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The Development of Lakonian Lettering: A Reconsideration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Abstract

The stele recording the victories of the Spartan Damonon and his son is reconsidered, and dated 403 B.C. It is argued that consequently other key examples of Lakonian lettering should be lowered in date.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1988

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References

1 RhMus 57 (1902) 539–42, approved by Meyer, E.. Theopomps Hellenika (1909), 266 n.1.Google Scholar

2 Mélanges Glotz I (1932), 1–6.

3 LSAG 197.

4 IG V. i. 213; DGE 12; Buck 71; LSAG 196–7, 201 n. 52, 407 n. 52. [The dedicatory distich is Hansen, Carmina Epigraphica Graeca I n. 378. The only available photograph of the relief is BSA xiii (1907–8) 174; IG V. i, pl. 2 and LSAG pl. 38. 52 are better for the lettering.]

5 Cf. LSAG 60.

6 Perhaps the reins were really slackened then, as their turn had to be wider.

7 [She noted ABV 369, Leagros Group nn.112–3. 112 was once on display at Sparta as a dedication to Athena Chalkioikos.]

8 This was first, as far as I can see, fixed by Tudeer, Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Syrakus (1913). He got it by postulating that the other Sicilian coinages copied Syracuse always, and fast; e.g., Leontinoi fell in 422 or later, and it is on her last issues. Eumenos, Sosion, Euainetos (or, at least, Euain-) went on to c. 414 (or later, if the ‘Assinaros issue’ should in fact be post-414). The dating is accepted by Jenkins, , Coins of Greek Sicily (1966), 1920Google Scholar, and by Kraay, , Archaic and Classical Greek Coins (1976), 221–2.Google Scholar

9 BSA 62 (1967) 19–26.

10 [For individual Lakonian letter-forms, cf. LSAG, 183–4.]

11 Once in γαιαFοχος, omitted in second reference to the name.

12 [Cf. Lewis, , in Carradice, (ed.), Coinage and Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires (1987), 58Google Scholar: ‘very unlike anything we know of from contemporary Laconia’.]

13 [For the later date and further discussion, see Cartledge, , LCM 1 (1976) 8792Google Scholar; further references in SEG XXVIII 408, XXXII 398.]