3 10 26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agonothesia (Organization) Description An account of the resource Attestations of women as organizers of Greek athletic contests. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source Type Physical type of source inscription Commentary Other editions include: IGR IV.1254. See also TAM V.2.931 (IGR IV.1225) and TAM V.2.995, as well as Mantas 1995, 138, no. 5; Begass 2025, 160–61; 179, no. 16. Translation With good fortune. The homeland (set up the statue of) Ulpia Marcella, priestess of Artemis, high-priestess of Asia of the temples in Smyrna, three times agonothetis of the homeland, priestess for life of the Mother of the gods. Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document ἀγαθῆι τύχηι | ἡ πατρὶς Οὐλ|πίαν Μαρκέλλαν | ἱερασαμένην | τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος, | ἀρχιέρειαν τῆς Ἀ|σίας ναῶν τῶν ἐν | Σμύρνῃ, ἀγωνο|θέτιν τρὶς τῆς | πατρίδος, ἱέρει|αν διὰ βίου τῆς | Μητρὸς τῶν | θεῶν. Edition used P. Hermann (ed.), Tituli Asiae Minoris, V.2: Tituli Lydiae linguis Graeca et Latina conscripti. Regio septentrionalis ad occidentem vergens, Vienna 1989. Bibliography C. Begass, Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie in der griechisch-römischen Welt vom Hellenismus bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2025. R. Cagnat et al. (eds.), Inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes IV, Paris 1927. (=IGR IV) K. Mantas, Women and Athletics in the Roman East, Nikephoros 8, 1995, 125–144. Location The location of the interview Thyateira Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TAM V.2.996: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Ulpia Marcella Type The nature or genre of the resource honorary inscription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource after 123 CE agonothetes agonothetis Artemis Asia Mother of the gods priestess Smyrna Thyateira Ulpia Marcella Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agonothesia (Organization) Description An account of the resource Attestations of women as organizers of Greek athletic contests. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source Type Physical type of source inscription Commentary See also IG V.1.559, as well as Mantas 1995, 137; Hupfloher 2000, 108, no. D6; Balzat 2010, 353–54; Begass 2025, 180, no. 26. Translation ll. 1–6, 13–15: Pomponia Kallistonike, daughter of Aristeos, hereditary priestess for life of the most manifest goddess Artemis Ortheia…, and of the contest of the most revered Dioskouroi… Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document ll. 1–6, 13–15: Πονπ<ω>νίαν Καλλ<ι>|στονείκην Ἀριστ[έ]|ου ἱέρειαν διὰ β̣ίου κ̣[αὶ] | διὰ γένους τῆς ἐ̣πιφ[ανε]|στάτης θεοῦ Ἀρτέμιδ[ος] | Ὀρθείας […] | καὶ τοῦ ἀγῶνο[ς] | τῶν σεμν<ο>τάτων Διοσκο̣[υ]|ρείων… Edition used W. Kolbe (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae, V.1: Inscriptiones Laconiae et Messenia, Berlin 1913. Bibliography C. Begass, Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie in der griechisch-römischen Welt vom Hellenismus bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2025. J.-S. Balzat, Prosopographie des prêtres et prêtresses des Dioscures dans la Sparte d’époque impériale, in: A. Rizakis, C. E. Lepenioti (eds.), Roman Peloponnese III: Studies on Political, Economic and Socio-Cultural History. Continuity and Innovation, Athens 2010, 341–55. A. Hupfloher, Kulte im kaiserzeitlichen Sparta: Eine Rekonstruktion anhand der Priesterämter, Berlin 2000. K. Mantas, Women and Athletics in the Roman East, Nikephoros 8, 1995, 125–144. Location The location of the interview Sparta Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource IG V.1.602: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Pomponia Kallistonike Type The nature or genre of the resource honorary inscription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource early 3rd cent. CE agonothetes agonothetis Aristeos Artemis Ortheia Dioskouroi Pomponia Kallistonike priestess Sparta Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agonothesia (Organization) Description An account of the resource Attestations of women as organizers of Greek athletic contests. