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481.

Grave stele of Eupolemos and family

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 2 Date: ca. early iv BC
Notes:
... among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). It belongs to a genre of Attic funerary monuments which listed members of a family across more than one ge...
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482.

Grave stele of Demetria

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 27 Date: 360-340 BC
Notes:
... Gordon (1784-1860). Aberdeen had visited Athens in 1803, and served as British Prime Minister from 1852 to 1855; his son donated the relief to the British Museum in 1861. Demetria is seated o...
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483.

Dedication by managers of tribe Leontis, 357/6 BC

IG II3 4 207 Date: 357/6 BC
Notes:
... have been moved out from Athens to Daphni for building purposes. This is unusual, but does occur; cf. IG II2 488 with M. N. Tod, ABSA 9, 1902-3, 155-56. [2] The chief offici...
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484.

Grave stele of Chairippe

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 5 Date: early iv BC
Notes:
... Zograffos, at whose house in Athens Inwood found this monument, was a guide and servant of Lord Byron, who had travelled to England with the poet and later returned to Greece to f...
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485.

Dedication of an (ephebic?) gymnasiarch commemorating victory in a torch-race

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 4 Date: after 334/3 BC?
Notes:
... life. The original findspot within Athens of this inscription is uncertain. However, it may have been set up at a tribal sanctuary in the city. If the relief celebrates an ephebic vict...
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486.

Grave stele of Kleo (?)

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 26 Date: 360-340 BC
Notes:
... by Lord Elgin, probably in Athens (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). It depicts a woman labelled as Xeno seated on a high-backed chair, perhaps suggesting her advanced age or social maturit...
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487.

Honours (?)

IG II3 1 1417 Date: Ca. 200-150 BC
Notes:
... stoa of Zeus Eleutherios at Athens cf. Agora III 38.
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488.

Marker of property of the Piraeans

AIO 2035 Date: 400-300 BC
Notes:
... Jones, The Associations of Classical Athens (1999), 59 = SEG 49.175 (not an Attic prose form). See also P. Gauthier, Bull. ép. 2005, no. 203 (somewhat sceptical). We must conclude that it...
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489.

Grave stele of a daughter of Euphrosynos

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 13 Date: ii AD
Notes:
... This inscription was acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). The first preserved letter (eta) should form the end of a female name, likely followed by her father's nam...
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490.

Funerary monument of an Athenian on Aegina

IG I3 1503 Date: Ca. 457-431 BC
Notes:
... designated by his city (i.e. Athens) rather than his deme, which was only used for identification within Attica; this is duly done, but it seems only as an afterthought as ‘Antist...
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491.

Dedication to Goddess Roma and Augustus

IG II3 4 11 Date: After 27 BC
Notes:
... the cult of Augustus at Athens, see Agora XVI 336 with notes.
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492.

Choregic dedication of Meneteles for the City Dionysia

IG II3 4 439 Date: ca. end of 5th cent. BC (I) / ca. 300 BC (II)
Notes:
... was a sculptor active in Athens during the last quarter of the fourth and first quarter of the third century BC, well attested by literary and epigraphic evidence (e.g., IG II...
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493.

Honours for the officials in charge of revenues

IG II3 1 1302 Date: 181/0 BC
Notes:
... responsibilities were also divided between Athens' two commercial centres, the city and the Piraeus. [Lambert]
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494.

Dedication by an ephebe victor

IG II3 4 410 Date: 1st cent. AD
Notes:
... of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12.
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495.

Decree of an association?

AIUK 4.3A (BM, Decrees of Other Bodies) no. 6 Date: mid-1st cent. BC ?
Notes:
... among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). Like AIUK 4.3A, no. 4 and AIUK 4.3A, no. 5, it appears to be an enactment of a voluntary association, per...
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496.

Letter to Hadrian or Antoninus Pius

AIUK 4.3A (BM, Decrees of Other Bodies) no. 8 Date: 128-161 AD
Notes:
... by Lord Elgin, perhaps in Athens (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). For discussion see AIUK 4.3A, no. 9.
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497.

