I.Selge 15: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Aurelia Xenoniane Maidate

I.Selge 15: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Aurelia Xenoniane Maidate

1st half of the 3rd cent. CE

honorary inscription

inscription

See also SEG 41.1249; Strasser 2001, 117; Begass 2025, 180, no. 24.

ll. 10–15:
[Aurelia Xenoniane Maidate] who, together with her husband, acted at short notice as agonothetis of the [.]th edition of the city’s themis contest; later she performed the agonothesia and presided over the pentaeteric and ecumenic contest Kaisareios Kesbelios [A]n[t]onios.

translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project

ll. 10–15:
ἀγωνοθετήσασαν μετὰ τοῦ ἀν|δρὸς τάχειον μὲν ἀγῶνος πολ[ει]|τικοῦ θέμιδος <․ʹ>, μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο ἀγω|νοθετεῖν καὶ προκαθέζεσθαι ἀγ[ῶ]|νος πενταετηρικοῦ οἰκουμενι|κοῦ Καισαρείου Κεσβελίου [Ἀ]ν[τ]ωνείου.

J. Nollé, F. Schindler (eds.), Die Inschriften von Selge (Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien 37), Bonn 1991.

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)

J.-Y. Strasser, Études sur les concours d’Occident, Nikephoros 14, 2001, 109–155.

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