Person: Publius Aelius Ailianos from Salamis (Cyprus)

Person ID: 385
Name: Publius Aelius Ailianos
Place of Origin: Salamis (Cyprus)
Date Range: 125 to 139
Honorary Citizen of:
Antiochia?
Athens (Attica)
List of Festivals:
___ in Neapolis (Italy)
___ in Nikomedeia (Bithynia)
___ in Antiochia (on the Orontes) (Syria)
___ in Smyrna (Ionia)
___ in Ephesos (Ionia)
Aktia in Nikopolis (Epeiros)
Capitolia in Rome (Italy)
ex Argous aspis in Argos (Argeia)
Hadrianeia in Athens (Attica)
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia)
Nemea in Argos (Argeia)
Olympia in Athens (Attica)
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis)
List of Events:
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis) on ( 135 to 155 )
___ in Ephesos (Ionia) on ( 125 to 139 )
___ in Smyrna (Ionia) on ( 125 to 139 )
___ in Antiochia (on the Orontes) (Syria) on ( 125 to 139 )
___ in Antiochia (on the Orontes) (Syria) on ( 125 to 139 )
___ in Antiochia (on the Orontes) (Syria) on ( 125 to 139 )
___ in Antiochia (on the Orontes) (Syria) on ( 125 to 139 )
___ in Antiochia (on the Orontes) (Syria) on ( 125 to 139 )
___ in Antiochia (on the Orontes) (Syria) on ( 125 to 139 )
___ in Nikomedeia (Bithynia) on ( 125 to 139 )
Hadrianeia in Athens (Attica) on ( 125 to 139 )
Hadrianeia in Athens (Attica) on ( 125 to 139 )
Hadrianeia in Athens (Attica) on ( 125 to 139 )
Olympia in Athens (Attica) on ( 131 to 131 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( 125 to 139 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( 125 to 139 )
ex Argous aspis in Argos (Argeia) on ( 125 to 139 )
ex Argous aspis in Argos (Argeia) on ( 125 to 139 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( 125 to 139 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( 125 to 139 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( 125 to 139 )
Aktia in Nikopolis (Epeiros) on ( 125 to 139 )
___ in Neapolis (Italy) on ( 125 to 139 )
Capitolia in Rome (Italy) on ( 118 to 136 )
List of Disciplines:
music: aulesis (pythaulesis)
List of Agonistic Titles:
periodonikes
List of References:
Bousquet, BCH 116 (1992), p. 190 = SEG 42.459
F.Delphes III.1, 547 = SEG 47.303
RPh 56 (1930), pp. 54-55
List of Prosopographies:
Farrington (2012), no. 1.169
Weir (2004), p. 125
Strasser (2001), no. 187
Sarikakis (1965), no. 1
Caldelli (1993), no. 23
Kostouros (2008), no. 165
Strasser (2021), no. 59
Stephanis (1988), no. 82
Bélis (1999), p. 232
Jacquemin (1999), no. 110
Strasser (2002), p. 109
Aspiotes (2006), 336
Comment: The place of origin is unknown - the home town's name which honours Ailianos is illegible, but right after it comes 'Kyproi': 'on Cyprus'. Ailianos also has citizenship of Athens and an unspecified Antioch, presumably 'the' Antioch, but we have left it unspecified as in the inscription, F.Delphes III.1, 547. The dating is taken from Farrington (2012), 148 note 479, based on the reference to the Olympia at Athens founded by the 'god Hadrian', which suggests Hadrian was dead and deified at the time of this inscription, i.e. post 138 A.D.; Ailianos participated in the first iteration of these, presumably in 131-2 A.D., so between victory and inscription there lays about 8-9 years, and given an estimated career length of 15 years Ailianos might have started around 125 A.D., thus Farrington. Apart from all named competitions, he also participated in 166 'talantiaious agonas'. - PK. Sarikakis (1965) mentions Publius Aelius Ailianos the Cyprian. - AW