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The Greek Inscriptions at Petworth House

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

C. A. Hutton
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In the spring of 1915 I had the opportunity of examining the long Greek inscription at Petworth House, Sussex, first published in 1883 by U. Köhler (Ath. Mitt. viii. pp. 57 f.), from a squeeze and copy supplied by the late Dr. A. S. Murray (Fig. 1), and republished with corrections in I.G. ii. 5, 477 d. The right side of the inscription is so much worn (Pl. XIV.) that though the letters can be traced in a good light on the stone or on a photograph, they leave no impression on a squeeze; I was therefore able to make some important additions to the published text.

They may be summed up as follows:—

(1) The lines are incomplete on the right side.

(2) The stone contains lists of names from six tribes, not four, but a portion of the lines belonging to the third and the sixth tribe has been cut off.

(3) The second tribe is Akamantis and the list under that heading is now complete; the third is Hippothontis.

(4) A few words and letters have been added to the fragmentary Decree at the top of the stone (ll. 1–6).

(5) Köhler's restorations of the text of the second Decree (ll. 7–26) are almost all correct.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 21 , November 1916 , pp. 155 - 165
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1916

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References

page 155 note 1 Wyndham, , Catalogue, pp. 137 f. Pl LXXXV.Google Scholar; Michaelis, , Anc. Marbles, p. 606Google Scholar; Ath. Mitt. (1883) viii. pp. 57 f., (1898) xxiii, p. 420, note 3; B.C.H. (1889) xiii. pp. 169 f.; I.G. ii. 5, 477 d; Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich-Ungarn, 1897, p. 65; Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. Ergastinai.

page 157 note 1 Catalogue of the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Possession of Lord Leconfield, by Wyndham, Margaret, pp. 137 f. Pl. LXXXV.Google Scholar

page 157 note 2 Loewy, Inschr. Gr. Bildhauer, No. 517.

page 160 note 1 I am indebted to Mr. Mason for the careful preparation of this facsimile, which is made from a photograph.

page 160 note 2 For the aspiration cf. καθ' ἔτος, Dittenberger, , Syll. 2139, l. 24Google Scholar; and Meisterhans-Schwyzer,3 p. 87, n. 750.

page 160 note 3 Michaelis, , Der Parthenon, Anh. ii. c. Nos. 151–162Google Scholar gives the most important references.

page 161 note 1 Köhler read Δημοχάρους.

page 161 note 2 Kirchner, , Prosographia Attica, p. 649.Google Scholar

page 161 note 3 I.G. v. 2, 574 e, ll. 27, 28.

page 161 note 4 Arch.-epig. Mitt, aus Oesterreich, 1897, p. 65.

page 161 note 5 Paton-Hicks, , Inscriptions of Cos, 367, l. 15.Google Scholar

page 162 note 1 Ath. Mitt. 1898, p. 420, note 3.

page 163 note 1 Anecdotes, pp. 278 ff. Published in 1800.

page 163 note 2 Wyndham, , Catalogue, No. 6, p. 9, Pl. VI.Google Scholar The facsimile published in the Catalogue shews more traces of letters in ll. 2 and 3, and the three final letters of ἐποίησεν. It was re-drawn from a sketch and a rough rubbing made merely as memoranda to supplement a photograph of the inscription. The present facsimile reproduces only those letters which appear distinctly on a carefully made rubbing.

page 164 note 1 Inschriften Griech. Bildhauer, p. 346. To the references there given should be added I.G. xiv. 132* (= C.I.G. 6138). The important references are: Dallaway, , Anecdotes, p. 282 and note 3Google Scholar; Of Statuary, p. 321; and Michaelis, , in Arch. Zeit. 1880, p. 17Google Scholar, note 29, with a rough sketch.

page 164 note 2 Dallaway read the fourth line ἐποίει, probably on the analogy of the Vatican inscription.

page 164 note 3 The vertical black line in the facsimile represents the edge of the support.

page 164 note 4 Anecdotes, p. 282.

page 164 note 5 Loewy, op. cit. No. 343.

page 164 note 6 Loewy enumerates nine sculptors of the name.

page 164 note 7 The letters in l. 2 suggest some such name as ΡΑφ[εω]Τ[η]Σ The coins of Raphia of Imperial date shew that the city had a local cult of the child Dionysos, and a statue connected with it. As the father's name invariably precedes the name of the birth-place in these inscriptions, the third word would necessarily be something like ἀγ] ΑΛ[ματοπο]ΙΟΣ

page 165 note 1 Loc. cit.

page 165 note 2 Prologue to Book V. of the Fables.