INSCRIPTION
Honourific inscription to Ti. Claudius Pratolaos, financed by Claudia Damostheneia (I)
"INSCRIPTION TEXT"
1 Ἡ π̣ό̣[λις]
Τιβ(έριον) Κλαύ(διον) Πρατόλαο[ν]
Βρασίδου, ἀγοραν[όμον]
ἐπὶ τὰς ὁδούς, ἐ[πὶ τῇ]
5 ἀνυπερβλήτῳ π[ερὶ τὴν]
ἀρχὴν καὶ λιτουργ[ίαν φι]-
λοτειμίᾳ προσδεξ̣[α]-
μένων τὸ ἀνάλωμα Τι-
βερίου Κλαυδίου Αἰλίου
10 Πρατολάου τοῦ καὶ Δαμο-
κρατίδου, ἱερέως κατὰ γέ-
νος Καρνείου Βοικέτα
καὶ Καρνείου Δρομαίου καὶ
Ποσειδῶνος Δωματείτα
15 καὶ Ἡρακλέους Γενάρχα
καὶ Κόρας καὶ Τεμενίου
τῶν ἐν τῷ Ἕλει καὶ τῶν συν-
καθειδρυμένων θεῶν
ἐν τοῖς προγεγραμμέ-
20 νοις ἱεροῖς, καὶ Κλαυδίας
Δαμοσθενείας, τῶν
παίδων.
Inscription Type: |
Honourific inscription |
Date: |
last quarter of 2nd c. CE |
Location: |
Amyclae, formerly walled within the cemetery at the church of Hagia Kyriaki |
Museum (Storage Place: |
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Inv. no: |
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Name of Woman |
Κλαυδία Δαμοσθενεία (Ι) |
Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): |
Funded honours |
Comments: |
Statue base decorated with cymatium at top and bottom bearing a honourific inscription for Ti. Claudius Pratolaos (RP II, LAC 314), whose statue was dedicated by the polis and funded by his children Ti. Claudius Aelius Pratolaos and Claudia Damostheneia. Ti. Claudius Pratolaos was a prominent Spartan, having served as boagos, agoranomos concerned with road works and was honoured as an aristopolites. His son and brother of Claudia Damostheneia, Ti. Claudius Aelius Pratolaos, was priest of many local deities (RP II, LAC 290). |
Bibliography: |
IG V 1, 497; RP II, LAC 219 [1] |
Author: |
Giorgos Mitropoulos |
Added: |
2024-08-17 |
Edited: |