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: Wikimedia Commons - (1)

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Statue base, Metrical (elegaic couplets)

Findspot: Eleusis (Eleusis Museum E 999)

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[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 - in elegaic couplets - 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: 23 Mar 2025
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