The Samians on Ikaria: communities, power, and island networks in the Hellenistic and Roman Aegean

Figures & data

Figure 1. Map of Ikaria, Samos, and the surrounding islands. Drawn by the authors.

Figure 2. View from Mt Kerkis, west Samos. The Fournoi archipelago is visible in the foreground, and the tip of Ikaria is just visible to the right side of the photograph. Photograph by the authors.

Table 1. The inscriptions of Ikaria as published in Inscriptiones Graecae. Where the information is known, type of inscription, date, and findspot are indicated.

IG XII 6, 2	Date	Type	Findspot
1217–1218	Second century BCE	Decrees	Oine
1219–1223	First/second century CE	Honorifics	Oine
1224	Fourth century BCE	Decree	Oine
1225–1226	Third–first century BCE	Catalogue of names	Oine
1227–1228	First century CE	Ephebe lists	Oine
1229	Second century CE	Dedication	Oine
1230–1259	Fifth century BCE – fourth century CE	Funerary	Oine
1260–1262	Third century BCE – second century CE	Varia	Oine
1263–1275	Fifth/sixth century CE	Christian funerary	Oine
1276–1280	Roman?	Uncertain	Oine
1281–1284	Fourth – sixth century CE	Funerary	Tauropolion
1285	First century BCE	Honorific	Drakano
1286–1287	Second century BCE	Funerary	Drakano
1288–1292	Fifth century BCE – first century CE	Funerary	Therma

Table 2. Inscriptions from Oine, Ikaria, as discussed in this article. These inscriptions appear in full in the Appendix.

IG XII 6, 2	Date	Summary	Type	Residency formula
1217	First half second century BCE	Honorary Decree of the Samians in Oine for Eparchides	Stele	Σάμ[ιοι οἱ οἰκοῦντες Οἴνην]
1218	After 133 BCE	Honorary Decree of the Samians in Oine for Timesileos	Stele	Σαμίοις τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν Οἴνην
1219	27 BCE–CE 14	Honorary inscription for the emperor Augustus	Column	Σαμίων ἀποίκων Ἰκαρίας
1220	CE 96–98	Honorary inscription for the emperor Nerva	Base	Σάμιοι οἱ κατοικοῦν– τες Εἰκαρίαν
1221	After CE 117	Honorary inscription for the emperor Hadrian	Base	Σάμιοι οἱ ἐν Εἰκαρίᾳ κατοικοῦντες
1222	CE 138–161	Honorary inscription for the emperor Antoninus Pius	Base	Σ̣άμιοι οἱ κατ̣[οικοῦντες Εἰκαρίαν]
1223	CE 138–161	Honorary inscription for the emperor Antoninus Pius	Column	Σάμιοι οἱ ἐν Ἰκαρίᾳ κατοικοῦντες

Figure 3. Map showing the distribution of epigraphic uses of residency formulae per place in the Aegean and western Anatolia. Drawn by the authors.

1 = Acıpayam Plain: Karahüyük Bazar; 2 = Akmonia (Ahat); 3 = Amorgos; 4 = Amphipolis; 5 = Apameia (Dinar); 6 = Athens; 7 = Attica; 8 = Charadros (Yakacik); 9 = Daldis (Nardi Kalesi); 10 = Delos; 11 = Delphi; 12 = Didyma; 13 = Dorylaion: Ilkburun; 14 = Eleusis; 15 = Ephesus; 16 = Epidauros; 17 = Eumeneia (Işıklı); 18 = Ikaria; 19 = Kabyle (Augusta Traiana/Stara Zagora); 20 = Kalymnos; 21 = Karpathos; 22 = Keramos; 23 = Klazomenia; 24 = Knidos; 25 = Konana (Gönen); 26 = Kos; 27 = Kozluca and Boğaziçi; 28 = Lagina; 29 = Lepsia; 30 = Leros; 31 = Lindos; 32 = Magnesia Mai; 33 = Magnesia on Sipylos (Manisa); 34 = Maionia (Gökçeören-Menye); 35 = Midas Kale (Yazılı Kaya); 36 = Miletos; 37 = Minoa; 38 = Mylasa; 39 = Nysa; 40 = Oine; 41 = Ortaca; 42 = Patmos; 43 = Pautalia (Kyustendil) – Scaptopara (Blagoevgrad); 44 = Pellene; 45 = Pergamon; 46 = Perge; 47 = Perinthos-Herakleia (Marmara Ereğlisi); 48 = Philadelphia (Ala≈üehir); 49 (outside of map frame) = Philai Isl.; 50 = Physkos; 51 = Prusa ad Olympum (Bursa); 52 = Prusias ad Hypium (Üskübü); 53 = Prymnessos (Sülün); 54 = Rhamnous; 55 (outside of map frame) = Salamis: Sinda (Drosistis); 56 = Samos; 57 = Sardis; 58 (outside of map frame) = Sarıçam; 59 = Selymbria (Thrace); 60 = Silandos (Karaselendi); 61 = Sosandra? (Gölmarmara); 62 = Sparta; 63 (outside of map frame) = Syr., Apamene; 64 = Syros; 65 = Telmessos (Fethiye-Makri); 66 = Tenos; 67 = Thyateira (Akhisar); 68 = Thyssanous (Ortaca); 69 = Troy.

Table 3. Count of inscriptions using the ‘οἱ κατοικοῦντες’ residency formula, indicating in each instance which (if any) named groups are specified on the inscription.

Group in translation	Count (147 total)
No group specified	72
Athenians	12
Romans	11
Athenians, Romans, and all Hellenes	10
Athenians, Romans, and all foreigners	9
Samians	8
All	6
Lerians	6
Athenians and Romans	2
The rest	2
Aenians	1
Athenians, Romans, and all foreigners (or Greeks – reconstructed)	1
Athenians, Romans, and the remaining Hellenes	1
Milesians and citizens	1
Pergamenoi	1
Romans and Thracians	1
Soldiers and guards	1
Soldiers and citizens	1
The citizens	1