IEleus 649 Statue base for a hierophant

Statue base for a hierophant

I Eleusis 649 Date: Ca. 240 AD

. . . . . . received splendid gifts . . . -minded word . . . Competition-director (agōnothetēn) and eponymous archonship . . . mystic leader (mustikon hēgemona)^[1] (5) . . . before revealing the Mysteries to men, his fatherland honoured him by decree, having adulated (agassamenē) him. His onetime bride [Myrt]ale^[2] set up a bronze statue, a solemn dedication (agalma) for her godly (eisotheōi) husband. She was the daughter of Glaukos,^[3] who was the best (10) of knights, procurator (epitropeōn) of Cyprus in the sea (buthiēn), and sister of godlike (theoeideos) Glaukos,^[4] who himself also served as hierophant and departed to the immortals.^[5]

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I Eleusis 649 (Translated text) (PHI)

IG II² 3662 (PHI)

Translation by: Feyo Schuddeboom

Images: Cornell - (1)

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Statue base

Findspot: Eleusis (Eleusis Museum E 999)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] List of offices held by the honorand before he became hierophant. "Mystic leader" = Iakchagogos or hearth-initiate? The dedicator of this statue was probably Myrtale, wife of the (unknown) hierophant honoured here, sister of the deceased hierophant, Glaukos, and daughter of Glaukos, procurator of Cyprus. The epigram was perhaps composed by her nephew, Glaukos son of Zoilos, a poet. [2] = Byrne, Roman Citizens, Flavia 18. For a stemma of her family, see Byrne, Roman Citizens, Stemma IX. [3] = Byrne, Roman Citizens, Flavius 14. [4] = Byrne, Roman Citizens, Flavius 17; cf. I Eleusis 646. [5] Cf. I Eleusis 502, 27.

Added: 12 Sep 2015
Updated: 8 Jul 2021
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