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I.—Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

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The authors' aim is to include in this article all the inscriptions on minor votive objects found at Sparta during the excavations, by the British School, of the Sanctuaries of Orthia (in 1906–10) and of Athena Chalkioikos (in 1907–08). They have been arranged according to material, those from each of these two sites being described separately, in the following order: stone, metal, ivory, pottery.

A few of these inscriptions, which have been published already in the Annual and subsequently in the Laconian volume of the Corpus (I.G. v. 1), are re-published here, without facsimiles, for the sake of completeness. Mr. Woodward made copies of almost all these inscriptions in 1907–08, but never completed the material for publication, owing to the claims of other work. Mr. Hondius, in 1921, re-copied and took impressions of all those inscribed on the carvings in soft stone, except Nos. 20 and 21, and with these exceptions his drawings of the unpublished examples are here reproduced. When Mr. Woodward's reading differs from his, the two versions are given. The inscriptions on the ivory flutes (Nos. 26, 27) are from Mr. Hondius's copies, as are Nos. 66 and 69 of those on the bronze objects; Mr. Woodward is responsible for those on Nos. 24, 67, 68 of the same material, which seem to have escaped Mr. Hondius's notice, and for all those on the pottery fragments from both the sites.

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Laconia
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1921

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page 88 note 1 Stelai dedicated by victors in the παιδικὀς ἀγὠν and other formal inscriptions from these sites are omitted, as they have been fully published already.

page 88 note 2 These drawings are from the pen of Mrs. M. A. Hondius.

page 89 note 1 The Inventory number of the Sparta Museum is placed in brackets after the index number of each inscription, e. g. 3 (1493).

page 89 note 2 B.S.A. xii. p. 334 f.; 337, Fig. 4; xiii. p. 360, Fig. 8; xiv. p. 25, Fig. 10; xvi. p. 28.

page 89 note 3 p. 112 f.

page 89 note 4 Nos. 3, τᾶ; 4 (?); 18(?); 25; 27 (?).

page 91 note 1 Cf. Thumb, , Handbuch der griechischen Dialekte (1909), p. 86, 2.Google Scholar

page 91 note 2 Thumb, op. cit. p. 128, 9a. This usage is not early except at Gortyn.

page 91 note 3 It is not inconceivable that he was of Cretan extraction, though using the Laconian alphabet and dialect; -ιο- for -εο- is common to both dialects.

page 91 note 4 Thumb, op. cit. p. 175, 13b.

page 91 note 5 Thus he rejects παλαὸρ in Arist. Lys. 988, though read by the best MS. (cf. Meister, R., Dorer und Achaeer, p. 48Google Scholar), regards the Timotheos decree (Boethius, , de Inst. Mus. i. 2Google Scholar) as a grammarian's forgery, and distrusts both the state of the text and Wilamowitz's handling of it (Timotheos, , Persai, p. 70 f.Google Scholar).

page 91 note 6 Handbuch, p. 89, § 95, 2.

page 92 note 1 Thumb, p. 127, § 141, 6 (b), (c); S.G.D.I. 4991.

page 93 note 1 Cf. γαύεν (infinitive) in Pindar, Ol. 1, l. 3. The proper name Γῆρυς is found at Eretria, , I.G. xii. 9, 234Google Scholar; Bechtel, , Hist. Personennamen des Griechischen bis zur Kaiserzeit, p. 108Google Scholar, doubts if it is Greek at all, and wrongly suggests a connexion with γῆρας = old age. Analogous names seem to be Γηρυόνης, Γηρυών, and Γηρυτάδηα; cf. Boisacq, , Dict. étymol., p. 146.Google Scholar

page 93 note 2 This, or possibly the leg of a throne, seems the most likely explanation. The quality of the work scarcely permits of a definite choice between these alternatives.

page 94 note 1 Though Herodotus gives us Βοῦλις as a Spartan name, vii. 134 ff.; the same name is spelt Βοῦρις, Plut. Apophth. Lac. 63: cf. Poralla, Prosopogr. der Lakedaimonier, No. 176.

