Graf 1985, 469, I.Ph. 6: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Flavia Ammion

Graf 1985, 469, I.Ph. 6: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Flavia Ammion

ca. 80–131/32 CE

honorary inscription

inscription

Other editions include: IGR IV.1325; Pleket, Epigraphica II, 1969, 11.

See also Mantas 1995, 138, no. 6; Begass 2025, 156–58; 179, no. 11.

The phyle Teuthadeis (honored) Flavia Ammion who is also called Aristion, daughter of Moschos, high-priestess of the temple of Asia in Ephesus, prytanis, twice stephanophoros, and priestess of Massalia, agonothetis, wife of Flavius Hermokrates, because of her virtue and well-ordered lifestyle as well as chastity.

translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project

ἡ Τευθαδέων φυλὴ | Φλαουίαν Μόσχο[υ] θυγατέρα Ἄμμιον, | τὴν καλουμένην Ἀρίστιον, ἀρχιέρειαν | Ἀσίας ναοῦ τοῦ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ, πρύτανιν, στεφανηφόρον | δίς, καὶ ἱέρειαν τῆς Μασσαλίας, ἀγωνοθέτιν, τὴν | Φλαουίου Ἑρμοκράτου γυναῖκα, ἀρετῆς ἕνεκεν | καὶ τῆς περὶ τὸν βίον κοσμ[ιό]τητός τε καὶ ἁγνείας.

F. Graf, Nordionische Kulte: religionsgeschichtliche und epigraphische Untersuchungen zu den Kulten von Chios, Erythrai, Klazomenai und Phokaia, Rome 1985.

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.

H. W. Pleket (ed.), Epigraphica, II: Texts on the Social History of the Greek World, Leiden 1969.

Phokaia