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442 XL APAMEIA.
M. Paris, the Argyrotamias superintended the debts due to the city,
like the curatores kalendarii in the west; and, though there is not
sufficient evidence to prove this theory, it has probability in its
favour.
(4) Panegyeiarch is mentioned on coins A. D. 239-3,59. This
official would be needed only in cities 1 where some important Pane-
gyris took place. Doubtless the Panegyriarch, besides directing it,
generally was responsible for part of the expense. Thus at Mitylene
he was appointed solely for the Panegyris at Therma, at Pergamos for
the shows connected with the Asian temples of the Augusti2, at
Branchidae for the great festival Didyrneia, at Nysa probably for
the festival at Akharaka. There is no evidence of the nature of the
Apamean Panegyris, but the Agonothetes who is mentioned on
coins3 and in inscr. 300 probably presided at games held in connexion
with the same festival. A Panegyris, strictly, was a national gather-
ing ; and the name would hardly be applied to an Apamean festival,
unless people flocked to it from a much larger district than the mere
territory of the city. This suggests that the Koinon of Phrygia,
mentioned on earlier coins, is the Panegyris of later coins; but, at
present, there is not evidence to prove this theory.
(5) Seitones. It must have been a difficult thing to keep sufficient
supply in stock to feed the population of the large cities of Asia.
Means of transport were no doubt highly developed i, but without
the use of steam the problem must have been a hard one, when the
harvest of the neighbourhood was bad. The office of Seitones is often
mentioned in the Asian cities ; and may be assumed at Eumeneia
from no. 203. But from the language of that inscription it would
appear that at Eumeneia the office was only occasional, a person being
appointed to manage the purchase of corn when need arose. In
perhaps at Ilium CIG 3631, at Akmonia strangers from other cities went in
no. 549, at Sebastopolis Car. Sterrett numbers.
E. J. no. 25, at Nysa BCH 1883 p. 273 ; 2 TvavtjyvpiapxflcrnVTa vaav rau iv rij
also in Athens, Nikomedeia, Nikaia, ~KapirpoTa.Tj]Il€pyap-qvav p.r]Tpow6\ei. These
Palmyra. The Argyrotamias of a city Naol were the temples of the imperial
must be carefully distinguished from the cultus (from which Pergamos derived
Argyrotamias of Asia, p. 188. the triple neokorate); and the expres-
1 A Panegyris is mentioned at Nysa sion suggests that the office was con-
BCH 1883 p. 272, 1886 pp. 455, 520, at nected with the Eoinon Asias.
Pergamos ib. p. 416, at Mitylene CIG 3 em • AmNOGeTOY ■ AP-
2187, at Branchidai 2885c, at Aphro- TEMA • T (i.e. Artemas tris, not
disias 2758, Aizanoi 3831 a 15, Phila- agonothetes tris) under Severus, p. 600n.
delpheia 3418, Sardis 3462, Cnidos 2653. * Strab. p. 577 on the transport of
In many of these it is known that Docimian marble.
M. Paris, the Argyrotamias superintended the debts due to the city,
like the curatores kalendarii in the west; and, though there is not
sufficient evidence to prove this theory, it has probability in its
favour.
(4) Panegyeiarch is mentioned on coins A. D. 239-3,59. This
official would be needed only in cities 1 where some important Pane-
gyris took place. Doubtless the Panegyriarch, besides directing it,
generally was responsible for part of the expense. Thus at Mitylene
he was appointed solely for the Panegyris at Therma, at Pergamos for
the shows connected with the Asian temples of the Augusti2, at
Branchidae for the great festival Didyrneia, at Nysa probably for
the festival at Akharaka. There is no evidence of the nature of the
Apamean Panegyris, but the Agonothetes who is mentioned on
coins3 and in inscr. 300 probably presided at games held in connexion
with the same festival. A Panegyris, strictly, was a national gather-
ing ; and the name would hardly be applied to an Apamean festival,
unless people flocked to it from a much larger district than the mere
territory of the city. This suggests that the Koinon of Phrygia,
mentioned on earlier coins, is the Panegyris of later coins; but, at
present, there is not evidence to prove this theory.
(5) Seitones. It must have been a difficult thing to keep sufficient
supply in stock to feed the population of the large cities of Asia.
Means of transport were no doubt highly developed i, but without
the use of steam the problem must have been a hard one, when the
harvest of the neighbourhood was bad. The office of Seitones is often
mentioned in the Asian cities ; and may be assumed at Eumeneia
from no. 203. But from the language of that inscription it would
appear that at Eumeneia the office was only occasional, a person being
appointed to manage the purchase of corn when need arose. In
perhaps at Ilium CIG 3631, at Akmonia strangers from other cities went in
no. 549, at Sebastopolis Car. Sterrett numbers.
E. J. no. 25, at Nysa BCH 1883 p. 273 ; 2 TvavtjyvpiapxflcrnVTa vaav rau iv rij
also in Athens, Nikomedeia, Nikaia, ~KapirpoTa.Tj]Il€pyap-qvav p.r]Tpow6\ei. These
Palmyra. The Argyrotamias of a city Naol were the temples of the imperial
must be carefully distinguished from the cultus (from which Pergamos derived
Argyrotamias of Asia, p. 188. the triple neokorate); and the expres-
1 A Panegyris is mentioned at Nysa sion suggests that the office was con-
BCH 1883 p. 272, 1886 pp. 455, 520, at nected with the Eoinon Asias.
Pergamos ib. p. 416, at Mitylene CIG 3 em • AmNOGeTOY ■ AP-
2187, at Branchidai 2885c, at Aphro- TEMA • T (i.e. Artemas tris, not
disias 2758, Aizanoi 3831 a 15, Phila- agonothetes tris) under Severus, p. 600n.
delpheia 3418, Sardis 3462, Cnidos 2653. * Strab. p. 577 on the transport of
In many of these it is known that Docimian marble.