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Olympic victor and victor of several other games
From Laodicea
ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ELEIA
Remarks: His ethnikon appears in this inscription as Λαοδικεούς instead of Λαοδικεύς; about
this variation see L. Robert, Documents de Γ Asie Mineure méridionale (Genève-
Paris 1966) 17 n. 3. Robert identifies Laodicea with the town in Lycaonia and not
that of Phrygia, as Moretti, Olympionikai, 854 believes; see also L. Moretti,
"Supplemento al catalogo degli olympionikai", Klio 52, 1970, 301; id., "Nuovo
Supplemento al catalogo degli olympionikai", MGR 12, 1987, 77. Starting from the
synchronism of the Olympic games of A.D. 157 with the 6th Panhellenias and given
that Artemas' victory took place in the first Panhellenia, M. Wörrle, Chiron 22,
1992, 337-349, no. 1 dates the first celebration of that festival in September A.D. 137
in Athens {SEGA2, 1992, 389).
7. [ΑΙ]Λ(ΙΟΣ) ΚΑΛΛΙΝΕΙΚΟΣ
J. Ebert, Nikephoros 10, 1997, 217-233, esp. 218, col. 1,1. 6, facsimile (p. 219) [2nd c. A.D. (?)].
Olympia, area of the so-called "Südwestbau", in a drainage canal; a bronze plaque bearing the
names of some Olympic victors and athletes of different times: [Αΐ]λ. Καλλίνεικος πάλ(η).
Olympic victor
Remarks: Ebert, op. cit., 220, η. 4 suggests that the victors of 11.6-9 could be dated in the 2nd c. A.D.
8. ΠΟΠΛΙΟΣ ΑΙΛ(ΙΟΣ) ΑΡΜΟΝΕΙΚΟΣ
IvO 446 facsimile [reign of Hadrian (?)].
Olympia; a large marble base for a statue erected by the polis of Messene in honour of the
person:
[Άγ]αθή τύχη. Ι Πόπλιον Αϊλ(ιον) ΆρμόνειΙκον ά πόλις α ΜεσσαΙνίων ανέθηκεν, αριΙ 5 στα
πολειτευσάμεΐνον, άρετας ένεκεν Ι και εύνοιας άς έχων Ι διατελεί εις αύτάν.
Messenian
Remarks: Though the patronymic of the person is not given in the Olympian inscription, he
could be the son of one of either Aelii Aristones attested in Olympia (EL 4 and 5),
since he is most certainly identified with an Harmoneicus attested in an inscription
from Koroni (/GV 1, 1399); his father was the Messenian Aristo and his mother the
Spartan Memmia (?) Ageta. A.J.S. Spawforth, ABS A 80, 1985, 213-215, suggests,
that he is either a son or a brother of the strategos of the Achaean Koinon (EL 5).
The family could have obtained Roman citizenship during the reign of Hadrian.
9. [ΛΙ]Λ(ΙΟΣ) ΕΡΜΙΠΠΟΣ
J. Ebert, Nikephoros 10, 1997, 217-233, esp. 218,1.8-9, facsimile (p. 219) [2nd c. A.D. (?)].
Olympia, area of the so-called "Südwestbau", in a drainage canal; a bronze plaque bearing the
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