AgoraXVIII 259 Honours for Vespasian or another Flavian emperor

Honours for Vespasian or another Flavian emperor

Agora XVIII 259 Date: 69-79 AD

Emperor [Titus] Fl[a]vius [Vespasian ?] [Augustus]^[1]

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Agora XVIII 259 (Translated text) (AIO)

Leone, Polis, Platz und Porträt 51

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Statue base

Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 4197)

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[1] This very fragmentary inscription honours one of the Flavian emperors: Vespasian (r. 69-79 AD), Titus (r. 79-81 AD), or Domitian (r. 81-96 AD), probably Vespasian. Other monuments for the Flavian dynasty at Athens include an altar for Vespasian (Agora XVIII 284), an altar for Vespasian and Titus (AIO 3839), a statue base repurposed for the future emperor Domitian during his father's reign (IG II² 3283), and a statue of Titus on Delos (I Délos 1595). As emperor, Domitian also served as eponymous archon in absentia in 87/8 AD (IG II² 1996; F.Delphes III.2 65; Philostratos, Life of Apollonios 8.16) and is identified with Zeus Eleutherios in IG II² 1996. NAMA 345 is the head from a statue of Domitian (images on Commons). On Athens and the Flavian emperors, see M. Kantiréa, Les dieux et les dieux augustes, 2007, 84-87; N. Cecconi, Historia 72, 2023, 191-213.

Added: 24 Jul 2026
Updated: 24 Jul 2026
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