page 94 note 2 And presumably Τρούθιππος, , I.G. xii. 9, 245 A., l. 386.Google Scholar Should we regard Τρεῦθος at Hermione, , I.G. iv. 729Google Scholar, A. l. 18 as = Τροῦθος? For the root, cf. Boisacq, , Dict. étymol., p. 920Google Scholar, s.v. στρουθός.

page 95 note 1 Cf. Bechtel, op. cit., p. 516.

page 95 note 2 Ψισιμίδς, connected with ψίσις (= φθίσις, Hesych.), cf. ψίνοντος = φθίνοντος (I.G. xii. 5, 2, 867) (cf. Schwyzer, E., Glotta, 1921, p. 79Google Scholar), would be the most likely explanation, but the first letter seems an insuperable objection to this view.

page 96 note 1 It seems safer to us to retain the traditional explanation here, as Perdrizet's contentions do not apply.

page 97 note 1 Handbuch, p. 88, § 95, 1. Σίος, σιῶν = θεός θεῶν in Alcman and in Lysistr. are dismissed as due to ‘grammatische Uberarbeitung’ of the text!, but we have 4th-century evidence in ἀνέσηκε, , I.G. v. 1, 255.Google Scholar

page 97 note 2 And on the Arkesilas vase in the word ΣλιφὀΜΑΨΟϟ(=..ὁμαξος

page 98 note 1 For which no nearer analogy seems to exist than Πράξιππος. S.G.D.I. 4322, l. 41 (Karpathos).

page 99 note 1 Cf. Πραξῖν[οσ], lacking the last two letters, on a clay tessera from Mantineia, , I.G. v. 2, 323Google Scholar, No. 84, and Πραξίνοος, ibid., No. 17.

page 100 note 1 A Laconian name found at Delphi (first letter restored): cf. B.C.H. xxvii. (1903), p. 34, col. ii, B, l. 8 = Poralla, op. cit. No. 178.

page 103 note 1 Nor is any other instance recorded by Rouse in his Greek Votive Offerings. Do our examples indicate gratitude or conversion?

page 103 note 2 Whence Mod. Gr. ἀχλάδι (= pear).

page 103 note 3 The latter alternative seems almost impossible (unless it were a genitive?), as it would involve the unattractive assumption of assimilation with preceding alphas, for Ἀχράδοτος, or an unique variant of the termination in -άτας (= -άτης).

page 104 note 1 Cf. Bosanquet, , B.S.A. xii. pp. 332 ff.Google Scholar

page 104 note 2 See p. 115 below, where indications of disturbed stratification are adduced.

page 106 note 1 In Addenda Ultima, p. xxv. The digamma is omitted in error there.

page 106 note 2 B.S.A. xiv. p. 34; cf. xvi. p. 28.

page 106 note 3 See note 1. ‘VI. Saec. tribuebat editor, quem sequi dubito.’—Kolbe, ad loc.

page 106 note 4 ἶρος =ἰερὀςis characteristic of Lesbos, and common in the Ionic dialect, but there is no possibility of thus accounting for our present form. The is an insuperable objection. Presumably the word should have been written hιαρὀν not hιερὀν

page 107 note 1 Cf. Thumb, op. cit. p. 88.

page 109 note 1 The only one known at Sparta would appear to be Τράχαλος (cf. Poralla, op. cit. No. 707), who served at Delphi as ναοποιὸς in the 4th century.

page 109 note 2 See below, p. 115.

page 110 note 1 The simplest explanation seems to be the omission of an inter-vocalic sigma between α and υ, giving us some name such as Θραὑκληία [=Θρασυκληία], but the first letter visible on the sherd did not seem like Ρ.

