IGII34 508 Choregic dedication from Ikarion

Choregic dedication from Ikarion

IG II³ 4 508 Date: ca. mid-iv BC

Mnesilochos son of Mnesiphilos was victorious as sponsor (chorēgōn) in tragedy.^[1]

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References:

IG II³ 4 508 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 3099 (PHI)

Agelidis, Weihgeschenke 92

Csapo and Wilson II, 170-1

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Monument type: Triangular base

Inscription type: Dedication (choregic)

Findspot: Ikarion (Lost)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] On the choregic dedications from Ikarion see IG II³ 4, 497. This one, commemorating a victory in tragedy, is inscribed on two fragments of a triangular base, both now lost, that carried cuttings in the top for a tripod, the only firm example of such a dedication commemorating a victory in tragedy in the demes (IG II³ questions whether the full text of the inscription was originally preserved to the right and prints the ends of the lines in square brackets; we follow Csapo-Wilson, and earlier IG editors, in assuming that the first editor, C. D. Buck, Papers of the American School 5, 1886-1890, 86 no. 5, saw the full text). The victor is otherwise unknown (but cf. Humphreys, Kinship, 860-61), and the dating of the inscription is very approximate. Csapo and Wilson, 142, note that it is possible that the choregos here was a non-member resident of Ikarion, as provided for in IG I³ 254, though one would in that case expect him to have been given a demotic (or ethnic). There is, in fact, no firm evidence for a choregos in Ikarion who was not a deme member.

Added: 9 May 2022
Updated: 24 Aug 2022
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