Honours for the commissioners for refurbishment of the Tholos

IG II3 1 1300 Date: 181/0 BC
Notes:
... be ruled out. Cf. Habicht, Athens, 222. [2] "Sunshade", Skias, was the term commonly used to refer to the building in the Agora also known as the tholos or "rotunda", since in...
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498.

Decrees about reassessment of tribute of the Delian League, 425/4 BC ("Thoudippos' decrees")

AIO 959 Date: 425/4 BC
Notes:
... which was taken over by Athens in 431. [13] The first digit is restored and what survives of the rest of the number would also be consistent with 960 talents, though the hi...
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499.

Dedication by an ephebe victor

IG II3 4 413 Date: 1st-2nd cents. AD
Notes:
... of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12.
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500.

Dedication by an ephebic superintendent

IG II3 4 416 Date: 117-138 AD
Notes:
... of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12.
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501.

Funerary naiskos of Metagenes

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 34 Date: 350-300 BC
Notes:
... it there rather than in Athens then it might have been sold at Istanbul or at least shipped from there. It is an upper section of a naiskos stele crowned by a pediment with a...
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502.

Dedication by a friendly society (eranistai)

IG II3 4 634 Date: Mid-4th cent. BC
Notes:
... Private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens, 2003, 86-87. For comparable dedications from the mining area cf. IG II3 4, 633 (possibly by the same association), 645. [3] Kadous and Tibei...
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503.

Dedication commemorating competition-direction and other offices of Glaukon of Aithalidai

IG II3 4 528 Date: 282/1 or 266/5 BC
Notes:
... IG II3 1, 912). When Athens was captured in 263/2 BC he took refuge in Alexandria and became a high official of the Ptolemies (Athenian Onomasticon s.v. Glaukon of Aithali...
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504.

Funerary columella of Euklidas of Hermione

AIUK 3 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) no. 8 Date: ca. 1st cent. AD?
Notes:
... memorials, funerary commemoration in Hellenistic Athens was characterised by the columella, inscribed simply with the name of the deceased (cf. IG II2 8408). When, from the late first century BC, th...
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505.

Honours for Theophantos

IG II3 1 343 Date: 332/1 and 323/2 BC
Notes:
... destroyed in the aftermath of Athens' defeat in 322, and re-inscribed under the briefly restored democracy of 318/7. This is the reinscribed version, IG II3 1, 342 is probably the ...
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506.

Dedication commemoriating an (ephebic?) gymnasiarchy

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 6 Date: 1st cent. BC
Notes:
... 4.1, no. 2), is from Athens (like most, but not all, of that collection, cf. AIUK 4.5, Appendix). The gymnasiarchy was ubiquitous in the cities of the Greek world in the R...
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507.

Dedication to Eileithyia by a woman of Thespiai

IG II3 4 1141 Date: ca. 400-350 BC
Notes:
... the temple of Eileithyia at Athens (1.18.5). They may all depict Eilethyia, who could be conceived of as plural or singular (e.g. Hom. Il. 11.269-272, 19.119). The dedication is ...
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508.

Dedication to the Eileithyiai by a father and mother

IG II3 4 1149 Date: 1st cent. AD
Notes:
... Cf. Byrne, Roman Citizens of Athens 348 n. 41. On Athenian dedications to Eileithyia, see IG II3 4, 1151, with notes. This dedication was first published by W. Peek, AM 67, 1942 [...
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509.

Funerary naiskos of Tryphon

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 40 Date: mid-i AD
Notes:
... It had been excavated at Athens and bought at Smyrna by Rev. Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell (1780-1846), who had been a chaplain there from 1822. The deeply carved relief from t...
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510.

Decree of the genos Kerykes honouring Euthydemos, deputy of the basileus

I Eleusis 100 Date: ca. 320-290 BC
Notes:
... BC (for the date cf. Athens and Macedon, 38-48). On Euthydemos see I Eleusis 101. For the Eleusinian genē and their inscribed decrees see I Eleusis 87, with notes. On the ...
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