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241.

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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242.

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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243.

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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244.

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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245.

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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246.

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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247.

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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248.

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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249.

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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250.

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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251.

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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252.

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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253.

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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254.

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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255.

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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256.

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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257.

Catalogue of ephebes, 87/8 AD ?

IG II2 1996 Date: AD 87/8?
Notes:
... served as eponymous archon of Athens in absentia – one of only three reigning emperors to do so (along with Commodus and Gallienus). This archonship ...
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258.

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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259.

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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260.

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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261.

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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262.

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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263.

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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264.

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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265.

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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266.

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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267.

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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268.

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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269.

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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270.

List of a board of archons

AIO 2660 Date: 9 BC – ca. 75 AD, probably 40s AD
Notes:
... the most prestigious office in Athens and was sometimes held by Roman emperors (usually in absentia) and other powerful foreigners (e.g. AIUK 11 (Ash...
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