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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARGOLIS
203. Μ. ΠΕΡΠΕΡΝΑΣ ΥΜΝΟΣ/Μ. PERPERNA HYMNUS
AD 22 B, 1967, 183, no. 2, fig. 132 β (cf. AnnÉpigr 1971, 443; SEG 25, 1971, 370; 31, 1981,
314); ILGR 89 [maybe 1st c. B.C.].
Argos, in the area of the tombs of Έθνικόν Γυμναστήριο ν; bilingual funerary inscription on a
limestone plaque including merely the name of the deceased.
Remarks: About Perpema, a name of Etruscan origin, see Schulze, 88; Solin and Salomies, 141.
Maybe he is a negotiator, as suggested by ILGR 89. Cf. a proxeny decree from
Cierium in Thessaly, IG IX 2,258,1. 7: ...Μαάρκοι Λευκίου Περπένναι Τουμαιοι...
*204. ΦΩΣΦΟΡΙΟΣ
IG IV 1608 (AnnÉpigr 1901, 453, no. 125; Groag, Reichsbeamten spätröm. Zeit, 54-55;
Feissel, T&MByz9, 1985, 288, no. 27) [379-382 A.D.].
Argos, "prope sedem fori antiqui", a plaque bearing a honorary epigram for the person. The
monument was erected by an Archelaus:
Εικόνα Φωσφορίου μεγακύδεος άνθυπάτοιο Ι Άρχέλεως Δαναοις στήσε χαριζόμενος. Ι
Ψ(ηφίσματι) Β(ουλής).
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Remarks: For the person see Groag, op. cit.; cf. also his remarks on p. 21, 67 n. 5; L. Robert,
Hellenica IV (1948) 23 and n. 5; PLRE I, 700, s.v. Phosphorius 2.
205. ΓΝ(ΑΙΟΣ) ΠΟΜΠΗΙΟΣ ΚΛΕΟΣΘΕΝΟΥΣ ΥΙΟΣ ΚΑΛΛΕΑΣ
P. Charneux, BCH 80, 1956, 610-4, no. VII, fig. 7 (SEG 16, 1959, 258c) [2nd c. A.D.].
Argos, built into a triangular pilaster of bricks; a base bearing three honorary inscriptions with
the consent of the boule and demos of Argos for the three children of Cn. Pompeius
Cleosthenes, Diodotus, Cleosthenes and Calleas, who were eisagogeis (agonistic officers):
Ή βουλή καί ο δήμος Ι ό τών Άργείων Γν(αΐον) Ι Πομπήιον ΚλεοσθέΙνους υίόν Καλλέα Ι
εισαγωγέα γενόμεΐνον επί άγωνοΙθέτου Γοργίλου του Ι Μενεκλέους.
s. Cn. Pompeius Cleosthenes (Ι) (ARG 207), b. Cn. Pompeius Diodotus (ARG 209) and Cn.
Pompeius Cleosthenes (II) (ARG 208).
206. Μ(ΑΡΚΟΣ) ΠΟΜΠΗΙ[0]Σ Χ[Α]ΡΕΙΝΟΣ
IG IV 601 (cf. Mitsos, 153) [lst/2nd c. A.D.].
Argos; the person is honoured as euergetes by the tribe Hyrnathia:
Γ Α φυλά τών ΎρΙναθίων Μ(άρκον) ΠομΙπήι[ο]ν Χ[α]ρεΙΙνον, τον εκ προΙ 5 γ[ό]νων
εύεργέΐταν.
207. ΓΝ(ΑΙΟΣ) ΠΟΝΠΗΙΟΣ ΚΛΕΟΣΘΕΝΗΣ (Ι)
[1] IG IV 609 (Mitsos, 107) [ 2nd c. A.D.].
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