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C.142. List of priestesses of Hera

Description: Marble stele? (tabulis marmoris candidi)
Text: Presumably inscribed on one face.
Letters: Standard forms, perhaps first century BCE

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Agora area; recorded in 1819, 'prope castellum in via ad magnum fontem ducente' with C.140 and C.141.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1819).

Interpretive

θεὸς Τύχα ἀγαθά
Ἱάρεαι τᾶς Ἥρας
Μεγὼ ((dash)) Φιλοξένω
Δαμοκλήτα Ξούθω
5Βερενίκα Πραξιάδα
Ἀπία ((dash)) Πτολεμαίω
[Ζ]ευξίππα Βαρκαίω
Εὐρυκλήτα Ἀσκλ̣ά̣π̣ω̣
Ζευξὼ ((dash)) Φειδίμω
10Ἐπαγὼ ((dash)) Καρνήδα
[Φ]ιλυλλ̣ιὼ ((dash)) Λύσιος
Φρονίμα ((dash)) Φιλοξένω
Εἰρήνα Τελεσιστράτω
Βερνίκα ((dash)) Φιλίννα
15[Κ]αλλ̣ιβώλα̣ Κλ̣εά̣ρχω
Μνάστα ((dash)) Φιλύ[τ]α
Νικαρίστα̣ Θρασυκλεῦ[ς]
Ἀράτα ((dash)) Φιλώτα
[.. ? ..] Φιλύτα

Diplomatic

ΘΕΟΣΤΥΧΑΑΓΑΘΑ
ΙΑΡΕΑΙΤΑΣΗΡΑΣ
ΜΕΓΩ - ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΩ
ΔΑΜΟΚΛΗΤΑΞΟΥΘΩ
5ΒΕΡΕΝΙΚΑΠΡΑΞΙΑΔΑ
ΑΠΙΑ - ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΩ
[.]ΕΥΞΙΠΠΑΒΑΡΚΑΙΩ
ΕΥΡΥΚΛΗΤΑΑΣΚ....
ΖΕΥΞΩ - ΦΕΙΔΙΜΩ
10ΕΠΑΓΩ - ΚΑΡΝΗΔΑ
[.]ΙΛΥΛ.ΙΩ - ΛΥΣΙΟΣ
ΦΡΟΝΙΜΑ - ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΩ
ΕΙΡΗΝΑΤΕΛΕΣΙΣΤΡΑΤΩ
ΒΕΡΝΙΚΑ - ΦΙΛΙΝΝΑ
15[.]ΑΛ.ΙΒΩΛ.Κ.Ε.ΡΧΩ
ΜΝΑΣΤΑ - ΦΙΛΥ[.]Α
ΝΙΚΑΡΙΣΤ.ΘΡΑΣΥΚΛΕΥ[.]
ΑΡΑΤΑ - ΦΙΛΩΤΑ
[.. ? ..]ΦΙΛΥΤΑ

Apparatus

3: It is not quite clear whether the dashes printed in CIG record marks on the stone, or some kind of uncertainty
11: ΙΛΥΛΔΙΩ
15: ΑΛΔΙΒΩΛΔΚΑΕΛΡΧΩ
16: ΙΝΑΣΤΑ-ΦΙΛΥ-ΙΑ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

God. Good Fortune. Priestesses of Hera: Mego (scil. daughter) of Philoxenos; Damokleta (scil. daughter) of Xouthos; Berenika (scil. daughter) of Praxiadas; Apia (scil. daughter) of Ptolemaios; Zeuxippa (scil. daughter) of Barkaios; Eurykleta (scil. daughter) of Asklapos; Zeuxo (scil. daughter) of Pheidimos; Epagο (scil. daughter) of Karnedas; Philullio (scil. daughter) of Lysis; Phronima (scil. daughter) of Philixenos; Eirena (scil. daughter) of Telesistratos; Bernika (scil. daughter) of Philinnas; Kallibola (scil. daughter) of Klearchos; Mnasta (scil. daughter) of Philytas; Nikarista (scil. daughter) of Thrasykles; Arata (scil. daughter) of Philotas; [ . ? .] (scil. daughter) of Philytas [ . . .

Commentary

For other lists of priestesses of Hera, see C.103, C.130 and C.423, all discussed by Laronde, loc.cit.

CIG suggests that the date is Ptolemaic but prosopography suggests that it is probably first century. BCE - first century CE

Line 11: CIG suggested Μυλατώ; for this reading see LGPN, citing RPhil (1983), 185 ff.

Bibliography: Recorded in 1819 by Fr. Pacifico da Monte Cassiano and passed to Pietro Negri, the Sardinian consul in Tripoli, whence, and from the notebooks of Graberg of Hemso, CIG, Vol.III, 5143, from whichSGDI, 4847; see also Vitali, 1932, 212. Reconsidered, Laronde, 1988a , whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.835
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

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