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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ELEIA
Olympia; block of a large base of Parian marble that bore two statues, one erected by the
discussed person for his grandson Claudius Lucenus Saeclarus in memory of his tenure of the
office of spondophoros:
Τιβ(έριος) Κλαύδιος ΛύΙσων Κοσμόπολις Ι Κλαύδιον Αουκηνόν Ι Σαίκλαρον, τον εκ Ι
Κλαυδίας Α,ριστοΙμάντιδος τής ιδίας Ι προγόνου, σπονδοφοΙρήσαντα, Διί Όλυμπίω.
[2] 7ν0432 facsimile [A.D. 95-105].
Olympia; on the same base of [1] stood also a statue of Tib. Claudius Lyso erected by the polis
of Elis and the Olympic boule:
Ή πόλις Ήλείω[ν] καί ή Όλυμπική Ι βουλή Τι(βέριον) Κλαύδ[ιο]ν Αύσωνα κοσΙμόπολιν,
Κλαυ[δίο]υ "Αγία υίόν, πάΙσης αρετής [ένεκ]α καί τής εις αύΐτήν άδιαλείπ[του μεγαλοψυχίας.
[3] ΙνΟ 433 facsimile [end of lst/begin. of 2nd c. A.D.].
Olympia; a large block of a statue base, that bore two statues, one erected by the polis of Elis
and the Olympic boule for the person and one of his father (see [4]):
Ή πόλις Ηλείων καί ή ΌλυμπιΙκή βουλή Τιβ(έριον) Κλαύδιον Τιβ(ερίου) Κλαυδίου Ι 'Αγία
καί Γιγανίας Πώλλης υίόν ΛύΙσωνα κοσμόπολιν, ιερέα γ' Διός ΌΙ 5 λυμπίου καί άγορανόμον
καί γυμνασίαρίχον καί άλλυτάρχην καί γραμματέα, Ι τειμής καί άξιας χάριν.
[4] ΙνΟ 434 facsimile [end of lst/begin. of 2nd c. A.D.].
Olympia; a large block of a statue base, that bore two statues, one erected by the polis of
Elis and the Olympic boule for Tib. Claudius Lyso and one for his father financed by the
testament of Lyso:
Ή πόλις Ηλείων καί ή Ι Όλυμπική βουλή Τιβ(έριον) ΚλαύΙδιον Άγίαν τειμής καί άΙξίας
χάριν έκ διαθήκης Ι Τιβ(ερίου) Κλαυδίου Λύσωνος Ι τον υιού αυτού.
[5a] ΙνΟ 82 facsimile [A.D. 67].
Olympia; a list of cult personnel, where the person is attested as a spondophoros without a
Roman name as Λ[ύσων 'Αγία].
[5b] 7v0 86[A.D. 85-95].
Olympia; a list of cult personnel, where the person is attested as a theocolos without a Roman
name as Λύσων 'Αγία Π. (for the abbreviation cf. EL 82).
Spondophoros [1], [5a], theocolos [5b], ιερεύς γ' Διός Όλυμπίου (priest of Zeus),
agoranomos, gymnasiarchos, alytarches, grammateus [3]
Remarks: The word κοσμόπολις following the name of Lyso was interpreted by Dittenberger
in the first publication of the inscription (AZ36,1878,199-200) as the title of a public
function. But in the commentary of IvO 432 he believes that it was, instead, a
surname, as an "Erkennung seiner Verdienste um die Vaterstadt", i.e. a recognition
of his benefactions toward his home city, which is justified by the fact that Lyso was
one of the most important personalities of Elean political life at the end of the first
and beginning of the second c. A.D. According to L. Robert, Études anatoliennes.
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