IGII34 242 Dedication by Acharnai to Ares and Augustus in the Athenian Agora

Dedication by Acharnai to Ares and Augustus in the Athenian Agora

IG II³ 4 242 Date: 19/8 or 18/7 BC (?)

[For good fortune. When the priest] of Ares was Apollophanes, [son of -, the temple attendants (zakoreuontōn)? were] Theoxenos son of Demetrios [and - son] of Apollonios, the eponymous [archon of the city was Areios (19/8) or Demeas (18/7)], the community (koinon) of Acharnai (dedicated this) for (5) [their benefactions to it?] as a thank-offering to Ares and Augustus [Caesar?] Uninscribed space -os son of Diognetos of Acharnai made it.^[1]

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IG II³ 4 242 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 2953 (PHI)

Schmalz 90

Translation by: Julian Schneider

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Dedication (deme Acharnai), Dedication (Ares), Dedication (Augustus)

Findspot: Private house near Areopagos (EM 8410)

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[1] This is a dedication by the “community” (koinon) of Acharnai (i.e. most likely a group loosely based on the old deme of Acharnai, cf. Whitehead, Demes 362-63, for the use of the term to signify a deme much earlier, however, see SEG 63.156) apparently made at the sanctuary of Ares in the Athenian Agora (Paus. 1.8.4). For the cult of Ares in Acharnai see RO 88. It used to be thought that the Classical temple there was removed to the Athenian Agora in the Augustan period, but it has now been established that the Agora temple was originally located at Pallene, where it had served the cult of Athena Pallenis (M. Korres, Horos 10–12, 1992–1998, 83–104). The sculptor (l. 6) is otherwise unknown. [D. Kellogg, Marathon Fighters, 2013, 166, ascribes this dedication to the sanctuary of Ares at Acharnai, it seems incorrectly. SDL]. On the inscriptions of Acharnai see SEG 21.519, with notes.

Added: 28 Jun 2018
Updated: 20 Dec 2022
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