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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
Olympia; a fragmentary plaque of Pentelic marble, possibly from an honorary monument
which is in all likelihood dated by the name of the strategos of the Achaean Koinon:
Έπί στρ[ατηγοϋ των 'Αχαιών] Μ(άρκου) Άντ[ωνίου— ].
Remarks: For this otherwise unknown strategos of the Achaean Koinon cf. also Zoumbaki,
Elis und Olympia, A 89.
33. ΓΑΙΟΣ [ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣ] ΠΕΙΣ[ΑΝΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ - - -]
7ν0 283 facsimile [1st c. A.D.].
Olympia; three fragments of a small base bearing a votive inscription for Zeus Olympios:
Δα Ό[λυμπίω] Ι χα[ριστήριον] Ι Γάιος [Αντώνιος] Ι Πεισ[ανοϋ υιός] I I 5 LO . .
... Ι [αρχ]ιερεύ[ς και γυ]Ι[μνασ]ίαρχ[ος . . . .] I .
archiereus (of the emperor cult), gymnasiarch
Remarks: Dittenberger and Purgold identify the person with a son of Callippus Pisanus (EL
299) and grandson of Alexio (EL 34) and further also with the epimeletes attested in
IvO 84 (EL 34a). This identification seems tenuous since the person bears the
praenomen Caius and not Marcus, which is common in the family of M. Antonius
Pisanus. For the person and the possibility of completing his cognomen as Leon see
also Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, A 81. His praenomen Caius implies that he is to
be connected with the clientele of C. Antonius Hybrida, uncle of M. Antonius, who
spent some years in exile in Kephallenia (cf. E. Klebs, RE 12 (1894) 2577-2582, s.v.
Antonius [19]); according to Strabo (X. 2, 13: ...εν τη Κεφαλληνία όιέτριψε και την
ολην νήσον ύπήκοον εσχεν, ώς Ιδιον κτήμα...) he possesed the whole island as a
private property.
34. Μ(ΑΡΚΟΣ) ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣ ΠΙΣΑΝΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ ΑΑΕΞΙΩΝ
[1] ΙνΟ 426 facsimile [first half 1st e. A.D.].
Olympia; a base for a statue dedicated to Zeus by the person in honour of his benefactor C.
Iulius Laco. Alexio was an archiereus of the imperial cult:
Μ(αρκος) 'Αντώνιος Πισανοϋ Ι υιός Άλεξίων ό άρχιερεύς Ι Γ(άιον) Ίούλιον Εύρυκλέους Ι
υίον Λάκωνα τον εαυτού Ι 5
εύεργέτην Διί Ι Όλυμπίψ.
[2] /ν0429 facsimile [second half of 1st e. A.D.].
Olympia; a base for a statue erected by the polis of Elis honouring the daughter of the person,
Antonia Cleodice: ...Μ(άρκου) 'Αντωνίου Άλεξίωνος και Κλαυοίας Κλεοοίκης θυγατέρα...(for
the full text see EL 22).
Remarks: He was a member of a prominent Elean family with connections beyond Eleia. In [1]
it is clear that Alexio had some personal relationship with Laco, the son of Eurycles
of Sparta (LAC 468). His wife Claudia Cleodice is honoured as euergetes by two
Messenians (see EL 117). As suggested by Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, A 99 the
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