315 Results for "Eleusis"

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271.

Letters from Plotina and Hadrian on the Epicurean Succession (121 AD)

SEG 55.250 Date: 121 AD
Notes:
... inscribed Imperial letters, see I Eleusis 513. Epicureanism was a philosophical movement established by Epicurus at the end of the fourth century BC; in Roman times it was regularly...
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272.

Decree of deme Piraeus concerning the Thesmophorion

IG II2 1177 Date: Mid-iv BC
Notes:
... (see also NGSL 3, I Eleusis 175 and AIO 2841). The festival seems to have been largely, perhaps entirely, a diffused rite, celebrated locally in the demes (on this see A...
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273.

Statue base of Piso

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 24 Date: 173/4 AD
Notes:
... IG II2 3404 = I Eleusis 482 of 163/4 AD). Piso had also served as archon eponymous, the most high-ranking magistracy in the city, and an office typically held at thi...
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274.

Decree of Rhamnous honouring Kallippos of Melite

AIO 3076 Date: ca. 300 BC (?)
Notes:
... the fortresses of Rhamnous and Eleusis (297-5 BC, Knoepfler 206). There is no other evidence for the honorand. [2] The sanctuary of Nemesis was a common location for the erecti...
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275.

Apollonia honours Hadrian

IG II2 3306 Date: ca. 132 AD
Notes:
... ktistes (founder or builder). I Eleusis 495 shows that the city subsequently became a member of the Panhellenion (on which, see IG II3 4, 215 with notes).
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276.

Decree of a thiasos of Bendis on Salamis (272/1 BC)

SEG 59.151 Date: 272/1 BC
Notes:
... 10. [4] Stratokles (of Eleusis) is also secretary at SEG 59.152 and IG II2 1317b.
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277.

Funerary monument of Pythion of Megara

IG I3 1353 Date: 446-ca. 425 BC
Notes:
... after advancing no further than Eleusis and Thria (Thuc. 1.114.1-2). Andokides, grandfather of the orator of the same name, was involved, not long after these events, in making the 3...
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278.

Dedication of measuring vessel by city guardians (astynomoi)

IG II3 4 124 Date: early i AD
Notes:
... II3 1, 1300), the Piraeus, Eleusis and on the acropolis (cf. SEG 66.125; Agora XVI 322, ll. 8-9). For a measure discovered near the library of Hadrian see Arch. Delt. 54, 1999, ...
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279.

Dedication by the prytany of Hippothontis

IG II3 4 46 Date: early iv cent. BC
Notes:
... usually thought, it was in Eleusis (cf. IG II3 4, 220 with notes), it seems the tribe must have used some other location in Athens for this dedication.
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280.

Choregic dedication from Ikarion

IG II3 4 501 Date: Before mid-iv BC?
Notes:
... Ikarion, who supplied reeds to Eleusis in 329/8 (IG II2 1672 = I Eleus. 177, ll. 189, 194), was perhaps grandson of the Ergasos named in l. 1 (if he is not the same man).
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281.

Dossier on the association of the musical artists of the Dancer

AIO 2893 Date: ca. 140 AD
Notes:
... city of Athens and at Eleusis (cf. IG II3 4, 566, AIUK 11 (Ashmolean), 10, cf. R. R. R. Smith, Antinous: Boy made God 2018). The inscriber, Attalos Andragathos, was origi...
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282.

Decree of a thiasos of Bendis on Salamis (249/8 BC)

IG II2 1317b Date: 249/8 BC
Notes:
... Stratokles, apparently a citizen from Eleusis, had also been honoured as secretary in SEG 59.151 and SEG 59.152; the office was apparently not annual, or could be repeated.
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283.

Dedication to Demeter by Herodes Atticus

IG II3 4 1051 Date: ca. 175 AD?
Notes:
... a sanctuary of Asklepios at Eleusis (see IG II3 4, 891 with note), but this statue was dedicated to Demeter (= Deo) in the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore.
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284.

Decree of tribe Hippothontis honouring Phanodemos of Thymaitadai

Bardani and Matthaiou, Tιμαί Φανοδήμου, 1 Date: Ca. 340-325 BC
Notes:
... decrees of Hippothontis cf. I Eleusis 63 with notes. [2] Alternatively "five hundred" may be a number of medimnoi of grain donated by Phanodemos to his tribe. While references to...
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285.

IG II3 1 1138 Date: 227/6 BC
Notes:
... Since this was found at Eleusis it might, like IG II3 1, 1164, be from a decree honouring the managers of the Mysteries.
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286.

