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Excavations at Sparta: the Roman stoa, 1988–91. The inscriptions1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

A. J. S. Spawforth
A. J. S. Spawforth
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Abstract

Nineteen Greek inscriptions from the recent excavations at the Roman stoa and Roman theatre at Sparta are published. They include two honorific inscriptions of imperial date, one for a previously unknown Octavia Agis, ‘descendant of the founder gods of the city Heracles and Lycurgus’, and at least four fragments from Romanperiod lists of civic magistrates. Two of these were found in situ and reveal that the proedria of the theatre, as well as the orchestra drain and east parodos, were inscribed with documents of this type.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 89 , November 1994 , pp. 433 - 441
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1994

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References

2 IG v. 1. 204 = Artemis Orthia, 355, no. 141.

3 Cartledge and Spawforth, 156–7.

4 Ibid., ch. 14.

5 Cartledge and Spawforth 163, 166. Note, too, the family P. Memmius Lysinicus and his sister Damosthenia, wife of the Athenian Tib. Claudius Novius, discussed by the author in Hornblower, S. (ed.), Greek Historiography (Oxford, 1994).Google Scholar

6 IG v, 1, 516; Ameling, W., Herodes Atticus, ii (Hildesheim, 1983), 59, no. 26.Google Scholar

7 For these Pompeii see Spawforth, A. J. S., BSA 80 (1985), 222–4.Google Scholar I am grateful to Ms Kourinou for drawing the new text to my attention per litt.