Officials and Municipal Functions

We do not have any direct information about whether or not city officials in Asia were paid. One inscription tells us that the agoranomos Aristarchos, son of Demetrios, from Erythrae, used the proceeds from his office to embellish his city by having a marble altar built. However, this inscription refers to an ex-official. Such proceeds are likely to have come from fines and dues which the agoranomos and probably other city officials had the right to impose. A letter of Eumenes II to Tyraion in Phrygia shows that the proceeds from the office of the agoranomos in a subject city went to the royal treasury. Inscriptions from Asian cities reveal that gymnasiarchs could impose small fines in Ceos, as ynomoi in Pergamum, neopoioi in Samos, agoranomoi in Selymbria, and other officials elsewhere. At least some offices in Hellenistic Athens could bring in revenues as well.

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