Epimeletai (epimeletai or episkopoi)

A Greek title (επιμεληται) used for various officials and functionaries, who 'take care of something ' (epimeleîsthai). The author of the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia mentions for Athens the epimeletai of wells (43,1), of the market (51,4), of the festival of Dionysia (56,4), and of the Eleusinian Mysteries (57,1). Also documented are epimeletai as court officials who deal with the tributes in the Delian-Athenian League (ML 68), epimeletai of shipyards (such as IG II2 1629, 178-179; Dem. Or. 22,63. Epimeletai was sometimes the title of a supervisor, a Royal deputy for a polis or a governor. Antipater I the Idumaean, the father of Herodes the Great, was called 'epimeletes of the Jews '. In Roman times, when epimeletai appear on coins, the title usually refers to magistrates who were in charge of the coinage of the polis.

Unfortunately, when only the short form is given, it can be difficult to differentiate between EΠI in the sense of 'struck under ' or 'struck in the time of ' and EΠI as an abbreviation of the title epimeletes. In Grimenothyrae, f.i., most coin legends naming Loukios Tullios Per. start with the short EΠI, and it is only through a few types with the longer EΠIM that Loukios ' title epimeletes becomes apparent (RPC III 2481ff.).