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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
[lst/2ndc. A.D.].
Argos, reused in the west stylobate of the late palaistra in the agora; dedication on a block of
limestone. The persons mentioned in the inscription have offered several donations to the
polis, among them statues of Sebastoi and heroes and three baths, where they "brought the
waters down from above" (translation by A.J. Spawforth-S. Walker, "The world of the
Panhellenion II. Three Dorian cities", JRS 76, 1986, 102):
[άγ]οράν καί τους εν αύτ[η] Ι [σε]βαστούς καί ήρωας Ι [καί (?)] βαλανεία τρία μετά Ι [τών
τ]έκνων Τιβ. ΚλαυδίΙ 5 [ου] Μενεκλέους καί Τι[β.] Ι [Κλ]αυδίου Αντιγόνου, το Ι[ανωθ]ε ύδωρ
καταγαγόντα. The block bears also a dedication of the 3rd c. A.D.
Remarks: The identification of two persons named Antigonus in [1] and [2] has been
established by Pierart-Thalmann, op. cit., 784. The date of the second text is based
on the paleography. Cf. also Mitsos, 104. For hydraulic works cf. P. Marchetti-K.
Kolokotsas, Le nymphée de /'agora d'Argos: Fouille, étude architecturale et
historique. Étude Péloponnésiennes XI (Paris 1995), 198-199 especially on the role
of this prominent family; M. Piérart, "Le «nymphée» de l'agora d'Argos et le
tombeau de Danaos", La lettre de Pallas 3, 1995, 8 (SEG 45, 1995, 256) argues that
hydraulic works of this scale are to be dated after the visit of Hadrian (A.D. 124/5);
for older blibliography see SEG 37, 1987, 282.
b. Tib. Claudius Menecles (ARG 92)
85. ΤΙΒ(ΕΡΙΟΣ) ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΚΑΡΟΣ ΦΛΑΟΥΙΑΝΟΣ
IG IV 595 (Mitsos, 105) [2nd/3rd e. A.D.].
Argos; limestone stele with an honorary inscription erected by the boule and demos of Argos
for Tib. Claudius Carus Flavianus:
Α βουλά καί Ι ό δαμος τών Ι Αργείων Τιβ(έριον) Ι Κλαύδιον ΚαρΙ 5 ον ΦλαουιαΙνόν αρεταςΙ ένεκα.
86. ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΚΛ(Ε)ΟΣΣ[- - -]
IG IV 549 [imperial].
Argos, Heraeum; tile.
Remarks: According to Mitsos, 106 it is to be dated in the 2nd or 3rd c. A.D.
87. [ΤΙΒΕΡΙ]ΟΣ ΚΛΑΥΔ[ΙΟΣ ΔΙ(?)]ΟΓΕΝΗΣ
W. Vollgraff, BCH27, 1903, 263, no. 6 (Mitsos, 104) [lst/2nd c. A.D.].
Argos, reused in a modern house; a limestone fragment bearing part of an extremely mutilated
honorary (?) inscription, preserving only a part of this name.
88. ΤΙΒ(ΕΡΙΟΣ) ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΣ
IG IV 606 [Iste. A.D.].
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