INSCRIPTION

Honourific inscription to Memmia Xenokrateia set up by the polis, funded by her daughter, Iulia Etymokledeia

"INSCRIPTION TEXT"

1 Ἡ πόλις


τὴ<ν> ἀξιολογωτάτην


Μεμμίαν Ξενοκράτια[ν]


Δεξιμάχου, ἑστίαν πό-


5 λεως, τὴν θοιναρ̣μό-


στριαν τῶν ἱερῶν ἀμ-


φωτέρων μεγαλοπρ[ε]-


πῶς καὶ ἀξίως, τῆς τ[ε]


εὐ̣γενείας τῆ[ς οἰκεί̣ας]


καὶ τῆς πατ[ρίδος πο]-


10 λειτευσαμ[ένην, προσ-]


δεξαμένω[ν τὸ ἀνάλω]-


μα Καλλιστο[---]


Ἀλκάστου Ἐ[τυμοκλη]-


δείας τῶν ἀξι[ολογωτά]-


των παίδω[ν αὐτῆς].
  Inscription Type: Honourific inscription
  Date: late Antonine period
  Location: Eleusinion, formerly built into a private house in Kalyvia Sochas
  Museum (Storage Place: Archaeological Museum of Sparta
  Inv. no:
  Name of Woman Ιουλία Ετυμοκληδεία
  Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): Funded honours
   Comments:

Statue base with inscription in honour of the thoinarmostria Memmia Xenokrateia (RP II, LAC 542), whose statue was set up by the polis, at the expense of her children, including her daughter Iulia Etymokledeia.
  Bibliography:

Cook – Nicholls 1950, 278-280 (πρβλ. BÉ 1952, 60a); RP II, LAC 387 [3A]; πρβλ. Tod 1952, 122 (SEG 11, 1950, 812 και add. et. corr. 812a, ll. 14-15); Spawforth 1985, 206 (πρβλ. SEG 35, 1985, 317); Kourinou – Pikoula, 1986, 68-69, αρ. 6 (SEG 36, 1986, 353)
  Author: Giorgos Mitropoulos
  Added: 2024-08-22
  Edited: