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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
Cassia, whose agonostic inscription is dated in A.D. 21 (200th Olympiad) by a new
fragment (BCH 114, 1990, 746-747, fig. 59; cf. EL 108, 338 and 339). If the ιερά νίκη
and Rufus' honour are to be dated in [Όλ(υμπιάδι) σ' ], i.e. in the year A.D. 21, his
home city Smyrna could not have been neocoros yet which, according to Tacitus
(Ann. IV. 55-56), happened in A.D. 26. Further more, the gentilicium Claudius of the
person discussed here offers an indication that he acquired Roman citizenship at the
earliest under Claudius, so that it would be more sensible to date all inscriptions
where he is attested after A.D. 41. More about the person and the date of the
inscriptions see Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, *K 73 and Β 10.
For parallels for ίερονείκην άπό συνόδου of [2] see BullÉpigr 1977, 416; the word
[Σ]εβαστούς, on the stone Ζεβαστούς, according to Petzl, op. cit., p. 145 (for
parallels) does not refer to a co-reign of emperors but to the emperors in succession,
who Rufus knew personally. For τήν προς τους Σεβαστούς γνώσιν of [2] see L.
Robert, Études Anatoliennes. Recherches sur les inscriptions grecques de l'Asie
Mineure (Paris 1937, reprint Amsterdam 1970) 227-228. The phrase of [2] τυχόντα
τής δια γένους ξυστ[α]ρχίας is interpreted as a mark of honour bestowed by the
emperor, often to foreigners; the work of xystarches was to enforce discipline in a
game or all the games of a city (G. Glotz, in: Daremberg-Saglio-Pottier, Dictionaire
des antiquités grecques et romaines, vol. V, 1025-1031 [esp. 1029ff], s.v. xystos; A.
Forbes, "Ancient athletic guilds", CPh 50, 1955, esp. 247-249; L. Robert, OMS II
[Amsterdam 1969] 1120).
About ίεράν ποιείν, commemorated in [1] 1. 36 (...υπέρ τής ιεράς, ην μόνος άπ'
αιώνος ανδρών έποίησεν...) and [3], which means the end of the competition
without a victor, see comments of Dittenberger and Purgold, IvO 54, Sp. 115 and
Ebert, Nikephoros 7, 1994, 239; 10, 1997, 225-227, with more bibliography.
163. ΚΑΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΤΕΡΤΥΑΛΟΣ
[1 A] 7v0 473 facsimile [A.D. 212/3].
Olympia; a pedestal of Parian (?) marble that bore a statue erected by the polis of Elis after a
decree of the boule honouring Claudia Tyche, the daughter of the person (text EL 119 [1 A]).
[1 B] 7v0474 facsimile [A.D. 212/3].
Olympia; the lower part of a statue base. Its fragmentary inscription is completed as a
duplicate of the honorary inscription mentioned above, erected by the polis of Elis honouring
the daughter of the person discussed here.
From Kleitor
Remarks: He is otherwise unknown. His daughter Claudia Tyche held several important cult
offices of Olympia, of the Achaean Koinon and of the Arcadian Koinon. She
obtained also Elean citizenship. For his Arcadian origin cf. EL 119.
f. Claudia Tyche (EL 119), h. Aemilia Philoxena (EL 10)
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