The Women of Akmoneia

Abstract

This article is the first publication of a Greek inscription from Akmoneia in Phrygia, dated to a.d. 6/7. The monument is an honorific stele for a priestess by the name of Tatia, and was voted by a body of ‘Greek and Roman women’. As a document of collective political activity by a female corporate group, the inscription has no real parallels in either the Greek or Roman world. The monument is set in the context of the Roman mercantile presence in central Phrygia in the late Republican and early Imperial periods, and some proposals are offered concerning the identity and significance of the honouring body.

Cives Romanae. Roman women as citizens during the republic

“…Hemelrijk 2015 on Roman associations of women. For Egyptian and Greek comparanda : Gibbs 2008: 48, 127-128;Thonemann 2010. Pace Thonemann 2010, such bodies cannot have been passive : Hemelrijk 2015: 206, n. 90, 215, n. 117.…”

Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor

“…On the normalizing aspects of processions, projecting the ideal nature of the community, see Chankowski (2005). 93 I.Stratonikeia 149, 174, and 352, from the imperial period at Panamara, mention the πολείτευμα τῶν γυναικῶν, and I.Stratonikeia 666, from Lagina, mentions the πολίτευμα τῶν γυναικῶν καὶ τὰς παροίκους Thonemann (2010). discusses this in the context of decisionmaking responsibilities, whileCousin (1904a) observes that a collective group of women (ἐρανισταἰ) were among the contributors at Athens (IG II2 2354[30]).…”

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“…Connection to Roman military activity: e.g. Purcell 2005: 91–2; Thonemann 2010: 172–3. No mention of land: e.g.…”

“… 163 On this Italian diaspora in Phrygia, see more generally and most recently Thonemann 2010: 169–71; 2011: 99–101; 2013: 29–31; Avram 2016. …”