INSCRIPTION
Honours bestowed to the priestess Aequana Musa
"INSCRIPTION TEXT"
1 Aequanae
Sex(ti) f(iliae) Musae
sacerd(oti) Dianae
Aug(ustae) Laphriae et
5 sac(erdoti) Aug(usti) imagin<e>
et statuis II [h]on(orata)
d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)
Sex(tus) A<equa>nus
pa[t(er)].
Inscription Type: |
Honourific inscription |
Date: |
Beginning of the imperial period |
Location: |
Patrae |
Museum (Storage Place: |
Now lost |
Inv. no: |
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Name of Woman |
Aequana Musa |
Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): |
Priestess |
Comments: |
A stone with an inscription commemorating the offices of Aequana Musa, priestess of Augustus and Diana Augusta Laphria and honoured by a decree of the decuriones with an image and two statues. For a funerary plaque of an Appuleia Musa, see Rizakis, Achaïe II, n. 86. |
Bibliography: |
CIL III, 510; Rizakis, Achaïe II, αρ. 5, στ. 4-6; RP I, ACH 16. |
Author: |
Giorgos Mitropoulos |
Added: |
2024-05-16 |
Edited: |
2024-05-16 |