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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ELEIA
252-255
Olympia; a base for a statue honouring him, erected by his wife Vettulena Cassia Chrysareta
after a decree of the Olympic council and the demos and boule of Elis:
[Κ(λάυδιον)] Λουκηνον Ι [Σ]αίκλαρονΙ [Βετ]ληνή ΚασΙ[σί]α Χρυσαρέτα Ι 5 [τ]ον εαυτής
άνΙδρα, ψηφίσματι Ι της Όλυμπικής Ι βουλής και του Ι δήμου και των Ι συνέδρων.
[4] ΙνΟ 440 facsimile [first half of 2nd e. A.D.].
Olympia; a base for a statue erected for his daughter, Lucena Claudia Mnasithea, by the polis
Elis and the Olympic boule:
Ή πόλις Ηλείων Ι και ή Όλυμπική Ι βουλή Λουκηνήν Ι Κλαυδίαν ΜνασιθέΙ 5 αν, Κ(λαυδίου)
Λουκηνοϋ ΣαιΙκλάρου και Βετληνής Ι Κασσίας Χρυσαρέτας Ι θυγατέρα.
Spondophoros [2], theocolos [1]
Remarks: For the person and his family see also EL 155, S. Zoumbaki, "Zu einer neuen
Inschrift aus Olympia: Die Familie der Vettuleni von Elis", ZPE 99, 1993, 227-232
(AnnÉpigr 1993, 1415; SEG 44, 1994, 389) and Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, Κ 64.
The second of the two gentilicia of the person is his original gentilicium while the first
one is the gentilicium he bore after his adoption by Claudius Lyso; for this type of
adoptive polyonymy, common in the 1st and 2nd c. A.D., see O. Salomies, Adoptive
and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman empire (Helsinki 1992) 26-30.
Adopted grandson of Tib. Claudius Lyso (EL 155), h. Vettulena Cassia Chrysareta (EL 332), f.
Lucena Claudia Mnasithea (EL 250); for the stemma of the family see Appendix, Stemma XV.
252. Λ(ΟΥΚΙΟΣ) [- - -]
ΙνΟ 99,1. 5 facsimile; cf. Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, A 22 [second half of the 2nd e. A.D.]:
Olympia; list of cult personnel.
theocolos
253. ΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ
ΙνΟ 736-738 facsimile; cf. Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, A 23 [1st c. A.D., (lettering)].
Olympia; stamps on bricks.
epimeletes
254. ΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ ΚΑΛΛΙ[ΚΡΑΤ]ΟΥΣ
ΙνΟ 95,1. 4 facsimile; cf. Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, Λ 25 [A.D. 141-145].
Olympia; list of cult personnel. His name is followed by the abbreviation N. (cf. EL 82).
theocolos
255. ΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ ΛΙΟΣ
[1] ΙνΟ 102,1. 18 facsimile [A.D. 181-185].
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