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Libri(Turkey), no.10, pp.17-27, 2024 (Scopus)
This article presents a new inscription discovered during the Nysa ad Maeandrum excavations in 2020. In this epigraphic document, Neikostrate, also known as Eutykhiane, a member of a noble family of Nysa ad Maendrum, is honoured by her hometown of Nysa for her virtue and nobility. Neikostrate, the daughter of Publius Aelius Iunius Marcianus, is mentioned as descended from archiereis and stephanephoroi. Although the inscription does not directly provide information on whether Neikostrate and the mentioned member of the family fulfilled any offices in the city, the expression of “αρχιερεων και στεφανηφορων εγγονων” which referred to sacred and eponymous offices in the inscription will provide an effective view in the evaluation of the inscription and social status of the family. Subsequently, in consideration of the fact that Nysa ad Maendrum has remarkable epigraphical data concerning elite women, the limited information related to Neikostrate’s civic position is evaluated in the context of Nysaean noble women.