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Philip V and Lemnos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

P. M. Fraser and
A. H. McDonald
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The letter of Philip V to the Athenian cleruchs in Hephaestia on Lemnos was discovered in 1938 during the Italian excavations of the Cabirion there. It was published by Dr. Silvio Accame in Riv. Fil. LXIX (1941), 179 ff., and repeated by Robert, Rev. des Études Grecques, 1944, 221, no. 150. The stone is now in the Epigraphical Museum in Athens (EM 13148). It has been damaged since its original publication.

The revised text of the inscription given here is based on a study of the stone in Athens by Fraser in 1951, and on a combined study of the squeeze and a photograph of the squeeze (pl. X, 2) by both of us.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 1-2 , November 1952, pp. 81 - 83
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Copyright © P. M. Fraser and A. H. McDonald 1952. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Nic. Dam., FGrH. 90, F. 52, quoted by Accame, l.c. 190 : ἀφικνοῦνται νεάνισκοι Τόττης καὶ Ὄννης ἐκ Φρυγίας ἱερὰ ἔχοντες Καβείρων ἐν κίστει κεκαλυμμένα. cf. Hemberg, , Die Kabiren (Uppsala, 1950), 138 fGoogle Scholar.

2 Welles, Royal Correspondence, 36, l. 6, πρὸς τὸ θε[ῖον εὐ] σεβῶς δια[κ]εῖσθαι: ibid. 44, l. 27; 62, l. 5; 66, l. 10: all πρὸς or περὶ τὸ θεῖον: UPZ, 24, l. II; 33, l. 10; 35, l. 25; 36, l. 22; 39, l. 5, etc.; Robert, Sinwi, 9, ll. 7–8; 10, ll. 9–10; 20, l. 6. cf. in general Holleaux, , Archiv VI, 1913, pp. 22–3Google Scholar = Études III, p. 97.

3 The contrast between ὁ θεός and τὸ θεῖον is brought out by UPZ, 20, l. 27, κατὰ πρόσταγμα δὲ τοῦ θεοῦ… (l. 30) συντετηρημένως πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ἑκουσίως ποεῖ.

4 Bauer, Wörterbuch,4 s.v. πίμπλημι.

5 For μετέχειν and τελεῖσθαι in connection with mysteries v. Syll 3 index, s.vv.

6 Welles, Royal Correspondence, pp. LXX–LXXI, under F (a).

7 cf. Accame, 190–1, who takes ἰδεῖν in this sense and compromises by suggesting that Philip may have been initiated and admitted to ἐποπτεία in quick succession. What evidence there is points to a considerable gap, however: Plut. Demetr. 26, quoted by Accame, ibid.

8 Hemberg, o.c., pp. 49 ff, 160 ff.

9 Walbank, Philip V, 267–8. Philip's dedication to Herakles referred to ibid., 267, n. 6, is published by Edson, C. F., Harvard Theol. Rev. LI, 1940, 125–6Google Scholar.

10 Accame, 180–1, interprets Liv. XXVIII, 5, 1, where Sulpicius and Attalus are said to have joined naval forces and crossed (transmiserunt) to Lemnos, as signifying ‘incontrovertibilmente that Lemnos was not at that time Macedonian. We do not feel that the phraseology is definite enough to permit any argument about the political status of Lemnos. Our inscription throws no light on the question.