IGII34 660 Dedication and list of religious servants (therapeutai)

Dedication and list of religious servants (therapeutai)

IG II³ 4 660 Date: 1st cent. BC

. . . the servants (therapeutai) . . . during the priesthood [for life] of Perikles – (5) of Paiania^[1] . . .

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References:

IG II³ 4 660 (Translated text) (IG Online)

SEG 21.776 (PHI)

SEG 39.229 (PHI)

Agora XVIII 117

Translation by: Chris de Lisle, Salvatore Tufano

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)

Monument type: Column

Inscription type: Dedication (therapeutai?), List of names (therapeutai)

Findspot: Southwest of the City Eleusinion (Ag. I 5717)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This inscription is carved on a fragment of a column drum, which was erected by a group of ‘servants’ (therapeutai) associated with a sanctuary, as a dedication and/or honorific monument. A catalogue naming the servants probably followed after l. 5. Such servants are not otherwise encountered in Attica. Elsewhere, they are particularly associated with the cult of the Egyptian gods (e.g. I Délos 2229, 2077-2081) and the cult of Asklepios (e.g. Inscriften von Pergamon III 71, 79, 122). In the former case, it might derive from one of the Athenian sanctuaries of the Egyptian gods (on which see IG II³ 4, 1113 with note; M.-F. Baslez, Recherches sur les conditions de pénétration et de diffusion des religions orientales à Délos 1977, 192-96). In the latter case, the inscription might derive from the hypothesised sanctuary of Asklepios and Hygieia within the City Eleusinion (on which see SEG 44.79 with notes). Perikles, the priest of the sanctuary, is not otherwise known. The fact that his tenure is ‘for life’ suggests a date after reforms to Athenian priesthoods around 20 BC (see IG II³ 4, 797 B with note).

Added: 1 Jul 2019
Updated: 28 Jul 2025
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