IGII31 1417 Honours (?)

Honours (?)

IG II³ 1 1417 Date: Ca. 200-150 BC

. . . . . . towards the . . . . . . by the Spartans (Lakedaimoniōn) . . . . . . of the Greeks . . . . . . concerning the priority in the procession? (propompeias) of the Athenians . . . (5) . . . and moereover this . . . . . . to the Eleutheria^[1] . . . . . . of the Athenians that have occurred . . . . . . [and stand them in front of the?] stoa [of Zeus?]; and . . . shall give . . . . . . preparation (kataskeuas) of the stelai . . . (10) . . . setting up of the . . . . . .

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IG II³ 1 1417 (Translated text) (PHI) (IG Online)

SEG 36.174

Agora XVI 304

Translation by: Feyo Schuddeboom

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)
Ohio - (1)

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Decree (Council/People)

Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 6529)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] A festival in honour of Zeus Eleutherios, held at Plataia, commemorating the battle against the Persians and celebrating the freedom of the Greeks. Said to have been founded by Aristeides (Plut., Arist. 21). Cf. N. Robertson, Hesperia 55 (1986) 101 n. 45; and now also the new inscriptions relating to the Eleutheria published by M. B. Walbank, ZPE 193 (2015), 118-32. On the stoa of Zeus Eleutherios at Athens cf. Agora III 38.

Added: 9 Mar 2017
Updated: 9 Mar 2017
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