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source Type Physical type of source inscription Commentary See also Hupfloher 2000, 65; Begass 2025, 180, no. 27. Translation ll. 1-5: The polis (set up the statue of) Pompeia Polla, daughter of Theoxenos, president and envoy for life of the very revered contest of the Hyakinthia… Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document ll. 1-5: ἡ πόλις | Πομπηΐαν Πῶλλαν Θε|οξένου τὴν ἀρχηῖδα καὶ | θεωρὸν διὰ βίου τοῦ σεμνο|τάτου ἀγῶνος τῶν Ὑακινθί|ων… Edition used W. Kolbe (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae, V.1: Inscriptiones Laconiae et Messenia, Berlin 1913. Bibliography C. Begass, Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie in der griechisch-römischen Welt vom Hellenismus bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2025. A. Hupfloher, Kulte im kaiserzeitlichen Sparta: Eine Rekonstruktion anhand der Priesterämter, Berlin 2000. Location The location of the interview Sparta Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource IG V.1.587: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Pompeia Polla Type The nature or genre of the resource honorary inscription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3rd cent. CE agonothetes agonothetis Hyakinthia Pompeia Polla Sparta theoros Theoxenos Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agonothesia (Organization) Description An account of the resource Attestations of women as organizers of Greek athletic contests. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source Type Physical type of source inscription Commentary Other editions include: SEG 19.859; I.Central Pisidia 157. cf. another inscription of Artemisia: Bean 1960, 78, no 130 (SEG 19.860; I.Central Pisidia 158). See also Mantas 1995, 139 Nr. 18; Begass 2025, 180, no. 28. Translation When the most remarkable Aurelia Polyer[– –] Artemisia was agonothetis of the pentaeteric contest Artemisia, celebrated for the first time, (this statue of) Aurelius Perikle[ides?], member of the council, winner of the pankration of the men, (was set up). Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document [ἀγωνοθετούσης τῆς] | ἀξιολ̣[ογωτάτης] | Αὐρη[λίας] | Πολυηρ[– – –] | Ἀρτεμεισίας | ἀγῶνα πενταετη[ρικὸν] | Ἀρτεμείσιον | ἀχθέντα τὸ αʹ | Αὐρήλιον Περικλε[ίδην(?)] | βουλευτὴν | νεικήσαντα ἀνδ[ρῶν] | πανκράτιν. Edition used G. E. Bean, Notes and Inscriptions from Pisidia II, in: Anatolian Studies: Journal of the British Inst. of Archaeology at Ankara 10, 1960, 43–82. Bibliography C. Begass, Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie in der griechisch-römischen Welt vom Hellenismus bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2025. J.J.E. Hondius et al. (eds.), Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden 1923-. (=SEG) G.H.R. Horsley, S. Mitchell (eds.), The Inscriptions of Central Pisidia, including texts from Kremna, Ariassos, Keraia, Hyia, Panemoteichos, the Sanctuary of Apollo of the Perminoundeis, Sia, Kocaaliler, and the Döşeme Boğazı (Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien 57), Bonn 2000.(=I.Central Pisidia) K. Mantas, Women and Athletics in the Roman East, Nikephoros 8, 1995, 125–144. Location The location of the interview Milyas (?) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bean, AS 10, 1960, 78, no. 129: the agonothetis Aurelia Polyer[– –] is named in a victory inscription Type The nature or genre of the resource honorary inscription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3rd cent. CE agonothetes agonothetis Artemisia Aurelia Polyer[– –] Artemisia Aurelius Perikle(ides?) bouleutes Milyas pankration Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agonothesia (Organization) Description An account of the resource Attestations of women as organizers of Greek athletic contests. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source Type Physical type of source inscription Commentary Other editions include: IGR IV.1229; I.Mus.Manisa 44. See also Mantas 1995, 139, no. 20; Campanile 1994, 122; Begass 2025, 163; 180, no. 22. Translation The council and the people (set up the statue of) Lucius Aur(elius) Aristomenes, after he has served magnificently as agonothetes; he is the son of L(ucius) Aur(elius) Aristomenos and Aurelia Tatia, agonothetai and high-priests of Asia. Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆ|μος Λούκιον Αὐρ. | Ἀριστομένη ἀγω|νοθετήσαντα με|γαλοπρεπῶς | υἱὸν Λ. Αὐρ. Ἀρισ|τομένους καὶ Αὐ|ρηλίας Τατίας | τῶν ἀγωνοθε|τῶν καὶ ἀρχιερέ|ων τῆς Ἀσίας. Edition used P. Hermann (ed.), Tituli Asiae Minoris, V.2: Tituli Lydiae linguis Graeca et Latina conscripti. Regio septentrionalis ad occidentem vergens, Vienna 1989. Bibliography C. Begass, Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie in der griechisch-römischen Welt vom Hellenismus bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2025. R. Cagnat et al. (eds.), Inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes IV, Paris 1927. (=IGR IV) M. D. Campanile, I sacerdoti del Koinon d’Asia (I sec. a. C. – III sec. d. C.): Contributo allo studio della romanizzazione delle élites provinciali nell’ Oriente Greco, Pisa 1994. H. Malay (ed.), Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum, Wien 1994. K. Mantas, Women and Athletics in the Roman East, in: Nikephoros 8, 1995, 125–144. Location The location of the interview Thyateira Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TAM V.2.944: the agonothetis Aurelia Tatia is named in an honorary inscription of her son Type The nature or genre of the resource honorary inscription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2nd/3rd cent. CE agonothetes agonothetis Aurelia Tatia high-priest high-priestess Lucius Aurelius Aristomenes Thyateira Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agonothesia (Organization) Description An account of the resource Attestations of women as organizers of Greek athletic contests. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source Type Physical type of source inscription Commentary Other editions include: OGIS 513; IGR IV.451; Ventroux 2019, 132, no. 19; Siekierka – Stebnicka – Wolicki 2021, 956–57, no. 881; Begass 2025, 170–71; 180, no. 23. Translation ll. 5-17: (The city of Pergamon honors) Aur(elia) Cl(audia) Apollonia, priestess of Athena Nikephoros and Polias, daughter of Cl(audius) Alexandros, the theologos, and Aur(elia) Apollonia, who is a daughter of Pythodikes, daughter of the family of the Epilaidai, who has served as priestess splendidly and magnificently for two years and has fulfilled all religious worship piously for following two years, who has been greeted with the hand three times in an honorable manner by the divine Antoninus (i. e. Caracalla), who has acted as agonothetis of the most revered festival of the Nikephoria. Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document ll. 5-17: … ἐτείμησεν | Αὐρ(ηλίαν) Κλ(αυδίαν) Ἀπολλωνίαν, ἱέρειαν τῆς | Νικηφόρου καὶ Πολιάδος Ἀθηνᾶς, | θυγατέρα Κλ(αυδίου) Ἀλεξάνδρου θεολόγου | καὶ Αὐρ(ηλίας) Ἀπολλωνίας Πυθοδίκου | θυγατρὸς γένους τῶν Ἐπι<λ>αϊδῶν, | ἱερασαμένην ἐνδόξως καὶ μεγαλο|πρεπῶς διετεῖ χρόνῳ καὶ τῇ ἑξῆς | διετίᾳ εὐσεβῶς πᾶσαν θρησκείαν | ἐκτελέσασαν τῇ θεῷ, δεξιωθεῖσαν | τρὶς ἐντείμως ὑπὸ θεοῦ Ἀντωνίνου, | ἀγωνοθετήσασαν τοῦ σεμνοτάτου | τῶν Νεικηφο<ρ>είων ἀγῶνος. Edition used M. Fraenkel (ed.), Die Inschriften von Pergamon, II: römische Zeit, Berlin 1890-1895. Bibliography C. Begass, Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie in der griechisch-römischen Welt vom Hellenismus bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2025. P. Siekierka, K. Stebnicka, A. Wolicki (eds.), Women and the Polis: Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women in the Greek Cities from the Late Classical to the Roman Period I, Berlin – Boston 2021. O. Ventroux, La place des femmes dans la vie publique de Pergame sous le Haut Empire. Essai de synthèse, Dialogues d'histoire ancienne Supplement 18, 2019, 117–137. R. Cagnat et al. (eds.), Inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes IV, Paris 1927. (=IGR IV) W. Dittenberger (ed.), Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae, Leipzig 1903-1905. (=OGIS) Location The location of the interview Pergamon Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource I.Pergamon II.525: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Aurelia Claudia Apollonia Type The nature or genre of the resource honorary inscription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource age of Caracalla agonothetes agonothetis Athena Polias Aurelia Claudia Apollonia Claudius Alexandros Epilaidai Athena Nikephoros Nikephoria Pergamon priestess Pythodikes theologos