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Dedication to Athena Longatis by Fellow-sacrificers [1] (ca. 300 BCE) Thebes - Boeotia


Thebes (Boeotia, Greece and Macedonia — Pleiades map), ca. 300 BCE
IG VII 2463 + SEG 31 (1981), no. 497 = PHI 145958 = AGRW ID# 22129
Copenhagen Inventory info: 964


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Statue base of gray limestone.

The fellow-sacrificers (synthytai) dedicated this statue to Athena Longatis for the sake of concord:  Ptoileis, Pouthon, Samias son of Ismeiniketas, Timokleis son of Dioklidas, Diodoros son of Hiaroklidas, Ismeinias son of Dinomachos, Asopodoros son of Drimywores, Blakion son of Damon, Melambios son of Dion, (two missing lines with a name on each), (column 2) (twelve lines of missing names, with one patronym–Kallichoros–surviving).

Histiaios from Athens made this.

 

Translation by: Harland



το[ὶ] συνθύτη Ἀθανῆ Λ̣[ογγάτιδι τὸ ἄγαλμ]α ἀνέθιαν. | ὁ[μ]ονο[ίας ἕνεκα(?)] |

{column 1, line 3} Πτωΐλλεις | Π[ο]ύθω[ν] || [Σ]αμίας Ἱσμ[ει]ν̣ικετῆ̣ος | [Τ]ιμοκ̣λεῖς Διοκλίδαο | [Δ]ιόδωρος Ἱαροκλίδαο | [Ἱ]σμεινίας Δινομάχιος | [Ἀ]σ<ω>πόδωρος Δριμ[υ]ϝορῆος || Β̣λακίων Δαμώνιος | Μελάμβιος Διώνιος | Ἐουδει[— — —] | [— — —]

{column 2} [— — —] | [— —]αθιος Καλλιχόριος | [— — —] || [— — —] | [— — —] | [— — —] | [— — —] | [— — —] || [— — —] | [— — —] | [— — —] | [— — —] |

{spanning columns 1 and 2, beginning at line 14} Ἱστιαῖος Ἀθηναῖος ἐπόησε.

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Item modified: September 4, 2020
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