INSCRIPTION
Honourific inscription to C. Pomponius Panthales (I) Diogenes Aristeas, funded by his wife Memmia Longeine
"INSCRIPTION TEXT"
1 Ἡ πόλις
Γά(ιον) Πομπώ(νιον) Πανθ̣άλη Διογένη Ἀριστέα ἐπί τε τῇ ἄλλῃ το[ῦ]
βίου παντὸς ἀρετῇ καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ τῆς ἀγορανομίας ἀνυπερ-
βλήτῳ μεγαλοψυχίᾳ καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ καμάτων καὶ πάσης ἐπιμε-
5 λείας παρρησίᾳ προσδεξαμένων τὸ ἀνάλωμα
τῶν μὲν ἑπτὰ ἀνδριάντων τῶν ἀξιολογωτάτων παίδων
αὐτοῦ Πομπω(νίου) Πανθάλους τοῦ καὶ Ἀριστοκλέους καὶ Καλ-
λιστον̣είκης τῆς καὶ Ἀρέτης καὶ τῆς ἀξιολογωτάτης γυ-
ναικὸς αὐτοῦ Μεμ(μίας) Λονγείνης τῆς Ἀριστοκλέους ————— τῶν
10 δὲ τριῶν ἀνδριάντων τοῦ πανταπρώτου Ποπ(λίου) Μεμ(μίου)
Πρατολάου τοῦ καὶ Ἀριστοκλέους τοῦ Δαμάρους ἀρι-
στοπολειτευτοῦ τοῦ πενθεροῦ καὶ τῆς ἀξιολογω-
τάτης Κλαυ(δίας) Λονγείνης τῆς Ἀριστοτέλους τῆς πενθε-
ρᾶς καὶ Ποπ(λίου) Μεμ(μίου) Δαμάρους τοῦ Ἀριστοκλέους ————— τῶν δὲ
15 δύο ἀνδριάντων Μάρ(κου) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Νεικηφόρου τοῦ Φιλωνίδα
φιλοκαίσαρος καὶ φιλοπάτριδος αἰωνίου ἀγορανόμο[υ]
αἰωνίου γυμνασιάρχου καὶ Μάρ(κου) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Ἀλκισθένους τοῦ
Εὐελπίστου προστάτου πόλεως.
Inscription Type: |
Honourific inscription |
Date: |
ca. 223 CE |
Location: |
Sparta, reused as a support of the westernmost of the washing basins in a later 3rd c. CE nymphaeum at the theatre |
Museum (Storage Place: |
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Inv. no: |
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Name of Woman |
Μεμμία Λονγείνη |
Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): |
Funded honours |
Comments: |
Two duplicates of an inscription in honour of C. Pomponius Panthales Diogenes Aristeas (RP II, LAC 646), set up by the polis of Sparta. In exchange for his services towards the city especially as an agoranomos (he was also high-priest of the imperial cult), he was honoured with twelve statues, seven of them funded by his wife, Memmia Longeine, together with their two children. |
Bibliography: |
Woodward 1926-27, 8; 1927-28, 34-35, σημ. 57 (πρβλ. SEG 1950, 798); Spawforth 1985, 239, αρ. 137; RP II, LAC 541 |
Author: |
Giorgos Mitropoulos |
Added: |
2024-08-24 |
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