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An Attic Inscription of the Archidamian War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

These three numbers in the Corpus are parts of one inscription, which evidently contains the expenditure of Athena's Treasurers for some portion of the years 432/1–427/6. 294 is in two pieces, of which fragment a had not apparently been seen since Lolling's time, and I.G. I2. gives it from Lolling's not quite correct copy: Bannier had observed with great acuteness from the published copies that fragments a and b of 294 join.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1930

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1 In fragment b line 10, χοισ is wrong: the stone has χοσι

2 I joined 294b and 308 in the autumn of

1927, guided by the similarity of the writing. About a month later, I came by accident on 294a, which provided actual contacts with the other two. Very soon after I had to leave Athens, having noted three or four further fragments which seemed similar, though I could not fix their places: they included 299, and also I.G. I2. 634 though I have made nothing further of this, nor exactly checked the size of the writing: perhaps it comes from a document of the Logistai of 426. Since then, I have had much correspondence with Mr. B. D. Meritt, to whose suggestions most of what is of value in the following paper is due.

I must further thank Dr. Leonardos for the most indulgent hospitality I enjoyed in his Museum; and Stavros, the Phylax, who helped me bed my fragments in plaster.

3 Name of chief Tamias, genitive, e.g. The same in lines 9 and 15.

4 Name and demotic of chief Trieropoios, dative. The same in lines 11 and 13–14.

5 (12) ρ (5) τα οσιν: a participial phrase, defining the functions of these Trieropoioi.

6 E.g.

7 E.g. πϵμπτϵσ.

8 (17) (12): the day of the prytany, and the sum of money. E.g.

9 E.g.

10 E.g. ϵνατϵσ.

11 (59) (11) the date by month and by prytany? E.g. The date by month is, however, unexpected. (This equation is right, I believe, for the year 431–0).

12 Sum of money. E.g.

13 In this list, the 30 are arranged in Tribes, the 3 of the Tribe Antiochis standing last.

14 Not indicated in I.G. I2. I hope to publish a revised text of this stone shortly.

15 Which would exclude Bannier's date (422–419), adopted by I.G. I2. Perikles' name is not, of course, certain, though the name is evidently that of a Strategos.

16 Lines 114–120 (Num. Chron., 1930, p. 38): ‘from the year's revenues collected by ourselves, lumps of Skapte Hyle gold of a total weight of 3 minas: their silver value is 30 minas, computed at the rate of 10–1.’ See Num. Chron., 1930, p. 24 (cf. also pp. 30, 33).

17 I would restore lines 61/62 exempli gratia (5)