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Proxeny for Apollas son of Tharrhynon [of Kolophon?]

ELA id: 47

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IG 2[3] 1 1141Inscriptiones Graecae. Vol. II et III. Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Editio tertia. Pars I. Fasciculus II (nos. 292-572, S.D. Lambert). Fasciculus IV (nos. 844-1134, M.G. Osborne - S.G. Byrne). Fasciculus V (nos. 1135-1461, N.V. Bardani, S.V. Tracy). Berlin 2012-2015

Inv. number

ΕΜ 7496

Translations

AIO [>] , AXON, IG Online [>]

Images

Aleshire, Imaging Inscriptions, OSU Squeeze Collection [>] , UBC Epigraphic Squeezes, ASCSA Net

Description

Date

slightly after 229/8 BCE

Period: 3rd century BCE --> second half --> after 229 BCE, liberation from Macedonian control

Reasons: historical context, paleography

Text category

honorific decree (proxeny), honorific decree (enktesis), honorific decree (praise - crown)

The honourand Apollas was most probably a metic; he had contributed to the fund "for freedom" in 229 (Habicht 1982 81-2Habicht Ch., «Studien zur Geschichte Athens in hellenistischer Zeit», Göttingen 1982) and, subsequently, to the reinforcement works in Zea harbour; cf. reference to σωτερία on l. 2.

Monument description

Monument type: stele

Material: white marble

Letters Height Mt: 0.006-0.007

Same stonecutter as:

IG 2[3] 1 1176Inscriptiones Graecae. Vol. II et III. Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Editio tertia. Pars I. Fasciculus II (nos. 292-572, S.D. Lambert). Fasciculus IV (nos. 844-1134, M.G. Osborne - S.G. Byrne). Fasciculus V (nos. 1135-1461, N.V. Bardani, S.V. Tracy). Berlin 2012-2015, see Tracy 1990  Tracy S.V., «Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C.», Berkeley - Los Angeles - Oxford 1990

Physical features

Measurements: h: 0.42 * w: 0.362 * t: 0.115

State of conservation: The stele is broken both at the top and the bottom; the original right and left sides are roughly preserved; the stone is, overall, rather damaged.

Legibility: The inscribed surface is rather damaged, especially all around the edges.

Findspot

✓unknown

Circumstances: museum / collection

First edition:

Koehler, IG 2 380Inscriptiones Graecae II: Inscriptiones Atticae aetatis quae est inter Euclidis annum et Augusti tempora. (Voll. I-IV, Berlin 1877-1893). Ed. U. Koehler

Koehler: «Excripsi in Museum Societatis Archaeologicae».

Original location

Acropolis
Details:

Rather likely, this stele may have been originally set up in proximity of IG 2[3] 1 1140Inscriptiones Graecae. Vol. II et III. Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Editio tertia. Pars I. Fasciculus II (nos. 292-572, S.D. Lambert). Fasciculus IV (nos. 844-1134, M.G. Osborne - S.G. Byrne). Fasciculus V (nos. 1135-1461, N.V. Bardani, S.V. Tracy). Berlin 2012-2015, whose general contents and historical circumstances were essentially the same.

Internal references to Athenian places and monuments:

Zea harbour

Publication provisions and other related clauses

Publication clause

(ll. 27-32): [ἀναγράψαι δὲ τόδ]ε τὸ ψήφισμα τὸγ γραμματέα [τὸν κατὰ πρυτανεία]ν ἐν στή[λ]ηι λιθίνηι καὶ̣ στῆσα̣[ι ἐν ἀκροπόλει· τὸ] δ’ ἀνάλω[μα τ]ὸ γενόμ[ε]νον ε[ἰς τὴν ἀναγραφὴν τῆς σ]τή[λης μ]ερίσαι τὸν τα[μίαν τῶν στρατιωτικῶν].                   vacat

Location

ἐν ἀκροπόλει

Hortatory Intention

(ll. 15-8): [ἵνα οὖν] [καὶ] ὁ δῆμος τοῖς εὐεργετεῖν ἑαυτὸν̣ [βουλομένοι]ς τὰ δυνατὰ φαίνηται τῶν ἀξί[ων ἀποδιδ]ούς, κτλ.

Responsible Officials

Secretary of the Council (kata prytaneian), Tamias of Stratiotic Fund