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The Dedication of Aristokrates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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JHS lxxxiii (1963) 115 n. 82 leaves reasonable cause for doubt about my views, even for those who noted that 1959 came after 1957. IG i2 772 is lost, but presumably the dedication was a fluted column with a tripod mounted on the capital. Consultation of Raubitschek, Dedications will show that no other inscription on a fluted column is known in Athens after 480. It will also show that no other Athenian fluted column had its inscription horizontally across the flutes; the 22 Akropolis pieces have vertical inscriptions. What the chronological implications of the abnormality are is anyone's guess. The eyewitnesses reported some alphas with sloping cross-bar and three-bar sigmas, which push the inscription up, and an isolated eta, which might be thought to bring it down (several cases 460–440, Raubitschek D 46, 135, 136, 166, 174; D 191 is earlier, though not perhaps as early as Raubitschek's 500). More serious is the spelling Σκελίο, with single lambda. The inscription has influenced editors into thinking the single lambda correct, but only one ms. of any author has it, G of Thucydides at viii 89.2. G, we can now see, is a recentior (cf. Dover, CR n.s. iv 76), and a study of Hude's apparatus shows that it is correcting the aberration Σικελίο.
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