AIUK45 no. 6 Dedication commemoriating an (ephebic?) gymnasiarchy

Dedication commemoriating an (ephebic?) gymnasiarchy

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 6 Date: 1st cent. BC

Relief Gorgias son of Lykiskos, having been gymnasiarch,^[1] dedicated (this).

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References:

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 6 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 3001 (PHI)

IG II³ 4 401 (IG Online)

GIBM I 40

Translation by: Peter Liddel, Polly Low, Sjoukje M. Kamphorst

AIO Images: 1

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Dedication (gymnasiarch), Dedication (ephebic?)

Findspot: Athens (?) (BM 1816,0610.202)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] It is uncertain whether this inscription, which is part of the Elgin collection (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2), is from Athens (like most, but not all, of that collection, cf. AIUK 4.5, Appendix). The gymnasiarchy was ubiquitous in the cities of the Greek world in the Roman period; and Gorgias does not have a demotic or ethnic that would help identify his origin. If the inscription is Athenian, Gorgias might have been holder of the “adult” office, or more likely of the "ephebic" gymnasiarchy (on the distinction cf. IG II³ 4, 426). He might have been one of the foreigners who were included in the Athenian ephebate at this period (cf. IG II² 1039, with notes). On the ephebic dedications of the Hellenistic period see IG II³ 4, 357 with n. 1. Nothing substantial remains of the relief. For fuller discussion of this inscription see AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications), no. 6.

Added: 21 Oct 2019
Updated: 17 Feb 2022
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