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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
monuments see H. Philipp - W. Koenigs, "Zu den Basen des L. Mummius in
Olympia", MDAI (A) 94, 1979, 193-216. For further dedications of Mummius at
Olympia see Paus. V. 10, 5; 24, 4 and 8. In the light of the text of Pausanias, Y.Z.
Tzifopoulos, GRBS 34, 1993, 93-100 (AnnÉpigr 1993, 1416) discusses the honorary
statues erected in Olympia for Mummius and his legati. While the Periegete refers
to the dedications of Mummius in Olympia, he doesn't mention the statues erected
in his honour. Tzifopoulos believes that Pausanias passes over these statues in
silence because of Mummius' destruction of Corinth, which caused a negative
attitude towards him. Pausanias' comment that the dedication of Mummius at
Olympia was the first one of a Roman in a Greek sanctuary has been regarded by
modern scholars as false, since such dedications are attested in Delos and Delphi (M.
Guarducci, "La dedica di L. Mummio a Tegea", BullComm 64, 1936, 41-49; id., "Le
offerte dei conquistatori romani ai santuari della Grecia", RendPontAcc 13, 1937,
41-78; E. S. Gruen, The Hellenistic world and the coming of Rome [Berkeley 1984]
166-172; Ch. Habicht, Pausanias und seine «Beschreibung Griechenlands» [München
1985] 98 f). Tzifopoulos points out that Pausanias refers only to the statue of Zeus
dedicated by Mummius at Olympia, which is described as ανάθημα. It was indeed the
first dedication of a statue to a god, while Mummius himself and other Romans
before him had dedicated other objects, like shields, wreaths, self-portraits etc. On
the dedication of Mummius see also W. Kendrick-Pritchett, Pausanias periegetes, in:
ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΣ. Monographs on ancient Greek history and archaeology, vol. 6
(Amsterdam 1998)80-81.
Dittenberger and Purgold had originally dated the group of statues for Mummius and
the ten legates in the Augustan age. Later they put it after the middle of the 1st c.
A.D. because of the way the base was made. Since a dedication of such a group at
that time would have had no meaning, he concludes that there was a rearrangement
of the statues on a new base ( col. 800 [col. 443 no. 320-324]).
About the senator and consul Mummius see F. MUnzer, REXVl 1 (1933), Nachtrag
7a, 1195-1206, s.v. Mummius; Broughton, Magistrates I, 452; 454; 465-6; 470; 474-
5. Add.; Ill, 146; Sarikakis,Άρχοντες A', 189; L. Pietilà-Castrén, "Some aspects of
the life of Lucius Mummius Achaicus", Arctos 12, 1978, 115-123; D. Knoepfler, "L.
Mummius Achaicus et les cités du golfe euboique: à propos d' une nouvelle
inscription d'Eretrie", M/748, 1991, 252-280; W. Kierdorf, Der neue Pauly 8, 466
[I 3] s.v. Mummius.
*285. [- - -] ΜΟΜΜΙΟΣ ΓΑΪΟΥ Υ[ΙΟΣ ΑΧΑΪΚΟΣ]
IvO 331 facsimile [1st c. A.D., perhaps Augustan].
Olympia; four fragments of a limestone statue base erected by the polis of Elis for the person:
Ή πόλις ή τ[ών Ηλείων — ] ΜόμΙμιον Γαΐου υΙ[ίόν Άχαϊκόν,] πρεσβευτήν τον ατής [εύεργέτην],
Διί Όλυμπίω.
legatus
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