INSCRIPTION
A votive inscription by Iulia Dikaiosyne to Zeus Olympios
"INSCRIPTION TEXT"
1 Ἰουλία [Δικαι]οσύνη, Γαΐο[υ Ἰο]υ[λίο]υ Ἰτ[αλικοῦ],
βασιλέ[ως — — — — υἱ]οῦ, θ[υγάτηρ — — — — — — — — — — —]․
[— — — ἱερατεύσ]ασα [— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —]ΛΥ
[— — — καὶ γενομ]ένη [— — —, Διὶ Ὀλυμπίῳ ἀνέθηκεν Ὀλυμπιά]δι
5 [․․․ʹ]
Inscription Type: |
Votive Inscription |
Date: |
1st / 2nd c. CE |
Location: |
Olympia |
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Inv. no: |
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Name of Woman |
Ιουλία Δικαιοσύνη |
Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): |
Dedicant - Priestess |
Comments: |
Twelve fragments of a marble plaque, which may have served originally as a roof tile from the temple of Zeus. Iulia Dikaiosyne, who perhaps made this dedication to Zeus Olympios, was probably priestess of an unknown deity. The father of the person, Gaius Iulius Italicus is characterized as a βασιλεύς, so Dittenberger and Purgold proposed that he was a member of a deposed oriental dynasty, who lived in a Greek city in the 1st or 2nd c. CE. |
Bibliography: |
IvO 286; RP I, EL 228. |
Author: |
Giorgos Mitropoulos |
Added: |
2024-08-10 |
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