Council decree on divine honours for Augustus

Agora XVI 336 Date: ca. 24/3-20/19 BC?
Notes:
... year (SEG 28.161, 47.143b, I Eleusis 300, Agora XV 281 and 291). The expansion or institution of cult for Augustus could be one of the year's initiatives (see G. Schmalz, GRBS 37,...
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287.

Dedication by the prytany of Hippothontis

IG II3 4 220 Date: iii cent. AD
Notes:
... Hippothontis was probably situated in Eleusis: see U. Kron, Die zehn attischen Phylenheroen (1976), 180-85. Instead it was inscribed on a rock face on the island of Salamis (the identity o...
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288.

Decree honouring a military figure

IG II2 379 Date: After ca. 304 BC
Notes:
... of mercenaries (cf. e.g. I Eleusis 196, l. 94). Archippos was the name of both the archon of 321/0 and that of 318/7 BC. Tracy, ADT 168 (SEG 45.84), identifies the inscriber as ...
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289.

Law about the harvest and export of olive oil ("Hadrian's law")

AIO 2883 Date: 124/5 AD or later
Notes:
... law and life (see I Eleusis 513 with notes). On Hadrian and Athens, see IG II2 5185 with notes. For earlier Athenian laws see AIO 819 with notes. This law requires cul...
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290.

Statue base for the hierophant Glaukos

I Eleusis 646 Date: Ca. 235 AD
Notes:
... For this expression, cf. I Eleusis 502, 27, and 649, 12. [4] A revelation from the blessed dead, whose initiation in the Eleusinian Mysteries ensured them of a good afterlife...
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291.

Dedication by the People to the Two Goddesses

IG II3 4 5 Date: ca. 330-310 BC
Notes:
... for lustral water (photo: I Eleusis Pl. 41). It belongs in a pair with IG II3 4, 6. The two statues will perhaps have stood either side of the processional way leading to the Tel...
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292.

Letter from Hadrian to the Athenians

IG II2 1101 Date: 129 AD
Notes:
... inscribed Imperial letters, see I Eleusis 513.
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293.

Endowment of Akousilaos

Puech, Orateurs 1 Date: ca. 112-114 AD
Notes:
... for the gymnasia; (3) I Eleusis 489, after 168/9 AD, regarding an annual distribution at the Eleusinian Mysteries; (4) SEG 21.510, ca. 175-200 AD, regarding an annual distrib...
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294.

List of a board of archons

AIO 2660 Date: 9 BC – ca. 75 AD, probably 40s AD
Notes:
... from autopsy by Clinton, I Eleusis II, p. 328), rather than C. P. Jones, Phoenix 32 (1978) 222-228 (= SEG 28.192) and G. Bowersock ANSP 2002, 11-16 (= SEG 56.210bis), who read -...
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295.

Gaius Claudius Silianus honours Hadrian

IG II2 3315 Date: ca. 132 AD
Notes:
... a hearth initiate in I Eleusis 373. He appears to be related to Gaius Silius Polykritos of Azenia, who was prominent in the reign of Caligula (IG II2 3266), from a family th...
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296.

Dedication by a victor in Panhellenic festivals

IG II3 4 607 Date: 1st cent. AD
Notes:
... The Rarian plain is at Eleusis, and alludes here to a victory at the Eleusinia, on which see IG II3 4, 579; IG I3 5, with notes.
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297.

Honours for the ephebic superintendent, 140/1 AD

IG II2 2048 Date: AD 140/1
Notes:
... Plouton and Kore (see I Eleusis 239 and K. Clinton, Sacred Officials, 1974, 97). It was normal for the son of the superintendent to take responsibility for the herm’s erectio...
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298.

Decrees of Athenian Assembly and Kollytos, 327/6 BC

Matthaiou, Nέο θραῦσμα, 91-93 Date: 327/6 BC
Notes:
... not wholly unparalleled, cf. I Eleusis 229; RO 89; perhaps Kourouniotes 1927 no. 3; and on the tendency for intramural demes to be more integrated with polis structures than their r...
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299.

Athenian soldiers serving at Rhamnous honour their general

I Rhamnous 10 Date: 252/1 BC
Notes:
... I Rhamnous 3 and I Eleusis 182. [3] It is clear that this is a decree of all the Athenians stationed at Rhamnous as soldiers, which are revealed as a corporate group...
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300.

Lampadedromia dedication

IG II3 4 317 Date: late ii BC – early i BC
Notes:
... the tribe of Ptolemais (I Eleusis 207; J. D. Mikalson, Religion in Hellenistic Athens, 1998, 178‒9). The “foreign residents” (paroikoi) are probably mercenaries; in IG II3 4, 3...
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