IGII34 501 Choregic dedication from Ikarion

Choregic dedication from Ikarion

IG II³ 4 501 Date: Before mid-iv BC?

Ergasos son of Phanomachos Phanomachos son of Ergasos Diognetos son of Ergasos, having been sponsors (chorēgēsantes) for tragedies, (5)being victorious, dedicated (this).^[1]

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References:

IG II³ 4 501 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 3095 (PHI)

SEG 32.249a

Löhr, Familienweihungen 82

Agelidis, Weihgeschenke 96

Csapo and Wilson II, 169-70

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Monument type: Pillar

Inscription type: Dedication (choregic)

Findspot: Ikarion (In situ)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] On the choregic dedications from Ikarion see IG II³ 4, 497. This one, dedicated by a father and two sons, is inscribed on a quadrangular pillar, which will originally have been fixed into a base and mounted by a crowning member (statue, or perhaps rather a tripod?), the whole at least ca. 2 m high. IG I³ 254 provides for two choregoi in Ikarion, but IG II³ 4, 506 also names three. Sharing of a single choregia by multiple family members seems a likely explanation. Lettering and orthography suggest a date before mid-iv BC. Ergasos of Ikarion, who supplied reeds to Eleusis in 329/8 (IG II² 1672 = I Eleus. 177, ll. 189, 194), was perhaps grandson of the Ergasos named in l. 1 (if he is not the same man).

Added: 9 May 2022
Updated: 24 Aug 2022
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