IGII34 464 Choregic dedication for the City Dionysia, 327/6 BC

Choregic dedication for the City Dionysia, 327/6 BC

IG II³ 4 464 Date: 327/6 BC

[Kekropis] was victorious in the boys’ competition . . . of Aixone was sponsor (echorēgei),^[1] . . . of Opous was director (edidasken), . . . of Tegea was pipe-player, Hegemon (327/6) was archon.^[2]

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References:

IG II³ 4 464 (Translated text) (IG Online)

SEG 23.104 (PHI)

SEG 26.215

Agelidis, Weihgeschenke 59

Translation by: Claudio Huayna Avila

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Dedication (choregic)

Findspot: Theatre of Dionysos (Athens Ephoria NK 318)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This rectangular base is a fourth-century choregic dedication commemorating a victory in the dithyrambic competition at the City Dionysia (cf. IG II³ 4, 460 with notes). There is anathyrosis for attaching another block to the left which presumably included the left half of the inscription. On the upper surface, there are traces of a single hole for the attachment of a tripod. The demotic of the sponsor (choregos) indicates that the victorious tribe was Kekropis. [2] It is uncertain whether the director from Opous and the pipe-player from Tegea are Pheidias of Opous and Kallistratos of Tegea whose victory at the Thargelia in 349/8 BC is recorded in IG II³ 4, 493.

Added: 14 Mar 2022
Updated: 14 Jul 2022
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