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 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. Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document 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. 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) Location The location of the interview Pergamon 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 I.Pergamon II.525: honorary inscription of the agonothetis Aurelia Claudia Apollonia 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 age of Caracalla agonothetes agonothetis Athena Polias Aurelia Claudia Apollonia Claudius Alexandros Epilaidai Athena Nikephoros Nikephoria Pergamon priestess Pythodikes theologos