[Agora Publication] Tracy (1990b): A Fragmentary Inscription from the Athenian Agora Praising Ephebes

Tracy, Stephen V ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 59.3 3 543-547 10.2307_148302 ... 1990 ... A Fragmentary Inscription from the Athenian Agora Praising Ephebes

[Agora Image] 2008.16.0371 (84-478)

Side A of fragment inscribed on three sides. List of Ephebes. Ca. 100 B.C ... Horizontal (normal) ... List of Ephebes. Ca. 100 B.C.

[Agora Object] I 983: Marble Fragment

Large fragment of inscription. Broken top and bottom, smooth on sides. Originally there was a moulding (cavetto?) over the inscribed surface. The builders of the wall probably sliced this off to make the ... Ca. 100 B.C ... Inscribed on three faces; the inscription consists (A) of a list of ephebes, (B) and (C), accounts of contributions by officials, perhaps for some festivity in which the ephebes took part.

[Agora Object] I 6512: Ephebic Decree Fragment

Inscribed fragment. Inscribed face only preserved. Decree in honor of ephebes or some of their officers. Fifteen lines of the inscription preserved. Banded blue and white marble. Found in marble pile, ... 15 April 1952 ... Decree in honor of ephebes or some of their officers.

[Agora Object] I 4320: Honorary Base Fragment

Inscribed fragment of base. Bottom and left side preserved; a wreath on the left face. Honorary base with list of names by tribe and deme; Ephebes of the tribe Demetrias. Six lines of the inscription preserved ... 3rd. century B.C ... Honorary base with list of names by tribe and deme; Ephebes of the tribe Demetrias.

[Agora Object] I 992: Honorary Monument Fragment

Fragment from an inscription. Part of the top, with crowning moulding, and rough dressed upper surface. Monument honoring Ephebes. Hymettian marble. ADDENDA Joins to I 989 and I 958. Also belongs with ... 127/6 B.C ... Monument honoring Ephebes. Hymettian marble.

[Agora Object] I 958: Honorary Monument Fragment

Fragment from an inscription. Preserved part of the right side. Monument honoring ephebes. Twelve lines of the inscription preserved. Hymettian marble. ADDENDA Joins to I 989 and I 992. Also belongs with ... 127/6 B.C ... Monument honoring ephebes. Twelve lines of the inscription preserved.

[Agora Object] I 7581: Ephebic Honoring Decree

Complete stele, except for chip from right corner of pedimental crown and lower part of face on right. Bottom two-thirds of face worn and weathered, but a fair number of letters still visible. Tapering ... 2nd. century B.C. (?) ... Back rough-picked, sides finished with a claw chisel with a smoothed band toward the front. Ephebes of the year of Sositeles, being honored in the year of Tychandros.

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 143, p. 124

Ephebes, the Gymnasium and the Origin of the Portrait Herm. Roscher, s.v. "Propylaios". W. Deonna, Rev. Arch., XXII, 1925, pp. 66ff. Vespae, 875. Athens, N.M. 295. Stais, Εφ. Αρχ., 1891, p. 58. I.G., IV ... Agora 11 124 ... Ephebes, the Gymnasium and the Origin of the Portrait Herm

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 200, p. 181

Gigantomachy. Herakles. Gorgons. Gouge. Graces. Grave monuments. Gravestones. Herculaneum. Herm. Hermaphrodite. Hermathena. Hermeracles. Hermes. Griffin-bird. Hermes Agoraios. Groups. Gymnasia. Altar of ... Agora 11 181 ... Hermes; Patron of ephebes

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: Military Service

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Military Service After the 18-year-old was registered in his deme as a citizen and was approved by the Council, he entered military service as a young conscript (ephebe) with other members of his tribe ... “The fathers hold meetings by tribes and after taking oath elect three members of the tribe of more than 40 years of age, whom they think to be the best and most suitable to supervise the ephebes. . . . These take the ephebes and after first making a circuit of the temples then go to Piraeus and some of them garrison Munichia, others Akte” (Aristotle). When the ephebes’ military service was over, it was customary for decrees honoring them for their faithful service to be inscribed on stone, with the list of their names appended.

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 199, p. 180

Alexander. Dogs. Well. Anchialos. Antigonos Gonatas. Dolphin. Athenian New Style. Doric leaf pattern. Dress. Chalcidic League. Drove. Pautalia. Ptolemy Soter. Eagle. Pyrrhus. Ear. Collection of sculpture ... Agora 11 180 G 5:3 ... Ephebes

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 9, p. ix

Table of Contents. Preface. List of Plates. Abbreviations and Bibliography. Archaic Sculpture. Introduction. Provenance and Use. Chronology. Catalogue. Archaistic Sculpture. Definition of Terms. Archaistic ... Agora 11 ix ... Ephebes, the Gymnasium, and the Origin of Portrait Herms

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 260, p. 250

Cooks. Dionysios, tilemaker. T. Coponius Maximus. Dionysios II of Syracuse. Copy clerk. Dionysos. Corinth. Council. Croesus. Dioskorion, at Pherai. Curse tablets. Dioskouroi. Customs duty. Dioteimos, archon ... Agora 3 250 ... Ephebes

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Sources and Documents

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Sources and Documents Our understanding of the workings and history of Athenian democracy comes from a variety of sources. Most useful, perhaps, are the ancient literary texts that survive, many of which ... Over fifty such references in the ancient sources describe a full range of documents kept in the building: laws, decrees, records of lawsuits, financial accounts, lists of ephebes, sacred offerings and weights and measures.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Athenian Army

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The Athenian Army From the very beginning, the Athenians were compelled to fight for their new democracy. Their dramatic victories over the Boiotians and Chalkidians in 506 B.C. led many to attribute Athenian ... Citizens received military training during their service as ephebes from age 18 to 20: The people elect two athletic trainers and instructors for them, to teach them their drill as heavy-armed soldiers and to use the bow, javelin, and sling ... They go on in this mode of life for the first year; in the following year an assembly is held in the theater, and the ephebes give a display of drill before the people and receive a shield and spear from the state and they then serve on patrols in the country and are quartered at the guard-posts.

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 14, s. 272, p. 247

The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Earrings. The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Floors; Marble Chips. The Athenian ... Agora 14 247 ... The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Ephebes

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 24, s. 170, p. 146

The Athenian Agora 24; Late Antiquity A.D. 267-700; Index; General Index; Calenus. The Athenian Agora 24; Late Antiquity A.D. 267-700; Index; General Index; Diadochica. The Athenian Agora 24; Late Antiquity ... Agora 24 146 ... The Athenian Agora 24; Late Antiquity A.D. 267-700; Index; General Index; Ephebes