Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum: 43.212B

DEDICATIONS OF CLOTHES AT TANAGRA

This inscription was carved on the same stone that contains SEG_43.212A, and it can therefore be assumed that dedications were made to the same temple - the temple of Demeter and Korē at Tanagra. For a summary of the contents of the inscription, see C. Brøns, "Textiles and Temple Inventories. Detecting an Invisible Votive Tradition in Greek Sanctuaries", pp.48-50 ( academia.edu ).   The translation is taken from "Gods and Garments: Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC", by the same author, appendix 2.1 ( Google Books ).

With Euaëthlos as archon, the high priests were Asōpokritos son of Kliōn, Mourtōn son of Kaphidotos; the recorder was Diodōrōs son of Pedagenes.

These [women] dedicated:
• Philotimā,   a boy's purple chitōn
• Dāmonikā,   a girl's Amorgine chitōn
• Phillō,   a saffron-coloured garment {krokōtos}
• Homolōis,   a purple linen chitōn
• 10 Nikasiā,   a woman's robe {soummetria}
• Philonikā,   a woman's ampechonon, white
• Philoklia,   a woman's chlanis
• Wanaxis,   a woman's chlanis
• Gorgis,   a woman's chitōn, having a border . . .
• Hermaïs   . . .
• Xennō,   a yellow chitōn with seven buttons
• Diokkō,   a child's silver garment

With Amountas as archon, the high priests were Thōrakidas son of Matrōnios 20 and Samias son of Dāmaretos.

Dedicated clothing:
• Pouthis,   a girl's chitōn, finely worked
• Eutychā,   an Amorgine
• Kallichā,   a man's
• Philotimā,   a yellow
• Dāmotimā,   a white
• Earrings,   Hiaron on behalf of Damōs
• Little erotes,   Archelaā

With Nikon as archon, the high priests were Eugiton son of Tychon and Timinas son of Phrounōnos; the recorder was Phrounōnos son of Timinas.

Dedicated clothing:
• Empedia,   a girl's chitōn geumatikos, having six sandal straps (?)
• 30 Ptōiodōra,   a yellow open garment with six buttons
• Philoxenā,   a man's worn tribōn
• Androkkō,   a woman's white mantle {chlanidiska}
• Euphania,   a yellow chitōn with six Sardian buttons
• Liousis,   a small chlamys
• Philokko,   a ragged tarantinon
• Xenokkō,   two chlanides, a white veil {tegidion}, and a linen garment with purple borders. These the priestess has.
• 40 Phousis,   a girl's chitōn with a dark border
• Dāmotimā,   a girl's short chitōn with a dark border
• Aristoklia,   a girl's cloth chitōn with a dark border, uninscribed, and a boy's chitōn, with a border
• Dāmokritā,   a linen chitōn with a purple border, a girl's chitōn with a dark border, a girl's Amorgine chitōn, a girl's tarantinon with a dark border, uninscribed
• Thiodōra,   a girl's chitōn with a dark border
• Chērippa,   a girl's chitōn with a dark border
• Hiāroklia,   a girl's Tarantine chitōn with a dark border, 50 a boy's chitōn with a purple border, uninscribed

Golden objects:
• A ring weighing one stater, a chain Pasiklia weighing one stater and four obols.
• Homolois, Timēneta earrings weighing one-half stater, round earrings weighing four obols, erotes weighing one-half stater
• The weight of all the golden objects:   3½ staters 2 obols.

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