The roots of classical Greek public honorary display, often apparently secular in tone, can be found in much older forms of dedicatory display with their more explicit religious emphasis. As an example, I consider women and girls in archaic and fifth-century dedicatory epigrams and monuments: whether as dedicators or as dedicators’ family members mentioned epigraphically and/or depicted iconographically, these females are often presented and praised as religious functionaries. Female dedicators stretch from Nikandra (CEG 403, Delos, ca. 650; image and text may allude to her holding a priestly office laid down when she married) to the priestess Lusistratê (CEG 317, Athens, ca. 450; apparently honorary crowns for her service to the goddesses)...