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 Victresses Description An account of the resource Women who have won a contest; in practice this is the same as attested participants since the preserved sources only inform us about successful women. 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 Literary source Commentary This scholion has been attributed to the Byzantine Bishop Arethas of Patras (10th century CE) by some and to the Greek humanist Michael Souliardos (15th-16th century CE) by others: W. Larfeld, Griechische Epigraphik, München 1914, 11, leaves both options open. A.D. Rizakis, Achaïe II. La cité de Patras: épigraphie et histoire, Athens 1998, no. 267, dates the inscription to the 2nd - 4th century CE, but there is not much to go by. Translation I myself saw in Patras on the Peloponnese by the ruins of the ancient houses this inscription on the capital of a column: (This statue of) Nikegora, who won on the racetrack the footrace for maidens, my most sweet sister, I, Nikophilos, have here set up in Parian Marble. Translation used translation by Alexander Meeus for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document εἶδον ἐγὼ ἐν Πάτραις τῆς Πελοποννήσου ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐρειπίοις τῶν παλαιῶν οἰκοδομημάτων ἐπὶ κίονος κεφαλίδος ταύτην τὴν γραφήν· Νικηγόραν Νικόφιλος νικήσασαν δρόμῳ τὸν τῶν παρθένων δρόμον τῇδ’ ἀνέθηκα λίθου Παρίου, τὴν γλυκυτάτην ἀδελφήν Edition used Friedrich Spiro, ‘Ein Leser des Pausanias’, in Festschrift Johannes Vahlen zum Siebenzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet von Seinen Schülern, Berlin 1900, 129-138. 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 Scholion on Pausanias 5.16.2: victory inscription of Nikegora Type The nature or genre of the resource Scholion / inscription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10th-16th century CE (scholion); inscription undated Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anonymous contest Maiden race Nikegora Patras race victory inscription victory monument