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Membership List of a Contribution-society (ca. 135 BCE) Athens - Attica


Athens (Attica, Greece and Macedonia — Pleiades map), ca. 135 BCE
GRA I 40 = IG II² 2358 = PHI 4594 = AGRW ID# 3943
Copenhagen Inventory info: 572


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Slab (stele) of white marble, broken at the top and the bottom (58 x 49 x 9 cm). Discovered in a house in Chalandri (10 km. NW from the center of Athens). The 94 association members include both men and women of varying social status and there are at least two immigrants (see notes to GRA I 40). Some secondary names are abbreviated.

. . . Eirenaios of Antioch, son of Eirenaios, set up the monument (stele).  Erenaios, the head of the contribution-society (archeranistēs), Eirenaios the younger, the priest; (column 1) Bithys, Metrophanes, Theokles, Neon, Lamedon, Antigonos, Eumenes, Bagchides, Onesimos, Chresimos, Diokles, Zenon, Apollonios, Hermon, Damon, Noumenios, Diodoros of Sounion, Xenon, Onesimos the younger, Euphranor, Asklepides, Parnasos, Strymon, Sarapion, Dionysodoros, Daos, Menodotos . . . (column 2) Demokleia, Straonike, Ammonia, Thebageneiea, Dionysia, Dionysia, Diodote, Metriche, Gnome, Apollonia, Eutychis, Metrodora, Hedeia, Euporia Philoni., Dionysia Ammo., Kleopatra, Ammia, Isias, Erotis, Diodora, Philainis, Persis, Doris, Antiochis, Diodote, Sardion, Euporia, Epikarpia, Arete, . . . (column 3) Artemidoros, Menandros, Philonides, Dorotheos, Mysta, Mnason, Herakleides Philo., Moschion, Sarapion, Glaukias, Philonides Iphis. (Iphistiades), Glaukos, Arsakes, Maarkos, Onesimos, Botrys, Herakleitos, Hieron, Philon, Halaieus, Herakleides Maratho., Athendoros, Eirenaios son of Menandros, Chalinos, Lamedon the younger, Lysanias, Artemidora, Lysanias, Ionides, Asklepias, Diodotos, Stratonike, Demokritos, Alexion, Nikostratos, Biottos, Artemisia . . .

Translation by: Harland



[ — — — Εἰρηναῖος?] | [Εἰρην]αίου Ἀντιοχεὺς | [ἀνέθη]κεν τὴν στήλην | [ἀ]ρχερανιστὴς Εἰρηναῖος | [ἱ]ερεὺς Εἰρηναῖος νεώτερος

(column 1, line 6) Βῖθυς | Μητροφάνης | Θεοκλῆς | Νέων || Λαμέδων | Ἀντίγονος | Εὐμένης | Βαγχίδης | Ὀνήσιμος || Χρήσιμος | Διοκλῆς | Ζήνων | Ἀπολλώνιος | Ἕρμων || Δάμων | Νουμήνιος | Διόδωρος Σουνιε | Ξένων | Ὀνήσιμος νεώ || Εὐφράνωρ | Ἀσκληπιάδης | Παρνασός | Στρύμων | Σ[α]ραπίων || Διονυσόδωρος | [Δ]ᾶος | [Μη]ν̣όδοτος — — —

(column 2, line 33) Δημόκλεια | Στρατονίκη || Ἀμμωνία | Θηβαγένεια | Διονυσία | Διονυσία | Διοδότη || Μητρίχη | Γνώμη | Ἀπολλωνία | Εὐτυχίς | Μητροδώρα || Ἡδεῖα | Εὐπορία Φιλωνί | Διονυσία Ἀμμω | Κλεοπάτρα | Ἀμμία || Ἰσιάς | Ἐρωτίς | Διοδώρα | Φιλαινίς | Περσίς || Δωρίς | Ἀντιοχίς | Διοδότη | Σάρδιον | Εὐπορία || Ἐπικαρπία | [Ἀρ]έ̣τη | ․․․․υ̣ν̣ [ — — — ]

(column 3, line 63) Ἀρτεμίδωρος | Μένανδρος || Φιλωνίδης | Δωρόθεος | Μύστα | Μνάσων | Ἡρακλείδης Φιλω || Μοσχίων | Σαραπίων | Γλαυκίας | Φιλωνίδης Ἰφισ | Γλαῦκος || Ἀρσάκης | Μάαρκος | Ὀνήσιμος | Βότρυς | Ἡράκλειτος || Ἱέρων | Φίλων Ἁλαιεύς | Ἡρακλείδης Μαραθώ | Ἀθηνόδωρος | Εἰρηναῖος Μενάνδρου || Χαλῖνος | Λαμέδων νεώ | Λυσανίας | Ἀρτεμιδώρα | Λυσανίας Ἰωνίδης || Ἀσκληπιάς | Διόδοτος | Στρατονίκη | Δημόκριτος | Ἀλεξίων || Νικόστρατος | Βίοττος | [Ἀ]ρτεμισία [ — — — ]

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