Bean, AS 10, 1960, 78, no. 129: the agonothetis Aurelia Polyer[– –] is named in a victory inscription

Bean, AS 10, 1960, 78, no. 129: the agonothetis Aurelia Polyer[– –] is named in a victory inscription

3rd cent. CE

honorary inscription

inscription

Other editions include: SEG 19.859; I.Central Pisidia 157.

cf. another inscription of Artemisia: Bean 1960, 78, no 130 (SEG 19.860; I.Central Pisidia 158).

See also Mantas 1995, 139 Nr. 18; Begass 2025, 180, no. 28.

When the most remarkable Aurelia Polyer[– –] Artemisia was agonothetis of the pentaeteric contest Artemisia, celebrated for the first time, (this statue of) Aurelius Perikle[ides?], member of the council, winner of the pankration of the men, (was set up).

translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project

[ἀγωνοθετούσης τῆς] | ἀξιολ̣[ογωτάτης] | Αὐρη[λίας] | Πολυηρ[– – –] | Ἀρτεμεισίας | ἀγῶνα πενταετη[ρικὸν] | Ἀρτεμείσιον | ἀχθέντα τὸ αʹ | Αὐρήλιον Περικλε[ίδην(?)] | βουλευτὴν | νεικήσαντα ἀνδ[ρῶν] | πανκράτιν.

G. E. Bean, Notes and Inscriptions from Pisidia II, in: Anatolian Studies: Journal of the British Inst. of Archaeology at Ankara 10, 1960, 43–82.

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)

G.H.R. Horsley, S. Mitchell (eds.), The Inscriptions of Central Pisidia, including texts from Kremna, Ariassos, Keraia, Hyia, Panemoteichos, the Sanctuary of Apollo of the Perminoundeis, Sia, Kocaaliler, and the Döşeme Boğazı (Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien 57), Bonn 2000.(=I.Central Pisidia)

K. Mantas, Women and Athletics in the Roman East, Nikephoros 8, 1995, 125–144.

Milyas (?)