TAM V.2.963: honorary inscription of agonothetis Iulia Iuliane

TAM V.2.963: honorary inscription of agonothetis Iulia Iuliane

under Antoninus Pius/Marcus Aurelius (between 138 and 180 CE)

honorary inscription

inscription

See also Mantas 1995, 139, no. 24; Begass 2025, 179, no. 15.

With good fortune. The council and the people honoured Iulia Iuliane – daughter of C(aius) Iulius Celsianus, the strategos, agoranomos, magister equitum, dekaprotos, triteutes –, priestess of the Mother of the gods for life, who has performed the agonothesia magnificently and with great munificence.

translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project

ἀγαθῆι τύχηι. | ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν Ἰ(ουλίαν) Ἰου|λιανήν, θυγατέρα Γ. Ἰουλίου Κελσιανοῦ | στρατηγοῦ, ἀγορανόμου, ἱππάρχου, δεκα̣|πρώτου, τριτευτοῦ, ἱέρειαν τῆς Μη|τρὸς τῶν θεῶν διὰ βίου, ἀγωνοθετήσα|σαν λανπρῶς καὶ πολυδαπάνως.

P. Hermann (ed.), Tituli Asiae Minoris, V.2: Tituli Lydiae linguis Graeca et Latina conscripti. Regio septentrionalis ad occidentem vergens, Vienna 1989.

C. Begass, Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie in der griechisch-römischen Welt vom Hellenismus bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2025.

K. Mantas, Women and Athletics in the Roman East, Nikephoros 8, 1995, 125–144.

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