List of priestesses ?of Hera
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source date: First century A.D
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[...] Μνασὼι [...] Ἀναξὼι [...] Μεγὼι Τι[...] Ἀράτα [...] Κριτολᾶ Διονυσίω Κρατέα Ἀρ[...] Ἀλυπὼ Λυσι[...] Καλλιβώλα Ι[...] Θευπρόπα Η[...] Αἴσχρα Αὐτο[...] Ἱππονείκα Ζευξιμάχω Τιμαρέτα Ἑφόρω Νεικίππα Ἀριστάρχω Ὁλυνπιὰς Κλεάρχω Ζευξὼ θευχρήστω Καλλιβώλα Δαμοφάνευς [...]

Apparatus

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Translation

. . . ], Mnaso [daughter of -], Anaxo [daughter of -], Mego daughter of Ti[- . . ], Arata [daughter of -], Kritola daughter of Di[onysios], Mnatea daughter of Ar[- . . ], Alypo daughter of Lusi[- . . ], Kallibola daughter of I[- . . ], Theupropa daughter of E[- . . ], Aischra daughter of Auto[- . . ], Hipponika daughter of Zeu]ximachos], Timareta [daughter of Ephoros], Neikippa daughter of A[ristarchos], Olynpias daughter of Kl[earchos], Zeuxo daughter of The[uchrestos], Kallibola daughter of Damophane.s

Commentary

Re-used in the upper cornice of the podium of the statue base in the Temple of Zeus.

The different hands suggest that the list is a running record of Priestesses who perhaps changed annually. For other lists of priestesses (of Hera), see C.103, C.130, C.142

Lines 8-16 repeat C.103, lines 3-11, although reversing the order of lines 10 and 11 there. C.103 gives a list of priestesses of Hera; its final entry is dated in CE 61 and Pesce, assuming that there was a new priestess each year and that the entries are complete and consecutive in each list, argued that the first entry here must therefore be of CE 24. The argument is attractive but by no means certain since in several of the lists of priests of Apollo it can be shown that in some years the appropriate name was not added although there is nothing on the stone to show that its entries are not consecutive. See further Laronde, op.cit.