IGII2 7701 Funerary Monument of Flavius Paramonos and Aelia Abidiane Eisias

Funerary Monument of Flavius Paramonos and Aelia Abidiane Eisias

IG II² 7701 Date: 117 - ca. 200 AD

col. 1

Fl(avius) Paramonos son of Herakleides of Phlya.

col. 2

Aelia Abidiane Eisias of Sounion.^[1]

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IG II² 7701 (Translated text) (PHI)

Translation by: Tanner J. Brown

Images: Wikimedia Commons - (1)

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Panagia Gorgoepikoos Church ("Little Metropolis") (In situ)

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[1] This long architrave block must once have been part of a large funerary monument of a married couple who held both Roman and Athenian citizenship. Flavius Paramonos was a member of a notable family of the deme Phlya and the Boiotian city of Thespiai (see Byrne, Roman Citizens of Athens, 2003, pp. 266-7; C. Jones, HSCPh 74, 1970, 223-55). The nomen Aelia indicates that the inscription must post-date the accession of Hadrian in 117 AD, while her rare cognomen Abidiane may be a Hellenised form of the Latin Avidiana (see H. Solin, Arctos 48, 2014, 347; 55, 2021, 250-51).

The inscription is immured in the so-called Little Metropolis Church (for other inscriptions in this spolia-rich church, see IG II² 6419).

Added: 24 Sep 2026
Updated: 24 Sep 2026
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