A New Epigram from Magnesia on the Maeander
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The author publishes a new inscribed statue-base discovered in 2023 during ongoing excavations at Magnesia on the Maeander. The statue-base bears an epigram in honour of a certain Mandron son of Artemidoros, who died in the course of an embassy to “King Alexander”, presumably Alexander the Great. The statue-base dates to the mid-second century AD, and the author discusses the reasons why the Magnesians might have chosen to honour such a relatively minor figure from their distant past; he suggests a possible connection with the Magnesians’ admission to Hadrian’s Panhellenion, attested in an inscription from Athens dating to the reign of Antoninus Pius.
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