Person

Dionysios

As second magistrate in Athens in 99/98 BC he held the office together with his brother Niketes, the first magistrate of the same issue. From Eupiridai. Son of Athenobios, the magistrate of issue 38. He and his brother are attested as boys in the Delphian Pythais in 128/127 BC. Together with their sister Philylla they have dedicated a statue of Chrysis, a priestess of Athena (IG II 2. ed. 3484). He was supervisor of the Agora in Delos in 98/97 BC (Habicht 1991, p. 11 note 15 and H. B. Mattingly, Numismatic Chronicle 157, 1997, p. 258).

Lit.: M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 929-962 / issue 67 (p. 561); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, pp. 6 and 11 (98/97 BC); Prosopographia Attica 4109; P. M. Fraser - E. Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names II Attica (1994) p. 123 s. v. Dionysios, no. 319; H. B. Mattingly, Numismatic Chronicle 157, 1997, p. 258; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 457 s. v. Dionysios (re-dating the issue 99/98 BC due to his Dionysios' presence in Delos).

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