Νέες ἐπιγραφὲς ἀπὸ τὴν Λέσβο

Abstract

The present study publishes for the first time eight inscriptions, seven of which are kept in the Archaeological Museum of Mytilene, while one was found built into the Church of St. Demetrios in Moria. Furthermore, two inscriptions are republished with new readings: one built into a private house in the area of St. Symeon in Mytilene and one in the chapel of Christ at Mistegna. The inscriptions date from the 2nd–1st century BC to the 2nd–3rd century AD, and include honorific, votive and funerary texts. Among the most notable are an honorific decree tentatively attributed to the corpus of the so-called Potamoneion inscriptions, honoring the benefactor Potamon of Mytilene; an honorific dedication to Pythodikos, son of Damon; a dedication fragment mentioning the toponym Doryknama, known from a single previously published metrical inscription; and two funerary stelae recording names hitherto unattested epigraphically on Lesbos.