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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
Olympia; a statue base of Pentelic marble erected by the Olympic council in honour of Claudia
Baebia Baebiana, daughter of the governor of the province Achaia, Claudius Demetrius:
Διί Όλυμπίω Ι Κλ(αυδίαν) Βαιβίαν Βαιβιανήν, Ι Κλ(αυδίου) Δημητρίου ανίθυπάτου της
Αχαΐας Ι και πρεσβ(ευτοϋ) Σεβ(αστοϋ) και άντιίστρατήγου καί έπανίορθωτοϋ των
έλευΐθέρων πόλεων θυίγατέρα, έ[π]ί σεμνότηίτι βίου καί σωφροσύΙνη ή Όλυμπική βουΙλή εν
ίερείας σχήματι Ι έψηφίσατο.
possibly from Nicomedia
Remarks: From the clause εν ίερείας σχήματι it is perhaps to be understood that she held the
office of the priestess of Demeter Chamyne. We know that another prominent
woman of senatorial standing, Regula, Herodes Atticus' wife, also held this cult
function.
d. Claudius Demetrius (EL 149)
117. ΚΑΑΥΔΙΑ ΚΑΕΟΔΙΚΗ
[1] JvO 223 facsimile [A.D. 41-54 ].
Olympia; a monument erected by her and commemorating the Olympic victory of her son
Callippus Pisanus:
Κλαυδία Κλεοδίκη Ι Κάλλιππον Πεισανόν, Ι τον εαυτής υίόν, νειΙκήσαντα Όλύμπια Ι κέλητι
πωλικω, Διί Ι Όλυμπίω.
[2] JvO 428 facsimile [1st c. A.D.].
Olympia; a base for a statue erected for her by two Messenians, who honour her as euergetes:
Κλαυδίαν Κλεοδίκην Ι Ήλείαν Ι Μ(αρκος) Αντώνιος Πρόκλος Ι καί Άντωνία Καλλώ Ι
Μεσσήνιοι τάν αυτών Ι εύεργέτιν Ι εκ τών ιδίων.
[3] ΙνΟ 429 facsimile [second half of 1st c. A.D.].
Olympia; a base for a statue erected by the polis of Elis and the Olympic boule for her daughter
Antonia Cleodice (text see EL 22).
Remarks: For the person, her family —one of the most prominent in Eleia in the 1st and
beginning of the 2nd c. A.D.—, the ties of the family with C. Iulius Laco and
Messene see EL 34 and Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, Κ 36 and for her family A 99.
w. Antonius Alexio (EL 34), m. Callippus Pisanus (EL 299), Antonia Cleodice (EL 22); for the
stemma of the family see Appendix, Stemma XIII.
118. ΚΑΑΥΔΙΑ ΔΑΜΟΞΕΝΑ
ΙνΟ 429 facsimile [second half of 1st c. A.D.].
Olympia; a base for a statue erected by the polis of Elis and the Olympic boule in honour of
her mother, Antonia Cleodice (text EL 22).
Remarks: For the person, her family —one of the most prominent in Eleia in the 1st and
beginning of the 2nd c. A.D.—, the ties of the family with C. Iulius Laco and
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