AgoraXV 22 List of names, prytany Antiochis (?)

List of names, prytany Antiochis (?)

Agora XV 22 Date: ca. mid-iv BC

. . . (2)-menes son of - Euphanes son of Eu- Iasidemos son of Iasi- (5)Thorai Phormion son of Chairephanes Kallikles son of Gniph[on or -onides] Protomachos son of Chio[n or -nides] Onetor son of Mene- (10)Eroiadai Philodemos son of [Autokles?]. Uninscribed space^[1]

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Agora XV 22 (Translated text) (PHI)

SEG 24.165

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)

Monument type: Column

Inscription type: List of names (prytany?)

Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 3798)

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[1] Textual Note. AIO follows the text of Agora XV, except that we omit the tentative restoration of the deme heading Kolonai in l. 1. As Meritt and Traill themselves note, that restoration is doubtful, since at IG II³ 4, 81, 60-62, Kolonai supplied two councillors, not four. The restoration of the father of Iasidemos (4) as Iasidemos is based in turn on the fragile assumption that this was a brother of Philippos son of Iasidemos of Kolonai dedicator in ca. 370 BC at IG II³ 4, 1106, but it is less common for fathers and sons to share the same name at this period than to share name components and the patronymic of this man might have been Iasiades or Iasimachos. In other words, we lack sufficient information for the precise family relationships to be clear. The patronymic in 7 might be Gniphon or Gniphonides (see Athenian Onomasticon for the family and note that at IG II² 6214, 1, the ending of the father's name, i.e. Gniphon or Gniphonides, is not preserved). The patronymic in 8 might be Chion or Chionides. There is a degree of uncertainty about the restoration of the patronymic in 11 as Autokles, as this is based wholly on the (fragile) identification of this man with the prominent and wealthy Philodemos son of Autokles of Eroiadai (for whom see IG II³ 1, 401, l. 18, IG II³ 1, 429, l. 45, other references at Athenian Onomasticon).

This fragment of a list of names, unusually inscribed on the curved surface a column, was first published by B. D. Meritt, Hesp. 36, 1967, 226-7 no. 35 (SEG 24.165). Since the bouleutic quota of Thorai is firmly attested as 4 at this period (e.g. by IG II³ 4, 81, ll. 29-33) and of Eroiadai as 1 (e.g. IG II³ 4, 81, ll. 65-66), it can be identified as most likely from a list of the Council prytany of Antiochis. In the absence of firm prosopographical dates, the date of ca. mid-iv BC ascribed to this inscription in Agora XV can only be approximate, though the general period tends to be confirmed by the appearance of Kydimachos, the apparent brother? of Kallikles son of Gniphon (or possibly Gniphonides, see Textual Note) of Thorai on the iv BC funerary monument, with epigram, IG II² 6214. It seems from the uninscribed space at the bottom that we possess the end of the inscription, but since Antiochis was the tenth and final tribe in the official order at this period, it cannot be ruled out that the councillors of other tribes (possibly all 9) were inscribed elsewhere on the column or the monumental complex of which it formed part. On dedications by Council prytanies at this period see IG I³ 515, with notes. On dedications by the whole Council, AIO 2776.

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