IG V.1.587: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Pompeia Polla

Title

IG V.1.587: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Pompeia Polla

Date

3rd cent. CE

Type

honorary inscription

Source Type

inscription

Commentary

See also Hupfloher 2000, 65; Begass 2025, 180, no. 27.

Translation

ll. 1-5:
The polis (set up the statue of) Pompeia Polla, daughter of Theoxenos, president and envoy for life of the very revered contest of the Hyakinthia…

Translation used

translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project

Text

ll. 1-5:
ἡ πόλις | Πομπηΐαν Πῶλλαν Θε|οξένου τὴν ἀρχηῖδα καὶ | θεωρὸν διὰ βίου τοῦ σεμνο|τάτου ἀγῶνος τῶν Ὑακινθί|ων…

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.

A. Hupfloher, Kulte im kaiserzeitlichen Sparta: Eine Rekonstruktion anhand der Priesterämter, Berlin 2000.

Location

Sparta

Citation

“IG V.1.587: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Pompeia Polla,” Cynisca: Documenting Women and Girls in Ancient Greek Sports, accessed December 22, 2024, https://fdz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/cynisca/items/show/163.

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