SEG 58.145 Decree relating to the Aglaurion and the <i>genos</i> Euenoridai

Decree relating to the Aglaurion and the genos Euenoridai

SEG 58.145 Date: ca. 150 BC

. . . clothe (endunai?) and dress (amphiesai?)^[1] . . . in the Aglaurion . . . [the genos?] of the Euenoridai . . . [of the] (5) priest,^[2] sacrifice(s?) not to be taken away (?) (thusias aphoro-) . . . on behalf of the Council [and the People ... and the] crops in the fields . . . [in] Maimakterion on the fourth . . . for Hestia and . . . (10) on the sixth . . . completed or contributed (?) (suntel-) . . . . . . . . .

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SEG 58.145 (Translated text) (AIO)

Translation by: Stephen Lambert, Feyo Schuddeboom

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Decree (Council/People)

Findspot: Athens (Plaka, Odos Epimenidou) (Athens Ephoria Π 211)

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[1] For a discussion of this decree see Lambert, ZPE 167 (2008), 22-26. It seems to relate to the statue of Aglauros, or perhaps rather of Athena, whose vestments, in myth, were left unwashed for a year after the death of Aglauros. As priestess of Athena, Aglauros had been the first to dress the statue. The ritual was perhaps connected to the Plynteria or Kallynteria festivals, and involved a genos, the Euenoridai, attested only here. Plato Kritias 113a-b apparently alludes to this genos in naming the autochthonous eponym of Atlantis (a mythical alternative Athens) Euenor. It was a common feature of genos mythology that they could trace their ancestry to autochthonous founding heroes of Athens. [2] Of Aglauros? There was certainly a priestess of Aglauros in the Aglaurion (e.g. IG II³ 1, 1002), but there may also have been a male priest.

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Updated: 19 Feb 2020
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