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 See also IG V.1.559, as well as Mantas 1995, 137; Hupfloher 2000, 108, no. D6; Balzat 2010, 353–54; Begass 2025, 180, no. 26. Translation ll. 1–6, 13–15: Pomponia Kallistonike, daughter of Aristeos, hereditary priestess for life of the most manifest goddess Artemis Ortheia…, and of the contest of the most revered Dioskouroi… Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document ll. 1–6, 13–15: Πονπ<ω>νίαν Καλλ<ι>|στονείκην Ἀριστ[έ]|ου ἱέρειαν διὰ β̣ίου κ̣[αὶ] | διὰ γένους τῆς ἐ̣πιφ[ανε]|στάτης θεοῦ Ἀρτέμιδ[ος] | Ὀρθείας […] | καὶ τοῦ ἀγῶνο[ς] | τῶν σεμν<ο>τάτων Διοσκο̣[υ]|ρείων… Edition used W. Kolbe (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae, V.1: Inscriptiones Laconiae et Messenia, Berlin 1913. Bibliography C. Begass, Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie in der griechisch-römischen Welt vom Hellenismus bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2025. J.-S. Balzat, Prosopographie des prêtres et prêtresses des Dioscures dans la Sparte d’époque impériale, in: A. Rizakis, C. E. Lepenioti (eds.), Roman Peloponnese III: Studies on Political, Economic and Socio-Cultural History. Continuity and Innovation, Athens 2010, 341–55. A. Hupfloher, Kulte im kaiserzeitlichen Sparta: Eine Rekonstruktion anhand der Priesterämter, Berlin 2000. K. Mantas, Women and Athletics in the Roman East, Nikephoros 8, 1995, 125–144. Location The location of the interview Sparta 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 IG V.1.602: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Pomponia Kallistonike 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 early 3rd cent. CE agonothetes agonothetis Aristeos Artemis Ortheia Dioskouroi Pomponia Kallistonike priestess Sparta