Unknown, Honors for an Athlete, IAph2007 12.214
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Κα̣ισαρείαν τῆς Στράτωνος

, and

Straton’s Caesarea

are directly attested at Unknown, Honors for an Athlete, IAph2007 12.214. This passage was written ca. 138-169 C.E. possibly in Aphrodisias. This text was inscribed probably on a marble statue-base found near the eastern city-wall at Aphrodisias in Caria, western Asia Minor. The eight surviving lines written in the mid-2nd century recognize the public honors for T. Aelius Aurelius Menander. He was a victorious athlete who specialized in the pankration, a combat sport that combined the skills of boxing and wrestling. The impressive list of his competitions spans the eastern Mediterranean but particularly Asia Minor to Syria and Palestine, including Caesaea Maritima (line 3). This is an abbreviated version of the same victor’s list recorded at IAph2007 12.920.

·· ? ··] Προυσιάδα ἀνδρῶν πανκράτιν, Κλαυδιόπολιν Ἄνκυραν τ̣ῆς Γαλατίας, Πεσσινοῦντα, Δαμασκὸν β´, Βηρυτὸν, Τύρον, Κα̣ισαρείαν τῆς Στράτωνος, Νεάπολιν τῆς Σαμαρίας, Σκυθόπολιν, Γάζαν, Καισάρειαν Πανιάδα β´, Ἱερόπολιν, Ἀναζαρβὸν, Μοψ- (5) ουεστίαν, Τρίπολιν τῆς Συρίας, Φιλαδέλφειαν τῆς Ἀραβίας, Ζεῦγμαπρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ, Κιβύραν

[Ed. Roueché 1993 and Reynolds, Roueché, and Bodard 2007]

[... he won ] at Prusias, the men's pancration; at Claudiopolis, at Ancyra of Galatia, at Pessinus, at Damascus twice, at Beirut, at Tyre, at Straton’s Caesarea, at Neapolis of Samaria, at Scythopolis, at Gaza, at Caesarea Panias twice, at Hieropolis, at Anazarbus, at Mopsuestia, at Tripolis of Syria, at Philadelphia of Arabia, at Zeugma by the Euphrates, at Kibyra. [Trans. Reynolds, Roueché, and Bodard 2007]

Works Cited

[...] 12.214

Additional Bibliography

[...] 235-236 92

[IAph2007 1.182

IAph2007 12.920]

[Anazarbus

Ancyra of Galatia

Aphrodisias

Beirut

Caesarea Panias

Cibyra

Claudiopolis

Damascus

Gaza

Hieropolis

Mopsuestia

Neapolis of Samaria

Pessinus

Philadelphia of Arabia

Prusias

Scythopolis

Tripolis of Syria

Tyre

Zeugma by the Euphrates]

[T. Aelius Aurelius Menander]

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