New Greek Inscriptions from the Ephesus Museum
Abstract
This paper introduces 16 new Greek inscriptions derived from our epigraphic work carried out in the
Ephesus Museum at Selçuk (İzmir, Turkey). The majority of the inscriptions are from the Imperial
Period, amongst which stand out the funerary inscription of a gladiator named Pardos of Alexandria
Troas origin who is proud of winning 19 times and killed 10 times as a fighter to execute (ἀπότομος
πυγμῶν), a fragment of an imperial letter from the reign of Septimius Severus from which only the
beginning survives and the funerary stone of a θηρότροφος called Domnion. There is only one
Hellenistic inscription which is a dedication to Zeus Meilichios. Two inscriptions belong to the
Byzantine Period. One of them is an anonymous dedication inscribed on a baptistal font, whilst the
other concerns an invocation of Leo, the patrician and strategos of the Thracesian Theme.
Keywords: Ephesos Museum, Greek inscriptions, ἀπότομος πυγμή, therotrophos, Thracesian Theme.
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