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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ELEIA
19-21
Olympia; a statue base of Pentelic marble bearing an honorary inscription for the person, who
was Regilla's father. The statue belonged to the exedra of Herodes Atticus:
5 Αππιον 'Αννιον Γάλλον, Ι [τ]α[μ]ί[α]ν, σ[τρ]α[τ]η[γ]όν, [ΰ]πα[τ]ον, Ι ποντίφηκα, Τηγίλλης
πατέρα της Ήρώδου Ι [γυ]ναικό[ς], ή [π]όλι[ς] ή [τ]ώ[ν Ή]λ[είων].
quaestor, praetor, consul, pontifex
Remarks: About the person, who is a member of a senatorial family, see P.v. Rohden, RE I 2
(1894) 2278, 5. v. Annius [88]; PIR 2 A 654; G. Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand
unter den Antoninen. Prosopographische Untersuchungen zur senatorischen
Führungsschicht (Bonn 1977) 139, 303, 323, 327; cf. FOS, 83-84 (comments on no.
66); Settipani, 472-476 with stemmata.
f. Regula (EL 17). For the stemma of the family see Appendix, Stemmata XI, 1. 2. 3.
19. Λ(ΕΚΜΟΣ) ΑΝΘΕΣΤΙΟΣ ΟΕΟΓΕΝΗΣ
Ιν0 9\, 1.5 facsimile [A.D. 113-117].
Olympia; list of cult personnel. The name of the person is followed by the abbreviation Γ. (see
EL 82).
theocolos
Remarks: The Greek forms of the name Antistius/Antestius are Α,ντέστιος, Άντίστιος,
Ανθέστιος, Ανθίστιος, that could, in one interpretation, be derived from a false
etymology from the words άνθος (flower) or εστία, άντ(ί)-έστία (hearth), see B.
Meinersmann, Die lateinischen Wörter und Namen in den griechischen Papyri
(Leipzig 1927) 67-68; see also E. Klebs, RE I 2 (1894) 2545, s.v. Antestius; Mócsy,
Nomenciator, 22; id., Beiträge zur Namenstatistik, Dissertationes Pannonicae,
Seiles III, vol. 3 (Budapest 1985) 69. 80. 86. 87. 89; Solin and Salomies, 17. For the
person cf. also Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, A 59.
20. ΑΝΤΩΝΙΑ BAIBIA
7v0456 facsimile [A.D. 157 (έπ[ί] της σλδ' Όλυμπ[ι]άδος)].
Olympia; a base for a statue erected by the polis of Elis and the Olympic boule in honour of
the priestess of Demeter Chamynaia Antonia Baebia:
"Αντωνίαν ΒαιΙβίαν, Μ(άρκου) ΑντωνίΙου Σαμίππου Ι θυγατέρα τοϋ από Ι 5 Όξύλου τού κτίσανίτος
τήν πόλιν, Ι ίέρειαν γενομέΙνην της ΔήμηΙτρος έπ[ί] της σλδ' Ι Όλυμπ[ι]άδος, Ι ή
πόλις ή τών ΉΙλείων και ή ΌλυμΙπική βουλή.
Remarks: For the person, who was a member of an important Elean family (see below EL 46),
see also Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, A 11 and Σ 2.
ά. M. Antonius Samippus (EL 46); for the stemma of the family see Appendix, Stemma XII.
21. ΑΝΤΩΝΙΑ ΚΑΛΛΩ
JvO 428 facsimile [1st c. A.D.].
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