Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agonothesia (Organization) Description An account of the resource Attestations of women as organizers of Greek athletic contests. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source Type Physical type of source inscription Commentary Other editions include: IGR IV.1254. See also TAM V.2.931 (IGR IV.1225) and TAM V.2.995, as well as Mantas 1995, 138, no. 5; Begass 2025, 160–61; 179, no. 16. Translation With good fortune. The homeland (set up the statue of) Ulpia Marcella, priestess of Artemis, high-priestess of Asia of the temples in Smyrna, three times agonothetis of the homeland, priestess for life of the Mother of the gods. Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document ἀγαθῆι τύχηι | ἡ πατρὶς Οὐλ|πίαν Μαρκέλλαν | ἱερασαμένην | τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος, | ἀρχιέρειαν τῆς Ἀ|σίας ναῶν τῶν ἐν | Σμύρνῃ, ἀγωνο|θέτιν τρὶς τῆς | πατρίδος, ἱέρει|αν διὰ βίου τῆς | Μητρὸς τῶν | θεῶν. Edition used P. Hermann (ed.), Tituli Asiae Minoris, V.2: Tituli Lydiae linguis Graeca et Latina conscripti. Regio septentrionalis ad occidentem vergens, Vienna 1989. Bibliography 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. Location The location of the interview Thyateira Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TAM V.2.996: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Ulpia Marcella Type The nature or genre of the resource honorary inscription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource after 123 CE agonothetes agonothetis Artemis Asia Mother of the gods priestess Smyrna Thyateira Ulpia Marcella