page 112 note 1 Cf. the genealogical tables at the end of Poralla, Prosopographia der Lakedaimonier. The earlier bearers of the name (Poralla, Nos. 763, 764) are of course too early for this connexion. Pauly-Wissowa (Niese, s.v. Chilonis) distinguish only two in Hellenistic times, omitting the daughter of Cleomenes II. This suggestion is due to Mr. A. J. B. Wace.

page 113 note 1 B.S.A. xvi. p. 37.

page 113 note 2 Op. cit. xiv. p. 26 f.; xvi. pp. 28 ff. (correcting the originally estimated date of 550 B.C. as in xiii. p. 61).

page 114 note 1 The numbers of the sections refer to those into which the area was divided for record purposes during the excavations, cf. B.S.A. xiii. p. 71; xiv. p. 14.

page 115 note 1 B.S.A. xiv. pp. 7 ff.; xvi. p. 38 f.

page 115 note 2 op. cit. xiv. p. 10.

page 115 note 3 Cf. Roberts, E. S., Introd. to Greek Epigraphy, i. p. 269.Google Scholar We have instances of a rough four-stroke sigma on Nos. 6 and 9 above.

page 115 note 4 B.S.A. xiv. p. 43 f.

page 117 note 1 Fροθασία as a variant need not surprise us, though such metathesis is abnormal in the early Laconian dialect: cf., however, Σλιφόμαξος = ‘the mixer of Silphium’ on the Arkesilas vase; the converse is the more frequent usage, especially in Crete.

page 117 note 2 In I.G. v. i. 255, we have, in the 4th century, Fωρθεία, illustrating the change of ο to ω before that of F to β.

page 117 note 3 Excavation inventory number.

page 121 note 1 Cf. the envoy of this name sent to Athens in 378 and 370, Xen. Hell. v. 4, 22; vi. 5, 33.

page 121 note 2 Cf. I.G. v. 1, 4, l. 17; 5. l. 17.

page 125 note 1 I desire to offer sincere thanks to Mr. Woodward for many useful suggestions respecting this section and to Mr. Tod for special help with Nos. 105, 106 and 123.—J. J. E. H.

page 125 note 2 Measurements are given in the following order: Height × Width × Thickness.

page 125 note 3 Dittenberger, , Inschr. v. Olympia, 144.Google Scholar

page 126 note 1 I.G. v. i. 71 b, 21. For the family pedigree see I.G. v. i. p. 131, where Kolbe describes him as Τιβ. Κλ. Βρασίδας II.

page 127 note 1 I.G. ii. 22 (ed. min.), 130, 133.

page 127 note 2 For these corporations see Daremberg-Saglio, s.v. συσσίτια; Poland, , Gesch. d. Griech. Vereinswesen, p. 127.Google Scholar

page 127 note 3 Cf. I.G. ii. 619 b, 619 e; C.I.G. 4269b (Xanthos) and I.G. ii.2 (ed. min.) 1260, 1270, 1272, etc., for further fragments of such inscriptions from Sunium and Eleusis.

page 128 note 1 I.G. ii. 619 b (= I.G. ii.2 (ed. min.) 1299).

page 128 note 2 Ibid. xii. i. 41 and 101.

page 128 note 3 Ibid. xii. ii. 640, 5.

page 128 note 4 Ibid. ii.2 (ed. min.), 130, 161, 162.

page 128 note 5 Ibid. 133.

page 128 note 6 J.H.S. xxxiv. (1914) p. 61 f. Mr. Tod inclines to this solution, but mentions the alternative that Ε may in this Gase equal E′, i.e. the fifth Pasikrates of that name. Β, Γ, Δ are used in this sense, and Β is sometimes written Β for differentiation when so used.

page 128 note 7 I.G. xii. i. 101.

page 128 note 8 Ibid. xiv. 2342.

page 129 note 1 I.G. v. i. 455–613.

page 129 note 2 Ibid. 554.

page 129 note 3 For whom see note on I.G. v. i. 116.

page 129 note 4 Ibid. v. i. 547, 683, with MrTod's, comment, B.S.A. x. 69Google Scholar, and J.H.S. xxxiv. 62.

