AIUK43B no. 4 Ephebic monument

Ephebic monument

AIUK 4.3B (BM, Ephebic Monuments) no. 4 Date: ca. 163/4 AD ?

col. 1

. . . of Pallene . . . of Gargettos ? . . . son of same of Cholargos . . . son of – of Sphettos (5) . . . son of –oros of Ant(inoeis) [controller?] . . .

col. 2

[Oineis^VIII?] . . . Dio- Posidonios . . . Asklepiodotos son of Sosistratos [of -?] (10) Kekropis^IX Mystikos son of Eleusinios Aphrodisios son of Artemidoros Dionysios son of Artemidoros Dionysios son of same of Epieikidai (15) Epaphroditos son of Nephon [of -?] Hippothontis^X -tides son of Philistides [of Piraeus?] - son of –timos of –^[1]

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References:

AIUK 4.3B (BM, Ephebic Monuments) no. 4 (Translated text) (AIO) (AIUK)

IG II² 2088 (PHI)

GIBM I 47

Wilson, Ephebic Inscriptions E.213

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

AIO Images: 1

Monument type: Fragment

Inscription type: Ephebic monument

Findspot: Unknown (BM 1864,0220.101)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This fragment of the mid-2nd century AD was among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Strangford, a successor of Lord Elgin as ambassador in Constantinople in the 1820s (cf. AIUK 4.2, no. 3). It belongs to a catalogue of ephebes, the young men of the city who underwent a year of official training, a genre of inscription of which there are three other examples in the British Museum dating from the Roman imperial period (see AIUK 4.3B no. 2, 3, 5). It contains to the left (col. 1) what is probably part of the list of cadet liturgists (i.e. ephebes who contributed financially to the running costs of the ephebate; "the controller" (sophronistes, l. 6) was one of the adult ephebic officers, who is probably here substituting for an ephebe. Such substitutions were not uncommon when not enough liturgists were available among the ephebes themselves). To the right (col. 2) is part of the list of Athenian citizen ephebes. For fragments of decrees in the British Museum relating to the ephebes see AIUK 4.2 no. 16 and AIUK 4.2 no. 17. For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.3B, no. 4. For a general discussion of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12.

Added: 14 Jan 2021
Updated: 14 Jan 2021
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