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211. Τ(ΙΤΟΣ) ΦΛΑΟΥΙΟΣ ΠΡ[- - -]ΔΑ ΥΙΟΣ Π[- - -]
Κ. Kourouniotis, ΑΕ 1905, 253-258 facsimile [A.D. 85].
Olympia; list of alytae.
Alytarches
ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ELEIA
211-213
Remarks: It is possible to complete the name as Τ(ίτος) Φλάουιος Πρ[οξενί]δα υιός Π[ροξε-
νίδας] since the name is attested in Eleia (cf. LGPN III, 5.v.). The Roman filiation
form probably shows the person's pride in having acquired Roman citizenship, most
probably under the Flavians. Cf. Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, Φ 49.
212. Τ(ΙΤΟΣ) ΦΛΑΒΙΟΣ ΣΑΒΕΙΝΟΣ
R. Fleischer, JÖAIΑ6, 1961/63, 79-80, fig. 52 (AnnÉpigr 1965, 207; SEGll, 1967, 329) [Ist/
2nd c. A.D.].
Elis; a statue base of porous stone with a cornice decorated in three zones of relief and bearing
an honorary inscription for the person; erected by the polis of Elis and the Olympic council:
Ή τών 'Ηλείων Ι πόλις και ή Ι Όλυμπική{ι} Ι βουλή Τίτον ΦλάΙβιον Σαβεινον Ι τον νεανι-
σκάρΙχην αρετής ένεκεν.
Neaniscarches
Remarks: He has the same name as the brother of the Emperor Vespasian, who was praefectus
urbis in the year A.D. 69 and was active against the Vitellians. Cf. Zoumbaki, Elis
und Olympia, Φ ΑΑ.
213. ΦΛ(ΑΒΙΟΣ) ΣΚΡΕΙΒΩΝΙΑΝΟΣ
JvO 240 facsimile [3rd c. A.D.].
Olympia; dedication on a bronze disc:
Διί Όλυμπίω, άλυτάρχου Φλ(αβίου) Σκρειβωνιανοϋ, συνγενοϋς Ι συγκλητικών καί
ύπατικών, 'Ολυμπιάδος υνς'.
Remarks: On the other side of this disc there is the votive inscription of a victor in pentathlon,
Πόπλιος Άσκληπιάδης (JvO 241, EL 304), in the olympiad σνε' (255th, in the year
A.D. 241). The date 'Ολυμπιάδος υνς' in Scribonianus' inscription is absurd, since it
means the 456th olympiad, well outside the period of the attested Olympic games.
Dittenberger and Purgold in their commentary of IvO 240 explain it as an echo of
legends related to the foundation of the Olympic games. Another explanation could be
the mistake of the inscriber, who wrote υνς' (456) instead of σνς' (256), see Barbieri,
no. 1529 and 2018. However, this must be rejected since the whole style of the letters
and the lay out of the inscription on the disc is very diligent. M. Lämmer, "Der Diskos
des Asklepiades aus Olympia und das Marmor Parium", ZPE 1,1967,107-109 pointed
out that counting back 456 olympiads from the date of Asclepiades' victory in A.D.
241 gives us the year 1580 B.C., which coincides with the first year of the Parian
chronicle. J. Ebert, "Der olympische Diskus des Asklepiades und das Marmor
487