• Teos to Samothrace, 2nd c. BC (theoros, gr. θεωρός)

Agathokles son of Apoll[—] is a Teian man mentioned in a list of theoroi (I.Samothrace Theoroi 6, 29) who paid an official visit to the shrine of the Great Gods in Samothrace, during the same unknown year. The eponymous basileus is [—]x son of Athana[—], not attested elsewhere. All these men were rewarded with proxeny. The other theoroi came from Samos and Kos. The list problably continued on another block below; a good candidate for this second block, as suggested by N. Dimitrova in the edition of this text, could be I.Samothrace Theoroi 11. Therefore, Agathokles could have other colleagues from Teos in his journey.

To date I.Samothrace Theoroi 6 one has to rely mainly on palaeography: the shape especially of deltas, ni, omicron, and pi suggests that the text was inscribed in the mid-to-late Hellenistic period. One Agathokles son of Apollodoros is known in a contemporary list of Teian citizens (Demangel, R., Laumonier, A. (1922), ‘Inscriptions d’Ionie’, BCH 46, n°3 col. ii l. 13) and could be the same man; the list could date back to the beginning of the 2nd c. BC, based on prosopgraphy. Nonetheless, the two names are quite common in Teian epigraphy.