IEleus 495 Apollonia honours Marcus Aurelius

Apollonia honours Marcus Aurelius

I Eleusis 495 Date: 172-175 AD

(This statue of) Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Germanicus Parthicus Medicus (was erected by) the Apollonians (5)below Cyrene, through Marcus Julius Praxis, Panhellene.^[1]

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I Eleusis 495 (Translated text) (PHI)

IG II² 3407 (PHI)

Oliver, Marcus Aurelius 8

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Images: Cornell - (1)
Wikimedia Commons - (1)

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Statue base (Other city)

Findspot: Eleusis, Telesterion (Eleusis Museum E 1000)

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[1] The titulature of Marcus Aurelius in this inscription indicates that this statue of Marcus Aurelius was erected between 172 and 175 AD (D. Kienast and W. Eck, Römische Kaisertabelle⁶, 2017, 133). He was probably honoured for aiding in the restoration of Eleusis following its sack by the Costobocs in 170 AD (I Eleusis 494, 515-516). Apollonia (modern Susah, Libya) was originally the harbour of Cyrene, but became an independent city in the second or first century BC and was one of the five chief cities of Cyrenaica in the Imperial period (see P. Kenrick, Cyrenaica, 2013, 255-87). Marcus Julius Praxis, who organised the erection of the statue and probably paid for it, was Apollonia's delegate to the Panhellenion (on which see see IG II³ 4, 215 with notes). This inscription is the only evidence for Apollonia’s membership of the Panhellenion. It is one of only two examples of a delegate to the Panhellenion acting on behalf of their home city in Athens, along with Sardes et Synnada, no. 1, ll. 12-14, although many other inscriptions praise delegates for representing their city well in general terms (e.g. OGIS 504-507 C, ll. 5-6; Agora XVIII 402). Apollonia also erected a statue of Hadrian in the Olympieion (IG II² 3306) shortly before the Panhellenion's foundation. The top of the base is now broken, but two holes for the feet of a statue were seen in the upper surface by J. Spon and G. Wheler in 1675.

Added: 21 Jan 2024
Updated: 20 May 2024
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