TAM V.2.944: the agonothetis Aurelia Tatia is named in an honorary inscription of her son

Title

TAM V.2.944: the agonothetis Aurelia Tatia is named in an honorary inscription of her son

Date

2nd/3rd cent. CE

Type

honorary inscription

Source Type

inscription

Commentary

Other editions include: IGR IV.1229; I.Mus.Manisa 44.

See also Mantas 1995, 139, no. 20; Campanile 1994, 122; Begass 2025, 163; 180, no. 22.

Translation

The council and the people (set up the statue of) Lucius Aur(elius) Aristomenes, after he has served magnificently as agonothetes; he is the son of L(ucius) Aur(elius) Aristomenos and Aurelia Tatia, agonothetai and high-priests of Asia.

Translation used

translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project

Text

ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆ|μος Λούκιον Αὐρ. | Ἀριστομένη ἀγω|νοθετήσαντα με|γαλοπρεπῶς | υἱὸν Λ. Αὐρ. Ἀρισ|τομένους καὶ Αὐ|ρηλίας Τατίας | τῶν ἀγωνοθε|τῶν καὶ ἀρχιερέ|ων τῆς Ἀσίας.

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)

M. D. Campanile, I sacerdoti del Koinon d’Asia (I sec. a. C. – III sec. d. C.): Contributo allo studio della romanizzazione delle élites provinciali nell’ Oriente Greco, Pisa 1994.

H. Malay (ed.), Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum, Wien 1994.

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

Location

Thyateira

Citation

“TAM V.2.944: the agonothetis Aurelia Tatia is named in an honorary inscription of her son,” Cynisca: Documenting Women and Girls in Ancient Greek Sports, accessed December 22, 2024, https://fdz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/cynisca/items/show/165.

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