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241.

Athenian dedication on the Marathon Base at Delphi

Choix de Delphes 15 Date: ca. 480-460 BC (A) / after 280s BC, possibly ca. 200 BC (B)
Notes:
... eds., Innovations and Inventions in Athens, 2020, 30-31). A terminus post quem for this extension is provided by F.Delphes III 2, 71, a Delphic proxe...
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242.

Choregic dedication (from Halai Aixonides?)

IG II3 4 498 Date: 400-375 BC?
Notes:
... of performance competitions in Classical Athens: those relating to the dithyrambic competitions at the City Dionysia (on which see IG II3 4, 460, wit...
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243.

Ephebic monument, 194/5 AD?

AIUK 4.3B (BM, Ephebic Monuments) no. 5 Date: 194/5 AD ?
Notes:
[1] The major part of this inscription of the 190s AD (fragment a) was acquired on a visit to Athens in 1747-8 by the physician and collector of book...
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244.

Decree of the orgeones of Bendis (240/39 BC)

IG II2 1283 Date: 240/39 BC
Notes:
... the city hall. [4] Athens itself, as opposed to the Piraeus. Athens had been politically divided from the Piraeus at several periods in the third c...
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245.

Honours for a friend of king Eumenes II

IG II3 1 1257 Date: 196/5 BC
Notes:
... created in 307/6 (cf. Habicht, Athens, 194-204). In 197 Attalos was succeeded by his son, Eumenes II (197-158 BC), and this is the first of a long se...
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246.

Honorific decree of Hippothontis

I Eleusis 63 Date: ca. 400-385 BC
Notes:
... mostly these were located in Athens (Erechtheis, Pandionis and Kekropis on the Acropolis), but the sanctuary of the Eleusinian hero, Hippothoon, was ...
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247.

Altar for Hadrian

SEG 21.711 Date: 132 AD
Notes:
[1] This is one of over a hundred surviving altars from Athens dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD), as saviour, founder, and Olympios. T...
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248.

Decree on the repair of a statue of Athena Nike

IG II3 1 444 Date: Ca. 336-330 BC
Notes:
... with the Past in Lykourgan Athens", in L. Foxhall et al. eds., Intentional History (2010), 225-38 = IALD II, 115-31; "Some Political Shifts in Lykour...
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249.

Dedication for generals by soldiers, 111/0 BC

IG II3 4 276 Date: 111/0 BC
Notes:
... most prestigious military official in Athens: G. J. Oliver, War, Food, and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens (2007), 163-64. The general of the fl...
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250.

Dedication of the Athenian Stoa at Delphi

IG I3 1464 Date: End of the sixth or first half of the fifth cent. BC
Notes:
... eds., Innovations and Inventions in Athens, 2020, 219-20). In the former case, the project might have been conceived and implemented in the early yea...
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251.

Honours for the priestess of Aglauros

IG II3 1 1002 Date: 250/49 BC
Notes:
... implications for the topography of Athens (G. S. Dontas, Hesperia 52, 1983, 48-63 = SEG 33.115). In myth, Aglauros (sometimes Agraulos) was one of th...
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252.

Base for Septimius Severus

AIO 2736 Date: 193-211 AD
Notes:
... Augusta the ]|[ saviour of Athens] and of Athena [Polias (dedicated this statue), having sacrificed and obtained] | [good omens about a greater work ...
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253.

Decree on the administration of the property of Kodros, Neleus and Basile

IG I3 84 Date: 418/7 BC
Notes:
... gave his life to save Athens from the Dorians, and Neleus was his father (alternatively king of Pylos, cf. Hdt. 5.65). [4] The precise meaning of ...
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254.

Memorial of war-dead (tribe Erechtheis), 460-459 BC

IG I3 1147 Date: 460-459 BC
Notes:
[1] It was "ancestral custom" for Athenians to bury their war dead at Athens, though there were exceptions (e.g. Marathon, Thuc. 2.34, Plataia, Hdt. ...
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255.

Honours for the prytany of Ptolemais, 192/1 BC

AIUK 4.2 (BM, Decrees of Council and Assembly) no. 15 Date: 192/1 BC
Notes:
[1] Fragment c of this inscription (containing lines 25-39 and the left side of ll. 40-44) was acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin and was among the obj...
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256.