page 129 note 5 Ibid. V. i. 572,ἠπὁις ...τῆς εἰς αὑτἡν εὑνἱας χἁριν

page 130 note 1 I.G. v. i. 506, 2.

page 130 note 2 B.S.A. xv. p. 69, No. 24.

page 132 note 1 I.G. v. i. 250; 1186, 2, 20.

page 132 note 2 The following inscriptions are still (11th April, 1921) in the late Demarch's house: I.G. v. i. 1110, 1114, 1116, 1119, 1121, 1122, 1130, 1131, 1135, 1136, 1139, 1141.

page 132 note 3 Said to be in the hands of his son-in-law, M. Politsa, a lawyer in Athens.

page 133 note 1 These are the only names in ύ-ξενος given by Bechtel, op. cit. p. 341.

page 133 note 2 Cf. Tillyard, H. J. W., B.S.A. xii. p. 443Google Scholar; I.G. v. i 1112, 5.

page 133 note 3 I.G. v. i. 1146, 52–54, 1145, 42.

page 133 note 4 Pausanias, iii. 21, 7. See Swoboda, , Klio, xii. (1912), pp. 21 ff.Google Scholar

page 133 note 5 I.G. v. i. 1243.

page 134 note 1 I.G. v. i. 371 and commentary.

page 134 note 2 B.S.A. xi. pp. 106, 107.

page 135 note 1 For the meaning of the epithet Teleios, see Class. Rev. xv. (1901). P. 445.Google Scholar where full reference is given to the literature of the name.

page 135 note 2 ἘΦ. Ἀρχ., 1892, 22, 4.

page 135 note 3 I.G. v. i. 372.

page 135 note 4 Ibid. iii. 294.

page 135 note 5 Ibid. xii. i. 701, 704, 707.

page 135 note 6 Paus. viii. 48, 6.

page 135 note 7 See No. 118 above.

page 135 note 8 Wide, S., Lakonische Kulte, p. 298.Google Scholar

page 135 note 9 I.G. v. i. 1119.

page 136 note 1 Paus. iii. 13, 1. See S. Wide, op. cit. p. 319.

page 136 note 2 I.G. v. i. 141.

page 136 note 3 Ibid. vii. 557 (Tanagra, 2nd century A.D.)

page 137 note 1 Very similar in shape to I.G. v. i. 981.

page 137 note 2 Roberts, 259 (the Delphic column).

page 137 note 3 Ibid. 264 (=I.G. v. i. 213).

page 137 note 4 Ibid. 261 (=Hicks and Hill, 24).

page 138 note 1 Malten, , Kyrene, pp. 95165Google Scholar, shows conclusively that there was intercourse before that date.

page 138 note 2 See Roscher, ii. 1737 (Studniçzka); Malten, op. cit. p. 71.

page 139 note 1 The meaning of this epitheton is not clear, but it has probably a geographical significance.

page 139 note 2 Cf. I.G. v. i. 785, 790, 1277, 1303, etc.

page 139 note 3 See Thumb, , Handbuch, § 96Google Scholar; Buck, Introduction, Glossary, s.v. Κασσηρατόριν; Jannaris, , Historical Gk. Grammar, p. 302Google Scholar and Byz. Zeitsch. ix. (1900), p. 418.

page 139 note 4 Cf. I.G. v. i. 1398 (3rd century A.D.).

page 139 note 5 Meisterhans, , Gramm. d. Att. Inschr 3. p. 47.Google Scholar

page 141 note 1 I.G. v. i. 1293 has been brought to the Museum at Gythion from Areopolis.

page 141 note 2 Ibid. 108.

page 142 note 1 Mayser, , Grammatik d. Griech. Papyri, p. 176.Google Scholar

page 142 note 2 Schweizer, , Gramm. Pergamen. Inschr., p. 107.Google Scholar

page 142 note 3 I.G. i. 229. 18.

page 142 note 4 Ditt. Syll. 3 i. 585, l. 70.