INSCRIPTION

Honourific inscription to Vibullia Alcia Agrippina set up by the polis of Elis

"INSCRIPTION TEXT"

1 Βιβουλλίαν Ἀλκίαν Ἀγριππεῖν̣[αν],
θυγατέρ̣α Ῥ̣ού̣φου̣, Ἀ[ττ]ι[κ]ο[ῦ γυν]αῖκα̣,
Ἡρώδου μητέρα, ἡ πόλις ἡ τῶν
  Ἠλείων
  Inscription Type: Honourific inscription
  Date: middle of the 2nd c. CE
  Location: Olympia, exedra of the Nymphaion
  Museum (Storage Place:
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  Name of Woman Βιβουλλία Αλκία Αγριππίνα
  Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): Received honours
   Comments:

Statue base of Pentelic marble. Dedication of a statue by the polis of Elis for Herodes’ mother, Vibullia Alcia Agrippina. For the person, an Athenian woman, see PIR2 C 802; R. Stiglitz, RE VIII A 2 (1958) 2470-2471, s.v. Vibullius [12]; Halfmann, Senatoren, 123, 158; Ameling, Herodes Atticus I, 24. 28; Settipani, 469-470.

  Bibliography:

IvO 621; RP I, EL 341

  Author: Giorgos Mitropoulos
  Added: 2024-08-10
  Edited: