IGII34 410 Dedication by an ephebe victor

Dedication by an ephebe victor

IG II³ 4 410 Date: 1st cent. AD

Having been victorious over all my fellow ephebes in the torch-race, / I, swift-footed Phileros, have dedicated (this) memorial to [the god].^[1]

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References:

IG II³ 4 410 (Translated text) (IG Online)

SEG 14.116 (PHI)

Agora XVIII 140

Translation by: Sjoukje M. Kamphorst

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)

Monument type: Base (altar)

Inscription type: Dedication (ephebe), Dedication (Hermes)

Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 3835)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] On the ephebic dedications of the Hellenistic and Roman periods see IG II³ 4, 357 with n. 1. The dedication is an elegiac couplet. The monument has a circular cutting in the top for the insertion of a votive, probably the torch that was the prize of the race. “The god” in this context will be Hermes, cf. Anth. Pal. 6.100. For a general discussion of the ephebate in Roman Athens see AIO Papers 12.

Added: 21 Oct 2019
Updated: 1 Jul 2021
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