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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ELEIA
37; III, 145-146; K.-L. Elvers, Der neue PaulyS, 427 [I 9].
A game called Muceia, mentioned in the Olympian inscription and the text of
Cic, Verr. II. 21, 51, was held in Pergamon, where a fragmentary letter of Scaevola
addressed to the boule and demos has been found, in which he expressed his gratitude
for the honour, cf. OGIS 439.
*284. ΛΕΥΚΙΟΣ ΜΟΜΜΙΟΣ ΛΕΥΚΙΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ
[1] 7v052 facsimile [ca. 138 B.C.].
Olympia; arbitration between Sparta and Messene about the area of Dentheliatis. In the
inscription he is attested as Λεύκιος Μόμμιος.
[2] 7v0278 facsimile [after 146 B.C.].
Olympia; base of an equestrian statue dedicated by Mummius: Λεύκιος Μόμμιος Λευκίου
υιός, στρατηγός ύπατος Τωμαίων, Διί Όλυμπίω.
[3] ΙνΟ 279 facsimile [Augustan (?)].
Olympia; on another side of [2]. He is attested here as Λεύκιος Μόμμιος Λευκίου υιός, στρατηγός
ύπατος Τωμαίων, Διί Όλυμπίω.
[4] 7νΟ280 facsimile [after 146 B.C.].
Olympia; base of horseman statue dedicated by Mummius: Λεύκιος Μόμμιος Λευκίου υιός.
[5] 7ν0281 facsimile [augustan (?)].
Olympia; on another side of [4]. He is attested here as Λεύκιος Μόμμιος Λευκίου υιός.
[6] ΙνΟ 319 facsimile [146 B.C.].
Olympia; upper part of a large pedestal, erected by the polis of Elis:
Ή πόλις ή των Ηλείων Λεύκιον Μόμμιον Λευκίου, στρατηγόν Ι ΰπατον Τωμαίων, αρετής
ένεκεν καί ευεργεσίας, ης έχων Ι διατελεί εις τε αυτήν καί τους άλλους "Ελληνας.
[7] ΙνΟ 320 facsimile and col. 800 (col. 443 no. 320-324 [after middle of the 1st e. A.D. (?)].
Olympia; one of the inscriptions of a group of statues erected on large pedestal honouring L.
Mummius and the 10 legati who worked with him for the organisation of Greece after the
Roman conquest: Λεύκιος Μόμμιος ό ύπατος.
Consul of the year 146 B.C.
Senator
Remarks: Each of the bases of the two honorary monuments for Mummius bear two
inscriptions, respectively, [2]-[3] and [4]-[5], one contemporary with the erection of
the statue and the other a reproduction of its text in the Augustan period. This must
be explained as a result either of a replacement of the road in the sanctuary of
Olympia, or the erection of other monuments in front of those of Mummius. In
either case the old inscriptions must have been made invisible (cf. commentary on
IvO 279 by Dittenberger and Purgold). For discussion of the problems of these
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