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Author: Vincent Gabrielsen

CAPInv. 495: Haliastan Panathenaistan

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Rhodes
iii. Site City of Rhodes

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ἁλιαστᾶν Παναθηναιστᾶν
ii. Full name (transliterated) Haliastan Panathenaistan

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:The second element of the name probably derives from the festival held in honour of Athena (the Panathenaia), rather than from the name of the goddess: Poland 1909, 62; I.Lindos II, col. 797, though there are no compelling reasons to follow Blinkenberg's supposition (ibid.) that the Panathenaia of Attica were referred to, cf. Suppl. Epigr. Rodio 43.
Theophoric:The first element of the name derivers from the name of the god Halios, the principal deity of the Rhodian federal state: see D. Morelli, I culti in Rodi. Studi Classici e Orientali (Pisa, 1959) 15-20.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) NSER 39
Online Resources NSER 39
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorary dedication in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Rectangular base of an altar made of Lartian marble. On each side of the text are two decorative wreaths of olive-branches carved in bas-relief.
ii. Source(s) provenance The inscription is reported to have been found in the suburban zone of the city of Rhodes: A. Scrinzi, 'Iscrizioni greche inedite di Rodi (dalle schede dell'Hedenborg)', AIV 57 (1898) 251-287, no. 7.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status Philiskos, who is honoured by the association, was probably a member of foreign origin, i.e. from Antiochia.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The Haliastai Panathenaistai honoured Philiskos Antiocheus with the award of (i) an olive-branch wreath (θαλλ[οῦ̣]| στεφάν[ῳ], thall[ou] stephan[o]); (ii) εὐεργεσίᾳ, euergesia (i.e. the title euergetes); and (iii) a golden wreath (χρυσ[έῳ σ]τε[φάνῳ], chrys[eo s]te[phan]o.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The form Παναθηναισταί, Panathenaistai (instead of Παναθαναισταί, Panathenaistai IG XII, 1 161) is far from uncommon, cf. IG XII, 1 36.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The cultic and theophoric elements in the name of this body, as well as the likelihood that a foreigner was a member of it, render it certain that it was a private association.