SEG 62.149 Place of Epiphanes

Place of Epiphanes

SEG 62.149 Date: 1st-3rd centuries AD

ἀγαθῆι τύχῆι· τόπος Ἐπιφάνου[ς]

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SEG 62.149 (Translated text) (AIO)

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Column

Inscription type: Topos-inscription

Findspot: Roman Agora (In situ)

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[1] This ‘topos-inscription’ roughly carved on a column from the south stoa of the Roman Agora, served to assign the location to one Epiphanes, perhaps a merchant. On ‘topos-inscriptions,’ see SEG 62.144 with notes and on the Roman Agora in general, see IG II³ 4, 12 with notes.

The formula ‘with good fortune’ is probably just an invocation of good luck, like SEG 62.144, but the phrase is often associated with civic decision making and might indicate that the assignment of the location to Epiphanes had been authorised by civic authorities (such references to civic authorisation in ‘topos-inscriptions’ are rare, but see I Iasos 261, I Magnesia 239, I Miletos 208, I Smyrna 713, 715 and C. Saliou, ZPE 202, 2017, 144-45).

Added: 6 Mar 2026
Updated: 6 Mar 2026
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