I.Pergamon II.525: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Aurelia Claudia Apollonia
Title
I.Pergamon II.525: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Aurelia Claudia Apollonia
Date
age of Caracalla
Type
honorary inscription
Source Type
inscription
Commentary
Other editions include: OGIS 513; IGR IV.451; Ventroux 2019, 132, no. 19; Siekierka – Stebnicka – Wolicki 2021, 956–57, no. 881; Begass 2025, 170–71; 180, no. 23.
Translation
ll. 5-17:
(The city of Pergamon honors) Aur(elia) Cl(audia) Apollonia, priestess of Athena Nikephoros and Polias, daughter of Cl(audius) Alexandros, the theologos, and Aur(elia) Apollonia, who is a daughter of Pythodikes, daughter of the family of the Epilaidai, who has served as priestess splendidly and magnificently for two years and has fulfilled all religious worship piously for following two years, who has been greeted with the hand three times in an honorable manner by the divine Antoninus (i. e. Caracalla), who has acted as agonothetis of the most revered festival of the Nikephoria.
(The city of Pergamon honors) Aur(elia) Cl(audia) Apollonia, priestess of Athena Nikephoros and Polias, daughter of Cl(audius) Alexandros, the theologos, and Aur(elia) Apollonia, who is a daughter of Pythodikes, daughter of the family of the Epilaidai, who has served as priestess splendidly and magnificently for two years and has fulfilled all religious worship piously for following two years, who has been greeted with the hand three times in an honorable manner by the divine Antoninus (i. e. Caracalla), who has acted as agonothetis of the most revered festival of the Nikephoria.
Translation used
translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project
Text
ll. 5-17:
… ἐτείμησεν | Αὐρ(ηλίαν) Κλ(αυδίαν) Ἀπολλωνίαν, ἱέρειαν τῆς | Νικηφόρου καὶ Πολιάδος Ἀθηνᾶς, | θυγατέρα Κλ(αυδίου) Ἀλεξάνδρου θεολόγου | καὶ Αὐρ(ηλίας) Ἀπολλωνίας Πυθοδίκου | θυγατρὸς γένους τῶν Ἐπι<λ>αϊδῶν, | ἱερασαμένην ἐνδόξως καὶ μεγαλο|πρεπῶς διετεῖ χρόνῳ καὶ τῇ ἑξῆς | διετίᾳ εὐσεβῶς πᾶσαν θρησκείαν | ἐκτελέσασαν τῇ θεῷ, δεξιωθεῖσαν | τρὶς ἐντείμως ὑπὸ θεοῦ Ἀντωνίνου, | ἀγωνοθετήσασαν τοῦ σεμνοτάτου | τῶν Νεικηφο<ρ>είων ἀγῶνος.
… ἐτείμησεν | Αὐρ(ηλίαν) Κλ(αυδίαν) Ἀπολλωνίαν, ἱέρειαν τῆς | Νικηφόρου καὶ Πολιάδος Ἀθηνᾶς, | θυγατέρα Κλ(αυδίου) Ἀλεξάνδρου θεολόγου | καὶ Αὐρ(ηλίας) Ἀπολλωνίας Πυθοδίκου | θυγατρὸς γένους τῶν Ἐπι<λ>αϊδῶν, | ἱερασαμένην ἐνδόξως καὶ μεγαλο|πρεπῶς διετεῖ χρόνῳ καὶ τῇ ἑξῆς | διετίᾳ εὐσεβῶς πᾶσαν θρησκείαν | ἐκτελέσασαν τῇ θεῷ, δεξιωθεῖσαν | τρὶς ἐντείμως ὑπὸ θεοῦ Ἀντωνίνου, | ἀγωνοθετήσασαν τοῦ σεμνοτάτου | τῶν Νεικηφο<ρ>είων ἀγῶνος.
Edition used
M. Fraenkel (ed.), Die Inschriften von Pergamon, II: römische Zeit, Berlin 1890-1895.
Bibliography
C. Begass, Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie in der griechisch-römischen Welt vom Hellenismus bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2025.
P. Siekierka, K. Stebnicka, A. Wolicki (eds.), Women and the Polis: Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women in the Greek Cities from the Late Classical to the Roman Period I, Berlin – Boston 2021.
O. Ventroux, La place des femmes dans la vie publique de Pergame sous le Haut Empire. Essai de synthèse, Dialogues d'histoire ancienne Supplement 18, 2019, 117–137.
R. Cagnat et al. (eds.), Inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes IV, Paris 1927. (=IGR IV)
W. Dittenberger (ed.), Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae, Leipzig 1903-1905. (=OGIS)
P. Siekierka, K. Stebnicka, A. Wolicki (eds.), Women and the Polis: Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women in the Greek Cities from the Late Classical to the Roman Period I, Berlin – Boston 2021.
O. Ventroux, La place des femmes dans la vie publique de Pergame sous le Haut Empire. Essai de synthèse, Dialogues d'histoire ancienne Supplement 18, 2019, 117–137.
R. Cagnat et al. (eds.), Inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes IV, Paris 1927. (=IGR IV)
W. Dittenberger (ed.), Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae, Leipzig 1903-1905. (=OGIS)
Location
Pergamon
Collection
Citation
“I.Pergamon II.525: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Aurelia Claudia Apollonia,” Cynisca: Documenting Women and Girls in Ancient Greek Sports, accessed December 22, 2024, https://fdz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/cynisca/items/show/166.