60 Dr. Kennepy Batvin’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
quarter of the town which had been occupied by the Agora, and the buildings 
connected therewith, amongst which it is highly probably that the Chreophylakion 
was one. The existence, moreover, of the marble fragment which I have men- 
tioned, amongst the remains of its mason-work, proves that it had been erected 
out of the same materials with the ramparts (which contain, as we have seen, so 
many memorials of Aphrodisias), and of course subsequently to the date of the 
Chreophylakion. 
The supposition, therefore, is more probable, that it formed one of the outer 
works of the fortifications which had been erected in the time of Constantius, 
when the important positions of Asia Minor were strengthened against any 
possible attacks from the growing power of the Persians under their second 
Sapor. 
To return from this digression; I think it so evident that the words 
EI STE®ANH®OPOY are to be restored to this titulus, that a few ex- 
planatory remarks as to the nature of this office may not be regarded as out of 
place. 
The name, as in other instances, appears to have been adopted from the 
Athenians, amongst whom the Stephanephorot were officers of sacerdotal rank. 
The Hierophant, who presided over the Thesmophoria, was a Stephanephoros, 
and so was also the High Priest of Pallas. So far there is ground for Passow’s 
explanation of the term, who parallels the office with that of the #Vamen* amongst 
* Passow’s explanation (Handworterb. ii. p. 956, a.), of SrePavnse0s is, eine obrigkeitliche Person 
in den Griechischen Stadten, die mit dem flamen der Romer verglichen wird. This is in conformity 
to Van Dale, who states it as his opinion that the Stephanephovos was the Flamen, or Neocoral 
Priest, of the Augusti. Vid. Dissert. vy. c. 1, pp. 360, ss. 
The reader who desires more ample information on this subject is referred to Selden, ad Marm. 
Arundel. p. 135. Tristan, p. 598. Spanheim, Dissert. v. pp- 248, s. Eckhel (who professes to 
follow Selden and Van Dale), vol. iv. pp. 212. ss. 
It appears from monuments that the Stephanephore ranked in some cities amongst the Epony- 
mous magistrates, that is, such as distinguished by their offices the years in which they held them, 
and thus supplied the Fasti with dates. Vid. Philostr. Vit. Sophist. ii. 26, 2. Spon. Miscell. Erud. 
Antiq. p. 353. These refer to Smyrna; the probability is also, that they enjoyed the same rank in 
the confederate city of Magnesia, at least if we are to conclude from the Marmor. Oxon. II., 
which recites the treaty between the Magnesians of Tonia and the citizens of Smyrna. See Eckhel, 
ubi supra, pp. 214, 256. 
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