Honours for Claudia Arata
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Second century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he

Bibliography

[...], 142; [...] LXIII.5, with Letronne, p.394; [...], 545, from all of which and from a copy made in 1819 by Fr. Pacifico da Monte Cassiano and passed to Pietro Negri, the Sardinian consul in Tripoli, [...], 5132, p. 517 whence [...], 4856; mentioned, [...], 77; republished [...], 60 (53), p. 96, pl. XI, fig. 16, whence [...] 9.58; [...], 184.

Κλαυδιαν Ἀράταν Φιλίσκω θυγατέρα φύσει δὲ Εὐφάνευς ματέρα Κλαυδίας Ὀλυμπιάδος αἰωνίω γυμνασιαρχίδος ἀρετᾶς ἕνεκα Κυραναῖοι

[^a1: at 1: ΚΛΑΙΔΙΑΝ [: the letters are truncated;] [Pacho, Beechey and Negri all reported the complete line.]]

[^a2: at 2: Εὐφανες | ΕΥΦΑΝΣΥΣ]

Translations

Claudia Arata (filia per adozione, adottiva) di Filisco, ma per natura (legittima) di Eufane, madre di Claudia Olimpiade, ginnasiarchide a vita, della sua virtù a causa, i Cirenei (onorarono - con questa statua?)

Klaudia Claudia A[rata] daughter of Philiskos, natural daughter of Euphanes, mother of Klaudia Claudia Olympia the perpetual gymnasiarch; the Cyrenaeans honoured her because of her virtue

كلوديا (كلوديا) أَ[راتا] ابنة [فيليسكوس]، ابنة طبيعية لإيفانيس، أُمًا لكلوديا ( كلوديا) أوليمبيا، مشرفة الجمنازيوم الدائمة؛ الكيرينيين (كرموها) لما تتصف به من فضيلة

Commentary

Probably recut, presumably because the monument was damaged in the Jewish War; for an originally first century date see below.

Line 1: Claudia Arata can hardly be other than a sister of Pausanias, Philiskos and Philoxenos, all natural sons of a Euphanes, adopted by a Philiskos, priests of Apollo in the Augustan period: Philiskos in 16/15 BCE (C.95), Pausanias in CE 2 (GVCyr 27, line 1; C.48, lines 11-12; cf. C.669, C.716). Olympias, adopted daughter of a Philiskos, natural daughter of a gymnasiarch whose name is lost (C.761), should be another sister.

Arata will have received citizenship from Claudius or Nero and the original inscription of this monument is likely to have been of mid first century date. The family certainly survived in the second century.Claudia Arata, priestess of Artemis in the late second or early third century (C.221), may well be a descendant - which explains the presumed reinscription.