Ephebic list
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source date: CE 128-138
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Bibliography

[...], F.1, with comments by M.N.Tod, whence [...], 1951.245; discussed, [...], 65, note 1, whence [...] 40.1602; mentioned [...], 103.

ἐφ’ ἱερέως Ἀπόλλωνος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Ὀλυμπίου τὸ β [...] ἀκαδημεαρχ[...] Φαινιανὸς [...]ου καὶ Φ[...] [...]

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: [ἔτους . . . Αὐτοκράτορ]ος κτλ. [M.N. Tod suggested ἐφ' ἰερέως κτλ or [ὑπὲρ τῆς Αὐτοκράτορ]ος Καίσα[ρος τοῦ δεῖνος διαμονῆς καὶ σωτηρίας . . .]]

Translation

When the priest of Apoll]o was Caesar [Trajan] Hadrian Augustus Olympius, for the second time: [ . . .] Akademearch [ . . . ] Phainianos [ . . .

Commentary

The text is ephebic, see below; probably not a dedication to or for the emperor, whose name is in no way distinguished from what follows, but a standard list of ephebic officials and ephebes with a dedication to Hermes and Herakles. This should begin with a date, here, no doubt, expressed by reference to the emperor. In a regnal year the figure is normally given before the name, but to restore accordingly leaves the figure 2 which follows Hadrian's name unexplained, since it is impossible to connect it exclusively with the immediately preceding Olympios; and it cannot be a regnal year with the figure in an unusual position (Hadrian's second year is CE 118/119), since Hadrian did not become Olympios until 128/9. In similar Cyrenaican texts, whatever alternative systems of dating are used (an Actian and/or a regnal year may appear), there is always also a reference to the local eponymous priest of Apollo, and it seems possible that Hadrian held this priesthood at Ptolemais, and held it twice.

Line 4: Akademiarch: The title recurs in an ephebic context at Ptolemais under Commodus P.55, but this is its earliest known appearance so far; it implies that the Ptolemaitan ephebes received some philosophical teaching. Its holders may be identical with the ephebarchs who head the list of gymnasium officials in the Augustan text P.79 and it would be possible to restore 4/5 here as ἐφήβαρχοι καὶ ἀκαδημέα/ρχοι