258.

Honours for the prytany of Ptolemais, 192/1 BC

AIUK 4.2 (BM, Decrees of Council and Assembly) no. 15 Date: 192/1 BC
Notes:
[1] Fragment c of this inscription (containing lines 25-39 and the left side of ll. 40-44) was acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin and was among the obj...
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259.

Funerary stele for Epiktesis, daughter of Onasos of Kytherros

AIUK 11 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) no. 14bis Date: ca. 150-200 AD
Notes:
... is a well-attested name at Athens, and becomes more common in the imperial period. If, as is likely here, "of Kytherros" is a demotic rather than the...
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260.

Decree on the administration of the property of Kodros, Neleus and Basile

IG I3 84 Date: 418/7 BC
Notes:
... gave his life to save Athens from the Dorians, and Neleus was his father (alternatively king of Pylos, cf. Hdt. 5.65). [4] The precise meaning of ...
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261.

Honours for the girls who worked on the robe for Athena (108/7 BC)

AIUK 1 (Petworth House) no. 1 Date: 108/7 BC (decree 2), 108/7 BC or earlier (decree 1)
Notes:
... Athena on the acropolis of Athens at the city's principal religious festival, the Panathenaia. The central scene of the Parthenon frieze in the Briti...
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262.

Honours for Philoxenos

AIO 2637 Date: ca. 53-67 AD
Notes:
... this period come from outside Athens (i.e., the decision to inscribe was not made by the Athenians). Throughout the first two centuries AD, statue ba...
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263.

List of demesmen

Lambert and Pitt, Grammateion 2024 no. 1 Date: 340/39 or 313/2 BC
Notes:
[1] Textual Note. All editions of this list of names have been based on a transcript made by the Abbé Michel Fourmont on his visit to Athens in 1729....
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264.

Posthumous honours for Zeno of Kition

IG II3 1 980 Date: 262/1 BC
Notes:
... of philosophy, had lived in Athens for about fifty years. [4] Neither of these inscribed versions of this decree survive. [5] In the period of At...
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265.

Honorific decree for a seer (?)

AIUK 4.2 (BM, Decrees of Council and Assembly) no. 9 Date: Ca. 375 BC
Notes:
... political exiles seeking refuge at Athens (IG II3 1, 302, IG II3 1, 333, II) and foreigners already resident at Athens (IG II3 1, 337, IG II3 1, 418...
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266.

Sarcophagus for Aelius Epikrates of Berenikidai

AIUK 8 (Broomhall) no. 5 Date: ca. 125-150 AD (chest); ca. 200-250 AD (lid, with inscription)
Notes:
... number of them deriving from Athens (Attic sarcophagi were also exported in large numbers), but inscriptions on sarcophagi discovered in Athens are v...
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267.

Ephebic monument

AIUK 4.3B (BM, Ephebic Monuments) no. 3 Date: ca. 110-120 AD
Notes:
[1] This fragment (or rather two joining fragments) of the early-2nd century AD was among the inscriptions acquired in Athens after 1801 by Lord Elgi...
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268.

Honours for Arybbas king of the Molossians

IG II3 1 411 Date: 342? BC
Notes:
[1] At nearly 3 metres preserved height, this is the largest honorific inscription to survive from ancient Athens. On the significance of this cf. IG...
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269.

Honours for Prienian Ambassadors

IG II2 565 Date: Late fourth century BC
Notes:
... was likely triggered by both Athens and Priene entering into the same Antigonid sphere of influence (see C. Habicht, Athens from Alexander to Antony,...
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270.

Restoration of the Piraeus walls

Maier, Mauerbauinschriften, no. 1 Date: 395/4 BC
Notes:
... of the requirements imposed on Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War was the destruction of the long walls and the Piraeus walls. Athens in effe...
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