IGII34 510 Choregic dedication from Acharnai

Choregic dedication from Acharnai

IG II³ 4 510 Date: ca. mid-4th cent. BC

. . . [sponsor's name?] having been victorious dedicated (this), . . . with a chorus and in comedy (?). Chares of Thebes was pipe-player, Speuseades of Athens [was director (edidaske)].^[1]

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References:

IG II³ 4 510 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 3106 (PHI)

Agelidis, Weihgeschenke 114

Csapo and Wilson II, 43-5

Translation by: Stephen Lambert, Claudio Huayna Avila

Monument type: Unknown

Inscription type: Dedication (choregic)

Findspot: Menidi (= ancient Acharnai) (Lost)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This choregic dedication was found in the church of Panagia Anagaliotissa in Menidi (ancient Acharnai) and is known only from a transcript made in the 18th century by the Abbé Fourmont. The text at the start of ll. 1 and 2 is uncertain, but, if l. 2 was correctly recorded by Fourmont, the dedication appears (unusually) to commemorate two separate victories, one in dithyramb (or other type of choral competition) and another in comedy, by a single choregos. Alternatively, it may have commemorated a single victory "with a comic chorus" (cf. IG II³ 4, 515). The findspot suggests that the context was the Acharnian "Rural" Dionysia (on which see IG II³ 4, 500, with notes). Chares of Thebes is not certainly attested elsewhere, but Csapo-Wilson speculate that he was the piper Char- (no ethnic recorded) at the Thargelia in 372/1 BC, IG II³ 4, 478. It has also been suggested that Speuseades may be identifiable with the comic actor (hypokrites) Speusiades (sic), who performed in Thorikos ca. 350-325 BC (IG II³ 4, 512). On the use of the designation "Athenian" in Attic choregic dedications cf. the case of Lysiades in IG II³ 4, 445, 460.

For other choregic dedications from Acharnai see IG II³ 4, 500, 515. See also IG II³ 4, 234.

Added: 9 May 2022
Updated: 9 May 2022
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