IGII34 700 Dedication of statue of Phanostrate

Dedication of statue of Phanostrate

IG II³ 4 700 Date: mid-iv BC

Phanostrate [ . . . ?]^[1]

Delophanes of Cholargos dedicated [this likeness (eikona)] his own daughter D- [having vowed it] for on [her?] mother Lysimache . . . (5) [you laid your?] hand, great saviour . . .

In the priesthood of Pat[aikos]^[2]

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References:

IG II³ 4 700 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 4368 (PHI)

SEG 30.164

CEG 2, no. 772

Löhr, Familienweihungen 135

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Asklepios)

Original location: [Asklepieion]

Findspot: South slope of Acropolis (EM 9007)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This translation and notes are based on the revised edition of J. Curbera in IG II³. This verse dedication was made to the healing deity Asklepios in his sanctuary on the south slope of the Acropolis. The relationships of the people named are not quite certain, but it is likely that Phanostrate (l. 1, the name was previously incorrectly read as Phanostratos) was the midwife-doctor of that name later commemorated on the funerary monument, IG II² 6873, and that this dedication of a statue of her commemorates her successful treatment of Lysimache for a gynaecological problem. Appropriately enough in these circumstances the dedication results from a vow made (probably) by her daughter, D- (l. 3), and is set up by (probably) her husband and D-’s father, Delophanes, an Athenian citizen of the deme Cholargos. In l. 5 the ultimate credit is imputed to Asklepios’ “healing hand”. The family of the dedicant is not otherwise known. [2] Pataikos was priest of Asklepios before 343/2, IG II² 1532, 13, cf. S. B. Aleshire, The Athenian Asklepieion (1989), 126, 170.

Added: 15 Sep 2017
Updated: 6 Apr 2022
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