Ι.Didyma 385 I: honorary inscription of an unknown agonothetis

Title

Ι.Didyma 385 I: honorary inscription of an unknown agonothetis

Date

2nd c. CE?

Type

honorary inscription

Source Type

inscription

Commentary

See also Mantas 1995, 139, no. 26; Begass 2025, 179, no. 17.

Translation

ll. 2–4:
… who has financed by herself the athletic contest at the Anoigmoi festival

Translation used

translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project

Text

ll. 2–4:
ἐπιτελέ[σ]ασα τὸν γυμνι|κὸν ἀγῶνα ἐν τῇ τῶν | Ἀνοιγμῶν πα|[νηγύρι] παρὰ αὑτῆς.

Edition used

A. Rehm (ed.), Didyma, II: Die Inschriften, Berlin 1958.

Bibliography

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.

Location

Didyma

Citation

“Ι.Didyma 385 I: honorary inscription of an unknown agonothetis,” Cynisca: Documenting Women and Girls in Ancient Greek Sports, accessed December 22, 2024, https://fdz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/cynisca/items/show/154.

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