INSCRIPTION
Honourific inscription to M. Aurelius Kleonymos, funded by Aurelia Hagion
"INSCRIPTION TEXT"
1 Ἡ πόλις
Μᾶρ(κον) Αὐρ(ήλιον) Κλεώνυμον
τὸν καὶ Ὕμνον Ὕμνου
βωμονείκην, συνέ-
5 φηβον τοῦ ἀξιολογω-
τάτου Σέξ(του) Πομ(πηΐου) Γοργίπ-
που τοῦ Ὀνασικράτους,
ἀνδρείας χάριν,
vacat
προσδεξαμένης τὸ ἀνάλωμα
10 τῆς ἀξιολογωτάτης καὶ πάντα
ἀρίστης Αὐρ(ηλίας) Ἁγίου τῆς Εὐδά-
μου τῆς τοῦ βουαγοῦ μητρός
Inscription Type: |
Honourific inscription |
Date: |
after 212 CE (?) |
Location: |
Sparta, in the foundations of the Roman quasi-amphitheater at the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia |
Museum (Storage Place: |
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Inv. no: |
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Name of Woman |
Αυρηλία Αγίον |
Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): |
Funded honours |
Comments: |
Circular marble base with a honourific inscription for M. Aurelius Kleonymos set up by the polis of Sparta. He was a synephebos of Sex. Pompeius Gorgippos, whose mother, the ἀξιολογωτάτη καὶ πάντα ἀρίστη Aurelia Hagion funded this monument. On Aurelia Hagion, see Bradford, 15-16. It is unsure whether she obtained Roman citizenship through the Constitutio Antoniniana or whether it had been granted to her family earlier and before her marriage. According to Spawforth 1984, 280, the marriage took place before 212 CE. Her husband was σύναρχος of the agoranomia, eponymous patronomos and high-priest of the imperial cult, RP II, LAC 630. Her son, attested in the epigraphic text, is characterized as axiologotatos and having served as a boagos, RP II, LAC 627. |
Bibliography: |
IG V 1, 653b, add. σελ. 304; RP II, LAC 60 |
Author: |
Giorgos Mitropoulos |
Added: |
2024-08-14 |
Edited: |