Meritt, Hesperia Suppl. 8, 1949, 215 + SEG 11-830: a victory inscription of an unknown victress from Sparta (?)

Meritt, Hesperia Suppl. 8, 1949, 215 + SEG 11-830: a victory inscription of an unknown victress from Sparta (?)

Roman imperial period

victory inscription

inscription

The restauration [νικ]άσασαν, suggested in SEG 11-830 is highly plausible and suggests that we are facing a victress in the diaulos (double-stadion) race. The name of the victress is too corrupt as Hondius also notes before offering the very tentative suggestion Πανθαλίδα (Panthalida), a name known from IG V.1.588.

The polis (has set up this statue of)
Pantaiolaios (?)
who has won at the Livia
in the diaulos.

translation by Melanie Meaker for the Cynisca project

ἁ πόλις
Πανταιολαιος (sic)
[νικ]άσασαν Λίβια
δίαυλον.

J.J.E. Hondius et al. (eds.), Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden 1923-. (=SEG)

B. D. Meritt, The Epigraphic Notes of Francis Vernon, Hesperia Suppl. 8, 1949, 213–227.

W. Kolbe (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae, V.1: Inscriptiones Laconiae et Messenia, Berlin 1913. (=IG V.1)

Sparta