IGII34 418 Dedication by an ephebic polemarch and victor, 145/6 AD

Dedication by an ephebic polemarch and victor, 145/6 AD

IG II³ 4 418 Date: 145/6 AD

Apollophanes son of Euphemos,^[1] polemarch, having won the torch race, dedicated (this) to the gods in the stadium,^[2] in the trainership (paidotribountos) of Abaskantos.^[3]

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IG II³ 4 418 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 2053 (PHI)

Translation by: Chris de Lisle, Sjoukje M. Kamphorst

Monument type: Unknown

Inscription type: Dedication (ephebic polemarch), Dedication (Hermes), Dedication (Herakles)

Findspot: Athens (Near Church of St. Demetrios Katephores) (Lost)

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[1] This Apollophanes, from the deme Sphettos, was an ephebe in 145/6 AD. Other inscriptions from this cohort include a dedication by an ephebic team led by Apollophanes (IG II³ 4, 419), an honorific herm for the superintendent (IG II² 3741), another honorific inscription (IG II² 2152+3395), and two ephebic catalogues (IG II² 2052, 2054). Apollophanes was also ephebic polemarch, one of the "cadet" offices held by ephebes from the late first century AD onwards. These were versions of the major adult offices of the city: archon, general, herald, basileus, polemarch, court presidents, cf. E. Perrin-Saminadayar in S. Follet ed., L’Hellénisme d’époque Romaine (2004), 87-103, at 100. In Perrin's analysis this represents the transformation of the ephebate into an archaising image of the city, less an "institution-miroir" (as Graindor had proposed), than an "institution-mémoire". On the ephebic dedications of the Hellenistic and Roman periods see IG II³ 4, 357 with n. 1. For a general discussion of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12. [2] The gods are Herakles and Hermes, cf. IG II³ 4, 423 and 372. The first four lines of this dedication are an elegiac couplet. [3] On Abaskantos, who served as ephebic trainer (paidotribes) for thirty-four years from 136/7 to 169/70 AD, see IG II² 3737.

Added: 21 Oct 2019
Updated: 29 Mar 2024
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