CIG 2655: Catalogue of Priests of Poseidon
Modern Publication(s): CIG 2655; SIG3.1020; McCabe, Halikarnassos 2
Brief description: Catalogue of Priests of Poseidon
Attributes
Inscription Type: Catalogue
Object Type: Stele
Material: White/Grey Limestone
Original Location: Halikarnassos
Provenance: Unknown
Date: 1st c. BC?
Dimensions: H. 0.66; W. 0.49; th. 0.09-95.
Layout: 7 lines of heading, followed by two columns listing holders of the priesthood.
Writing: Inscribed
Condition: Broken at top and bottom; back preserved, roughpicked.
Decoration: None
Collection
Location: Garstang Museum, Liverpool.
Collector: Given by Samuel Winstanley to the Liverpool Royal Institution.
Date collected: Given to the Liverpool Royal Institution in 1849, but it was known as early as 1832: see Boeckh CIG 2655.
Accession or catalogue number: Garstang Museum C1135
Translation
- Aristokles (?), to transfer in writing [from the old] stele that stood near the statues of Isthmian Poseidon those who have been since the foundation priests by birth (genos) of the cult of Poseidon, established by those who brought the colony from Troizen for Poseidon and Apollo; on this stele there are the following Priests of Poseidon:
Col. A
Telamon son of Poseidon 12 years; Antidios son of Telamon, 27 (years); Hyperes son of Telamon, 9 years; Alkyoneus son of Telamon, 12 years; Telamon son of Antidios, 8 years; Anthas son of Alkyoneus, 19 years; Nesiotes son of Hyrieus, 29 years; Hipparchos son of Aithaleus, 7 years; [O]rneus son of Anthas, 17 years; [Po]lykritos son of Nesiotes, 25 years; [Phy]leus son of Hipparchos, 19 years; [An]dron son of Phyleus, 26 years; [Alth]ephos son of Hieron, 14 years; [Pose]idonios son of Aristeas, 21 years; [And]rosthenes son of Andron, 23 years; Hipparchos son of Phyleus, 4 years; Demetrios son of Dioskourides, 9 years; Philistos son of Demetrios, 17 years; [E]uandros son of Andron, 22 years; [D]emophilos son of Theodoros, 7 years; [Euk]rates son of Kratinos, 16 years; [ - - - - ], (4 or 30) years.
Col. B
Athenippos son of A(thenippos) son of Androsthenes (?)50 years; Poleites son of Androsthenes, 5 years; Euaion son of Poleites, 28 years; Poleites son of Euaion by adoption as the son of Apollonides, 27 years.
Bibliography
H. A. Ormerod, 'Greek Inscriptions in the Museum of the Liverpool Royal Institution,' Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 6 (1914), 99-108 at 106-8.
A. Wilhelm, JÖAI 11, 64-69, no. 5
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