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Some Unpublished Attic Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Arthur M. Woodward
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I include in this paper seven Attic inscriptions, all previously unpublished with the exception of No. 5, which was published, from an incomplete copy, by Köhler in the Corpus (I.G. ii. 89). The first three are in the Athens Epigraphical Museum, the other four in the Acropolis Museum. The latter will be republished shortly in the catalogue of the Acropolis Museum, at present being undertaken by the British School at Athens, but owing to limitations of space I am unable to discuss in its pages the points raised by them with the fulness that is desirable. Nos. 2 and 3 owe their appearance here to their connexion with No. 4, which is a fragment of one of the records of the ‘traditiones rerum sacrarum’ of Athena and the other deities: for, while studying the other inscriptions of this class in the Epigraphical Museum, I found Nos. 2 and 3, which also belong to it, among the miscellaneous unpublished fragments, and therefore include them together here. The discovery of No. 1 was even more accidental, but the fact, which one could not fail to recognize at once, that it was a fragment of the famous ‘Quota-lists’ is enough to justify its publication here. I wish to acknowledge the kindness of Dr. Kavvadias, Ephor-general of Antiquities, and Mr. Leonardos, Ephor of the Epigraphical Museum, to whom I am indebted for permission to publish these inscriptions, of Dr. Anton von Premerstein of the Austrian Archaeological Institute for his ready help and advice, and of Mr. M. N. Tod for reading the proofs of this article and making several important corrections.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , November 1908, pp. 291 - 312
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1908

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References

1 In I.G. i. 237 it only pays 100, whether we should restore the name, as I believe, in 1. 15 or in 1. 23.

2 For the importance of these dates see Lehner, op. cit. pp. 17 and 21 respectively.

3 See instances in Meisterhans, , Grammatik der Attischen Inschriften, p. 66Google Scholar, notes 584 and 585.

4 See instances in Meisterhans (op. cit. p. 21, note 110) of ϵ for ϵι (and vice versa) before a consonant. It is a common usage in the century 450–350, though not so common as the same usage before a vowel.

5 Lohner, op. cit. p. 31.

6 He cannot be γραμματεύς to the ταμίαι either of this year or of the years immediately before or after, as their names are known to be different.

7 For the name cf. Kirchner, Prosopographia Attica, s.v. For ος = ους in such genitives cf. Meisterhans, , Grammatik der Attischen Inschriften,3 p. 6Google Scholar, note 22, where it is pointed out that it survives as the normal usage as late as 360.

8 For the survival of ο for ου see Meisterhans, loc. cit.

9 In a note on I.G. ii. 2. 667. See also Lehner, op. cit. p. 17.

10 Meisterhans, op. cit. p. 254, gives statistics of the relative frequency of the two uses, which show that ὅπως is found oftener than ὅπως ἄν in Attic inscriptions in the first century B.C., after becoming increasingly common in the intervening centuries.

11 Pape-lienseler, Wörterbuch der Griechischen Eigennamen, s. v.

12 Newman, , Politics of Aristotle, vol. iv., pp. 307, 8Google Scholar; vide references ibid.

13 See Meisterhans, op. cit. pp. 45, 46, for instances of the promiscuous use of ϵι for ϵ, and vice versa, in fourth century inscriptions.

14 I.G. ii. 1. 64, republished in Ath. Mitth. 1877, pp. 209 foll., and Hicks2, 128.

15 The whole inscription may be compared with the present fragment with advantage: it likewise contains a long preamble to an honorary decree, consisting of a recital in sixty-six lines (of which the beginning is missing) of the honourable career of the recipient, before the mover arrives at the actual motion containing the vote of the crown.

16 Thuc. viii. 25; Dem. 46, 1. 20, etc.

17 iii. 5. 3.

18 iv. 16, 4.

19 Ditt.2 587, 1. 301, and note ad loc.

20 Op. cit. p. 249, note 1942.

21 Dittenb., Syll. 249, 1. 49Google Scholar; 615, 1. 4; 789, 1. 84: μεταγράψαι is used in the same sense, ibid. 54,1. 26. ἐπανορθοῦν has other meanings as well in Attic inscriptions, but this particular use is not apparently found elsewhere.