A neocorate was a rank or dignity granted by the Roman Senate and the Emperor under the Empire to certain cities which had built temples to the Emperor or had established cults of members of the Imperial family. The city itself was referred to as neokoros. A temple dedicated to the emperor was also called neocorate. Starting in the 2nd century CE, the title appeared on many coins.
The Leiden Conventions or Leiden system is an established set of rules, symbols, and brackets used to indicate the condition of an epigraphic or papyrological text in a modern edition. In previous centuries of classical scholarship, scholars who published texts from inscriptions, papyri, or manuscripts used divergent conventions to indicate the condition of the text and editorial corrections or restorations. The Leiden meeting was designed to help to redress this confusion.
The Inscriptiones Graecae (IG), Latin for Greek inscriptions, is an academic project originally begun by the Prussian Academy of Science, and today continued by its successor organisation, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Its aim is to collect and publish all known ancient inscriptions from the mainland and islands of Greece.
Gazoros or Gazorus was a town mentioned by Ptolemy to be in the region of Edonis or Odomantike and also by inscriptions of Hellenistic and Roman times. Later in the 4th century BC, it was annexed to the Macedonian kingdom and made a polis under Phillip II of Macedon or the Antigonids. Artemis Gazoria or Gazoreitis was worshiped all over the region till Roman times. In the imperial times, according to epigraphic evidences, Gazoros was a member of a federation of five cities ("Pentapolis") that had its seat in the ancient city of Sirra.
The Greek-language inscriptions and epigraphy are a major source for understanding of the society, language and history of ancient Greece and other Greek-speaking or Greek-controlled areas. Greek inscriptions may occur on stone slabs, pottery ostraca, ornaments, and range from simple names to full texts.
Poseidippus or Posidippus is a Greek theophoric name. It may refer to a number of individuals from classical antiquity, including:
Nikaia was a settlement of the koinon of the Bylliones, an Illyrian tribe that through contact with their Ancient Greek neighbours became bilingual. The tribe was found in southern Illyria.
The pig stele of Edessa is a Roman-era illustrated Greek funerary stele from Edessa, Macedonia. The relief depicts a man on a four-wheeled chariot with four horses and two pigs, one under the wheel and one under the horse hooves. The inscription is dated to the second or third century CE and reads:
The Phiale of Megara is an ancient Greek silver phiale, a libation vessel, found in a tomb in Upper Macedonia near present-day Kozani. It bears a one-line inscription in Doric Greek, which reads: "Αθαναιας : ιαρα : τας Μhεγαρο̅ι".
Michael Edward Stone is a professor emeritus of Armenian Studies and of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a published poet.
Prof. Christopher A. Rollston is a scholar of the ancient Near East, specializing in Hebrew Bible, Greek New Testament, Old Testament Apocrypha, Northwest Semitic literature, epigraphy and paleography.
Qarfa is a village in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Izra' District of the Daraa Governorate. Nearby localities include al-Shaykh Maskin to the northwest, Izra to the northeast, Maliha al-Atash to the east, Namir to the southeast, Khirbet Ghazaleh to the south and Abtaa to the southwest. In the 2004 census by the Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Hirak had a population of 20,760.
The Epigram of Amazaspos is a funerary epigram written in Ancient Greek on an inscription found in Rome. It memorialises the death of the Pharnavazid royal prince Amazaspos, brother of kings Mihrdat I and Rhadamistus, son of king Pharasmanes I of Iberia, who died at Nisibis while accompanying the emperor Trajan on his Parthian expedition during the Roman–Parthian Wars.
The Kandahar Sophytos Inscription is an inscription in Greek made by Sophytos, son of Naratos, in the 2nd century BCE, in the city of Kandahar. The inscription is written on a square limestone plaque, which was probably part of a wall. The inscription, although bought on a market, is thought to have come from Old Kandahar, the supposed ancient Alexandria in Arachosia.
Antigonus, son of Menophilus was a Seleucid official (nauarchos). He served under king Alexander, in the mid-2nd century BC. He is known from an inscription found in the city of Miletus.
IvO 240/241 is the catalogue number of a bronze discus awarded to Publius Asklepiades after his victory in the ancient Olympic Games in the year 241 CE. The inscription on the discus reads that he won the pentathlon in the 456th Olympiad and that this object be dedicated to the Zeus. The original currently resides in the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece, but a replica is on display in the Glyptothek Museum in Munich, Germany.
Abbreviations for Classical authors and texts are abbreviations used to refer to ancient authors and their works that are used in academic publications in the field of Classics. Two systems are in common use, based on the abbreviations lists of standard reference works:
Seleukos, son of Bithys, was a Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus and admiral in the second century BC.
Corseae or Korsiai was a port of ancient Boeotia on the Corinthian Gulf. It appears from Pliny the Elder that this town was distinct from Corseia, also in the western part of Boeotia, and that it was distinguished from the other by the name of Thebae Corsicae, that is the Corseae near or belonging to Thebes.
Isar is an archaeological site located in Marvinci, a village situated in the south-eastern areas of North Macedonia. It is only 18.6 kilometres north of the town of Gevgelija. According to Macedonian archaeologists the site has roughly well over 200 graves and is only a few kilometres from the town of Valandovo. Archaeological digging and examining was conducted between 1977 and 1986. The archaeological finds were transported to the Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia. The archaeological findings there are dated from the period between the Bronze Age to the late Antiquity. A discovered artifacts from the 3rd century BC reveal that the name of the local settlement was Idomene. The archeological site contains remnants of a temple and stadium, designed according to the ancient Roman style.
