Tenos, inscription built into a house at Chora (IG XII 5, 903)

Prosopographic and onomastic studies in the Aegean Islands

Sophia Zoumbaki

Research coordinator
Sophia ZoumbakiSection of Greek and Roman Antiquity Department Head, Research Director

Within the framework of this project, Roman onomastics and the diffusion of Roman citizenship in the Cyclades (excluding the exceptional case of Delos) have been studied. In the course of this study, new unpublished inscriptions of the Roman period have been identified, several previously published inscriptions in older IG volumes have been relocated and examined, and particular emphasis has been placed on the topography of the islands. All of this has yielded new prosopographical data and, by extension, has contributed to expanding our knowledge of society, the economy, and the broader history of the Cyclades during the Roman period.

 

  • L. Mendoni, S. Zoumbaki, Roman names in the Cyclades I, Μeletemata 56 (Athens 2008).
  • L. Mendoni, S. Zoumbaki, Roman names in the Cyclades ΙΙ, Μeletemata 84 (Athens 2023) (with contributions by P. Doukellis and E. Sverkos).
  • S. Zoumbaki, “Ο δυναμισμός των γυναικών των Κυκλάδων μέσα στους περιορισμούς ενός ανδροκρατούμενου κόσμου / The dynamism of Cycladic women within the constraints of a male-dominated world”, in P. Iossif and D. Athanassoulis (eds.), Kykladitisses. Untold Stories of Women in the Cyclades, Athens: Museum of Cycladic Art (Athens 2024)
  • S. Zoumbaki, “Epigraphy as a mirror of social and economic change in a period of transition: the microcosms of the Cyclades”, in S. España-Chamorro, Gian Luca Gregori (eds.), Tra la tarda republica e l’età augustea. Economia, politica e religione nei loro riflessi epigrafici (Roma 2025) 353-378.
  • S. Zoumbaki, “New Epigraphic Evidence from Melos and New Insights in the Economic Affairs of two Melian Ladies in Puteoli on the Basis of the Sulpicii Archive”, ZPE 222 (2022) 259-271.

  • S. Zoumbaki, “Navigating in the Cyclades of the Late Hellenistic and Roman period”, lecture at the 3rd Floor Seminars, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, 15/12/2022.
Research coordinator
Sophia ZoumbakiSection of Greek and Roman Antiquity Department Head, Research Director
Information & Contact
Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity Department Head, Research Director

Main page image: Tenos, inscription built into a house at Chora (IG XII 5, 903)