¹ ADelt xxii (1967)Google ScholarChron. 86, site no. 40, figs 39–40. The exact location is at the intersection of Kerameikou and Plateon streets, a short distance north-west of the temple of Artemis Ariste and Kalliste.

² The most detailed attempt to restore the Demosion Sema is by Brueckner, A., ‘Kerameikos-Studien’, AthMitt xxxv (1910) 183–234Google Scholar. He argued for a center-of-the-road disposition of the polyandria. Later attempts at restoration are dealt with by Jacoby, F., ‘Patrios Nomos: State Burial in Athens and the Public Cemetery in the Kerameikos’, JHS lxiv (1944) 37–66CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The most recent discussion of the polyandrion of the Spartans and the adjacent tombs is by Willemsen, F., ‘Zu den Lakedämoniergräbern im Kerameikos’, AthMitt xcii (1977) 117–57Google Scholar. Excavation in the area with the trenches has yielded the following results. The ancient road to the Academy is attested by 4–5 layers, 2·20 m thick, dating from the (late) archaic to the Hellenistic period. The trenches encroach upon the west side of the road and were dug into its earliest level(s). In the north-east of the excavated plot was found tomb VIII, its date determined by two white-ground lekythoi from about 450–25 found in it. Other tombs (III–V) are located to the west of the ten trenches and are of Hellenistic date, as is a wall, running north—south, of which 4 m survives and which seems to have served as a peribolos wall for the tombs. Another tomb (II) is again of classical date. To the east of the wall a conduit of Hellenistic date, also running north—south, was dug deep down into the Academy road levels and cuts in part through the trenches. It becomes quite obvious from the excavation that the original site of the ten trenches was preserved intact for a maximum of c. 200 years; it coexisted with at least two private tombs. If one compares the life span of the site to that of the tomb of the Spartans of 403, which survived only for some 50 years, we probably have on our excavation site a characteristic feature which could apply to other public memorials along the Academy road.

³ IG i² 928 consists of several fragments, some of them only known by nineteenth-century transcripts. See Bradeen, D. W., Inscriptions. The Funerary Monuments, Athenian Agora xvii (1974)Google Scholar no. 1. Bradeen's view that IG i² 928 consisted of ten stelai has remained unchallenged as far as I know.

⁴ For such a stelai wall and the sunken channels see the reconstruction by Bradeen, in Hesp. xxxiii (1964) 26Google Scholar, fig. 1.

⁵ I hope to deal with some controversial aspects of the dating of IG i² 929 in a comprehensive study of the Demosion Sema. There I shall also discuss the late additions of names to the principal list.

⁶ See for fragment (d) Bradeen (n. 3) 4, with ΟΙ[ΝΕ]ΙΣ in the nominative and not, as usually, in the genitive.

⁷ Only minor casualties are listed after the sites of which mention is preserved. There has been a good deal of controversy about where the majority of the casualties occurred, since the site is unfortunately not preserved on the extant fragments. However, that it was Drabeskos, where the Athenians incurred great losses, is unquestionable, and this battle gives us the date for the memorial.

⁸ πρῶτοι in Pausanias i 29.4 must in my view be explained with reference to the topography rather than the chronology of the Demosion Sema.

⁹ The location in the Demosion Sema of the memorial for the dead in the Egyptian campaign is not recorded by Pausanias. Since it emerges from Pausanias' description that polyandria associated with Athenian defeat were grouped together, separately from others attesting victory, the memorial to which IG i² 929 belongs may have been located close to that of 464. If that is so we are left with an alternative for the identification of the ten trenches.