Funerary stele for Epiktesis, daughter of Onasos of Kytherros

AIUK 11 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) no. 14bis Date: ca. 150-200 AD
Notes:
... is a well-attested name at Athens, and becomes more common in the imperial period. If, as is likely here, "of Kytherros" is a demotic rather than the...
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257.

Alliance with Boeotians, 395 BC

Agora XVI 34 Date: 395 BC
Notes:
... context for an alliance between Athens and a federal Boeotia before the King's Peace is the beginning of the Corinthian War in 395. The war developed...
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258.

Letter from Hadrian on gifts for the boys (132 AD)

Oliver, Constitutions 85 Date: 132 AD
Notes:
... third and final visit to Athens, during which he inaugurated the Temple of Zeus Olympios. The "Olympios" inscribed on a sculpted shield in the pedime...
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259.

Honours for the girls who worked on the robe for Athena (108/7 BC)

AIUK 1 (Petworth House) no. 1 Date: 108/7 BC (decree 2), 108/7 BC or earlier (decree 1)
Notes:
... Athena on the acropolis of Athens at the city's principal religious festival, the Panathenaia. The central scene of the Parthenon frieze in the Briti...
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260.

Honours for Philoxenos

AIO 2637 Date: ca. 53-67 AD
Notes:
... this period come from outside Athens (i.e., the decision to inscribe was not made by the Athenians). Throughout the first two centuries AD, statue ba...
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261.

Abydos honours Hadrian

IG II2 3290 Date: ca. 132 AD
Notes:
[1] This statue base is part of a group erected for Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD) in the precinct of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. On Hadrian at Ath...
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262.

Sarcophagus for Aelius Epikrates of Berenikidai

AIUK 8 (Broomhall) no. 5 Date: ca. 125-150 AD (chest); ca. 200-250 AD (lid, with inscription)
Notes:
... number of them deriving from Athens (Attic sarcophagi were also exported in large numbers), but inscriptions on sarcophagi discovered in Athens are v...
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263.

Restoration of the Piraeus walls

Maier, Mauerbauinschriften, no. 1 Date: 395/4 BC
Notes:
... of the requirements imposed on Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War was the destruction of the long walls and the Piraeus walls. Athens in effe...
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264.

Ephebic monument

AIUK 4.3B (BM, Ephebic Monuments) no. 3 Date: ca. 110-120 AD
Notes:
[1] This fragment (or rather two joining fragments) of the early-2nd century AD was among the inscriptions acquired in Athens after 1801 by Lord Elgi...
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265.

Decree of artists of Dionysos honouring their manager, Philemon

I Eleusis 271 Date: ca. 76 BC or shortly after
Notes:
... theatrical artists of Dionysos” at Athens in the 2nd cent. AD see see AIUK 4.3A, no. 9. [2] These lines apparently referred to Athens’ Civilizing ...
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266.

Honours for Arybbas king of the Molossians

IG II3 1 411 Date: 342? BC
Notes:
[1] At nearly 3 metres preserved height, this is the largest honorific inscription to survive from ancient Athens. On the significance of this cf. IG...
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267.

Ordinances of deme Skambonidai

AIUK 4.1 (BM, Cult Provisions) no. 3 Date: ca. 475-450 BC
Notes:
[1] This inscription was acquired in Athens in 1765-6 by Richard Chandler on behalf of the Society of Dilettanti, and donated by them to the British ...
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268.

Cult provisions on an inscribed altar from the City Eleusinion

AIUK 4.1 (BM, Cult Provisions) no. 1 Date: ca. 510-470 BC
Notes:
... (ll. 15-30) was found in Athens (in an unspecified wall) by Richard Chandler in 1765-6 and acquired by him for the Society of Dilettanti, which in tu...
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269.

Posthumous honours for Zeno of Kition

IG II3 1 980 Date: 262/1 BC
Notes:
... of philosophy, had lived in Athens for about fifty years. [4] Neither of these inscribed versions of this decree survive. [5] In the period of At...
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270.

List of a board of archons

AIO 2660 Date: 9 BC – ca. 75 AD, probably 40s AD
Notes:
... the most prestigious office in Athens and was sometimes held by Roman emperors (usually in absentia) and other powerful foreigners (e.g. AIUK 11 (Ash...
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