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83. ΕΕΛΛΙΟΣ ΒΑΣΣΟΣ
ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARCADIA
Γ' Διεθνές Συνέδριο Πελοποννησιακών Σπουδών (Καλαμάτα 8-15 Σεπτεμβρίου
1985); however the material from Loukou is not included in the published version of
her paper in the acts of the congress (A. Stavridis, "Επιτύμβιες στήλες από την
"Αρκαδία" in: Πρακτικά Γ Αίεθνοϋς Συνεδρίου Πελοποννησιακών Σπουδών,
Καλαμάτα 8-15 Σεπτεμβρίου 1985, Πελοποννησιακά, Παράρτημα 13, vol. II
[Athens 1987/8] 472-474).
/GV2,518 [2nd/3rd c. A.D.].
Megalopolis; a base bearing an honorary decree of the Achaean Koinon for Heracleia,
daughter of Eumelus, and the honorary inscription for her. Gellius Bassus introduced the
proposal of the decree.
Remarks: He cannot be identified with certainty with any one of the men who bear the same
84. ΓΕΛΛΙΟΣ ΚΑΡΠΟΣ
name. One of them, a helladarches in Olympia, [Λ(ούκιος)] Γέλλιος [Βάσ]σος (see
EL 221) could be dated about the same time and may be identified with him. Another
homonymous person, Manius Gellius Bassus (ARG 132), erected a statue in honour
of the corrector Achaiae Cn. Claudius Leonticus (ARG 92) in the sanctuary of
Epidauros (IG IV 1417; IG IV 2 1, 694). According to the commentary of IG IV 1417
the praenomen of the person is completed as Marcus and he is to be identified
without doubt with the one attested in the Arcadian inscription. Though it is
possible, it cannot be regarded as a certainty because one of the commonest
praenomina among Gellii was Lucius (cf. Gellii of Corinth, COR 290-295).
I. Kouskounas, "Μία εκ Θυρέας επιτύμβιος επιγραφή", Πλάτων 5, 1951, 260-265 (SEG 13,
1956, 261; cf. BullÉpigr 1954, 117; 1958,7) [3rd c. A.D.].
Thyrea; kept in the monastery Orthokostas till 1940 but it vanished during the second world
war: six fragments of a marble funerary stele of Gellius Carpus:
Γέλλιε Κάρπε χαίρε, πάντων φίλε Ι Λθηνα[1]ε εν θυρέα.κατοικών νοήματι Ι και φρ[ον]ήματι
κ[αί] νεανισκεία πολλών Ι έξ[ο]χώτερος ανδρών, έγένετο πραγματευΙ 5 τής τής θυρεατικής
χώρας· νοών και Ι φρ[ο]νώγ ει τι γένοιτο περί αυτόν άνθρώΙπινον κατεσκεύασεν οίκον
έώνιον Ι έαυτώ τε και τοις ιδίοις πάσιν ει δέ τις Ι έπεισενέγκη τών μή προσηκόντων Ι 10
[έτε]ρ[ο]ν και θή, δώσει προστείμου τοίς Ι [λογιστ]αις τής χώρας δηνάρια πεν(τακόσια).
Athenian
Remarks: Cf. mention of the inscription by Faklaris, Κυνουρία, 90, n. 275 (quoting also the
text) and 103, n. 334. Instead of [λογιστ]αις in 1. 11 it is suggested by BullÉpigr
1954, 117 [δεσπότ]αις or more possibly [μισθωτ]αις. For the word πραγματευτής,
see also E. Lane, "An unpublished inscription from Laconia", Hesperia 31, 1962,
396-398, where πραγματευταί of Iulius Eurycles are attested in Asopos in Laconia,
cf. LAC 462 [5].
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