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Grave Prepared by Associates of Herakles for Euphranor (154 CE) Thessalonike - Macedonia


Thessalonike (Macedonia, Greece and Macedonia — Pleiades map), 154 CE
IMaked 596 = IG X,2.1 288 = Albert Dumont, "Inscriptions de Salonique," BCH 8 (1884) 462-464 no. 2 = PHI 137470 = AGRW ID# 15431
Copenhagen Inventory info: 756


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Slab broken in eleven pieces, now lost (ca. 93 x 52 by 8 cm).

The associates (synētheis) of Herakles set this up as a memorial for Euphranor, fellow-associate, when Kotys son of Eirene was head of the gathering (archisynagōgos) and when Marcus Cassius Hermon, who is also called Demas, and Primigas, were secretaries (grammateis) and Python son of Lucilia, Thessalonian, was the supervisor (epimeletes).  Year 185, also 301, 7th day of the month of Peritios.

Translation by: Ascough



οἱ συνήθε̣[ις] τ̣οῦ Ἡρακλέ|ος Εὐφρ̣ά̣[νορ]ι̣ τῷ συνήθει | μνήμης χ̣ά̣[ριν] ἀρχισυν|α̣γ̣ωγοῦ̣ντ̣ος Κωτυος || Εἰρήνης̣, γραματεόντων(!) | Μ(άρκου) Κασσ[ί]ο̣υ Ἕ̣ρ̣μωνος | τ̣ο̣ῦ καὶ Δ̣η̣μᾶ καὶ̣ Π̣ριμιγ̣ᾶ, | ἐπ̣ιμελη̣τοῦ Πύθωνος | Λο̣υ̣κ̣ε̣ιλίας· Θεσσαλονικέος, || ἔ̣τους ἔτ̣ι τοῦ α̣τʹ μηνὸς Περι|τίο̣υ̣ ζʹ.

Item added: April 3, 2014
Item modified: September 7, 2020
ID number: 15431
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