INSCRIPTION

Dedication of a statue in honour of Claudia Alkia, hearth-initiate, by her father Tiberius Claudius Hipparchos

"INSCRIPTION TEXT"

1 Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Ἡρώδου [υἱὸς]
Ἵππαρχος Μαραθώνιος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ
θυγατέρα Κλαυδίαν Ἀλκί<α>ν μυηθεῖσαν
<ἀ>φ’ ἑστίας Δήμητρι καὶ Κόρῃ ἐπὶ ἱερείας
5 Κλεοῦς τῆς Εὐκλέους Φλυέως, γόνῳ δὲ
Νεικοδήμου Ἑρμείου θυγατρός.
  Inscription Type: Honourific / Votive inscription
  Date: ca. 65 CE
  Location: Eleusis
  Museum (Storage Place: Archaeological Museum of Eleusis
  Inv. no:
  Name of Woman Κλαυδία Αλκία
  Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): Hearth-initiate - Received honours
   Comments: Base of blue-gray (‘Hymettian’) marble, preserved on all sides. Dedication of a statue in honour of Claudia Alkia, hearth-initiate, by her father, the prominent Tiberius Claudius Hipparchos. The dedication was made to the goddesses of Eleusis and is dated after the priesthood of Kleo.
  Bibliography:

IG II² 3604a; I. Eleusis 364

  Author: Giorgos Mitropoulos
  Added: 2024-12-04
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