IGII34 5 Dedication by the People to the Two Goddesses

Dedication by the People to the Two Goddesses

IG II³ 4 5 Date: ca. 330-310 BC

The Athenian People to the two goddesses.^[1]

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References:

IG II³ 4 5 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 2795 (PHI)

SEG 36.238a

I Eleusis 90 (PHI)

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Monument type: Base with marble statue of maiden

Inscription type: Dedication (People)

Original location: Eleusis (beside processional way leading to Telesterion?)

Findspot: Eleusis (Eleusis Museum E 963)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] The base, with its dedication to Demeter and Kore, carries a statue of a maiden (korē) with a cutting in its abdomen for a basin for lustral water (photo: I Eleusis Pl. 41). It belongs in a pair with IG II³ 4, 6. The two statues will perhaps have stood either side of the processional way leading to the Telesterion, this one to right (Clinton). They might have been erected on the completion of the porch of the Telesterion under Demetrios of Phaleron (M. D. Fullerton, Hesp. 55, 1986, 207-17 = SEG 36.238) or a little earlier, when the main entrance gateway was rebuilt (Clinton).

Added: 15 Sep 2017
Updated: 3 Nov 2023
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