INSCRIPTION

Dedication to Antonia Kleodike by the polis of Elis and the Olympic boule

"INSCRIPTION TEXT"

1 Ἡ πόλις Ἠλείων καὶ ἡ
Ὀλυμπικὴ βουλὴ Ἀντω-
 νίαν Κλεοδίκην Μ(άρκου) Ἀντω-
 νίου Ἀλεξίωνος καὶ Κλαυ-
5 δίας Κλεοδίκης θυγατέρα,
 μητέρα Τιβ(ερίου) Κλαυδίου Πέλο-
 πος καὶ Κλαυδίας Δαμοξέ-
 νας καὶ Τιβ(ερίου) Κλαυδίου Ἀρι-
 στομένους πάσης ἕνε-
10 κεν ἀρετῆς καὶ εὐσεβείας
   Διὶ Ὀλυμπίῳ
  Inscription Type: Honourific inscription
  Date: second half of the 1st c. CE
  Location:

Olympia, pronaos of the temple of Hera

  Museum (Storage Place:
  Inv. no:
  Name of Woman Αντώνια Κλεοδίκη
  Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): Received honours
   Comments:

Statue base of Pentelic marble erected by the polis of Elis and the Olympic boule in honour of Antonia Kleodike. On the person and her prominent Elean family, see Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, A 78 and 99, cf. RP I, EL 34.

  Bibliography:

IvO 429; RP I, EL 22 [1].

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