¹ The fullest treatment of the text is by A. Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen im Altertum pp. 65–97. See also SIG 1055. Most recently it has been reviewed by Tiverios, M., A.Delt. 29 (1974) A 142–53Google Scholar, esp. 147 n. 29; his treatment of the stone is somewhat capricious. The text has also been mentioned, inter alios, by Gardiner, E. N., JHS 32 (1912) 121CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Amyx, D. A., Hesperia 27 (1958) 182CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Cook, R. M., JdI 74 (1959) 121Google Scholar, and Valavanos, P., Réchaches sur les amphores grecques (BCH suppl. xiii) 454–;5.Google Scholar The last's reference to my ‘datation plus precise’ of the inscription should not be stressed. While I feel that it is closer to 375 than 400 or 350 I cannot provide any solid evidence.

² In IG II² the boy kitharistai are restored in A.I o, following the suggestion of Preuner, , Hermes 57 (1922) 92.Google Scholar Preuner argues a far longer entry for the musical contests (ibid. 91–3), but my concern here is for a minimum restoration, whatever the merits of his list, which is based on that of the roughly contemporary victors' list from Oropos, IG VII 414. I cannot imagine that the two required boys' contests were inscribed one at A.I 0–3 and the other after A.I 21; they must have been placed together somewhere, and therefore the minimum length which I argue is unaffected by Preuner's suggested text, and I give Mommsen's supplement preference merely because it is necessary to place one plausible event in A.I o. See Preuner for earlier bibliography on the topic of boys' events in the musical contests.

³ Tiverios, loc. cit., assumes that they are all preserved, but this view is untenable.

⁴ I do not wish to imply by this that the race was not run in the fourth century, merely that for our minimal restoration it is perhaps legitimate to ignore it. I would consider, along with Gardiner, loc. cit. 190, that it probably was on the card. His remark ‘we do not know that the prizes were always so valuable, or that the programme always contained so many events’ is judicious, but the second part is less compelling than the first; there is little indication of any significant fluctuation in the number of events in the ‘mature’ Panathenaic games. There is also a hint that the number of amphorae may have remained constant; see n. 5.

⁵ Though the attribution of the text to Simonides has been doubted it may still be of his period (thus 60 amphorae may have been the pentathlete's prize in both fifth and fourth centuries). See U. Wilamowitz, Sappho und Simonides 217–18 and Blinkenberg, Ch., Hermes 64 (1929) 272–4.Google Scholar Both point out the acceptability of 60 jars for the men's victor, compared with 30 and 40 in the boys' and youths' event.

⁶ While the hippios race is perhaps the only athletic entry which one would readily add, if we accept Preuner's list of musical events (n. 2) a larger number of lost athletic and equestrian competitions must be supplied.