IGII34 613 Dedication commemorating victories in Panhellenic festivals

Dedication commemorating victories in Panhellenic festivals

IG II³ 4 613 Date: ca. 170 AD

In agonistic crowns^[1] Crown 1 The Eleutheria in Plataia^[2]

Crown 2 The Herakleia in Thebes^[3]

Crown 3 (5) The Panhellenia in Athens^[4]

Crown 4 The Nemeia in Argos

Crown 5 The Eleutheria (10) in Plataia^[2]

Crown 6 The Olympeia in Athens^[5]

Crown 7 The Hadrianeia- Olympia (15) in Smyrna^[6]

Crown 8 The Olympia in Ephesos^[7]

Crown 9 The Olympia in Smyrna^[6]

Crown 10 (20) The Barbilleia in Ephesos^[8]

Crown 11 On shield and at the Shield(-Games) of Argos^[9]

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References:

IG II³ 4 613 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 3162 (PHI)

SEG 33.296c

Translation by: David Weidgenannt

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Dedication (athlete)

Findspot: Kerameikos (Kerameikos Museum I 171)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] From ca. 170 AD “agonistic crowns” begin appearing on victory dedications, represented here as simple protrusions in relief. Cf. K. D. M. Dunbabin, in B. Le Guen ed., L’argent dans les concours du monde grec (2010), 301-45 (this example, 314), who notes that though they appear in the visual evidence from the late 2nd cent. AD, they are attested earlier in literary evidence, and that there are regional differences in their use and display. They were more permanent and valuable than the traditional type of crown, which they sometimes replaced. In the top of the base are cuttings for affixing a base. The victories commemorated are apparently athletic, cf. n. 7. [2] For the Eleutheria in Plataia cf. IG II³ 4, 599. [3] For the Herakleia in Thebes cf. IG II³ 4, 599. [4] The Panhellenia were founded by Hadrian and the Panhellenic Council in 131/2 AD or shortly thereafter, cf. Follet, Athènes, 343-45; M. Wörrle, Chiron 22, 1992, 339-44. See also IG II³ 4, 578 with notes. [5] For the Athenian Olymp(i)eia cf. IG II³ 4, 612. [6] For the festivals in Smyrna see Moretti, IAG, p. 225; L. Robert, HSCP 81, 1977, 29 n. 141 [= OMS VI 239]. The festivals in crowns 7-10 appear in the same order in Hadrian’s edict on Games, SEG 56.1359, ll. 71-73, except for the Olympia in Smyrna, which had not yet been founded (cf. Petzl on IK Smyrna I 24, 1, 659). [7] The Olympia in Ephesos were an athletic festival founded in the time of Domitian, and are distinct from the musical and athletic Olympia-Hadrianeia-Ephesia referred to at IG II³ 4, 629, l. 25; cf. M. Lehner, Die Agonistik im Ephesos der römischen Kaiserzeit (2004), 182-97. [7] The Barbilleia were founded in honour of Tiberius Claudius Balbillus, see M. Lehner, Die Agonistik im Ephesos der römischen Kaiserzeit (2004), 169-81. [8] For this Argive festival and its names see IG II³ 4, 594.

Added: 21 Oct 2019
Updated: 3 Nov 2023
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