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Some more Fragments of Attic Treasure-Records of the Fifth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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The following five inscribed fragments of Pentelic marble, which I have recognised as belonging to the series of Attic Treasure-records of the fifth century B.C., have lain for many years among the unpublished inscriptions from the Acropolis in the Epigraphical Museum at Athens. This series of records, as regards the objects dedicated in the ‘Pronaos,’ the ‘Hekatompedon’ and the ‘Parthenon,’ has been studied and restored in minute detail as far as is permitted by the existing pieces, and the results are now conveniently collected in I.G. I.2, Nos. 248–92 b. For the first twenty years our information is fairly complete, but from 414/13 onwards the lists are much more fragmentary, particularly for the Parthenon-Treasures. The five pieces published here unfortunately take us only a little way towards establishing completer texts for any year: two belong to the Pronaos-records, the rest to those of the Hekatompedon, Nos. 1 and 2 to the years 433/2 and 411/10 of the former series, and Nos. 3, 4 and 5 to the years 427/6, 412/11 and 411/10 of the Hekatompedon-lists, respectively.
It will perhaps simplify reference to show in tabular form which stelai are preserved, in whole or in part, and which are totally lost from the lists of these two groups, from their beginning in 434/3 down to 407/6, when the objects in the Pronaos, with the single exception of a golden crown, were handed over by the treasurers concerned (Ηοι ταμίαι το̂ν ἠιερο̂ν χρεμάτον τε̂ς ᾿Αθεναίας) to the Hellenotamiai, and the Pronaos-records naturally come to an end.
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1 I wish to acknowledge the kindness of Dr. B. Leonardos, Ephor of the Epigraphical Museum, in permitting me to study and publish these fragments.
2 I.G. I.2, 255, ll. 26–29.
3 The Board appointed under the rule of the 400, holding office for four months, accounts for there being two boards of ταμίαι in the year 411/10.
4 The restorations for the numbers of the φιάλαι in I.2, 232, 233 and 234, proposed in my paper in J.H.S. 1911, pp. 31 ff., have not been fully accepted in the transcript in the new edition, though they are certainly correct.
5 To insert the name of the Secretary's father Αἴσχρονος would make the line consist of 58 letters.
6 As 104 φιάλαι weigh over 10,500 drs. in I.2, 232, 1. 7, 113 may be expected to weigh not less than 11,400. The lowest number which can occupy these five spaces is 
(11,502), and the highest probably is 
(11,700). Including these two, there are 13 possible sums which might have stood here.
7 As corrected in the Addenda, p. 303.
8 J.H.S. 1911, p. 31, 1.
9 For κιβοτός, cf. I.2, 330, 11. 1, 2, among furniture confiscated and sold by the Poletai, and once as a votive offering at Eleusis, ibid., 313, 1. 143. The traces on the stone here suggest rather 
but I cannot complete the word; and before κιβοτοῖ we should have expected ΕΓ not ΕΝ.
10 Ἐγένετο for ἐπεγένετο seems a likely slip, and the simplest way of accounting for the omission of two letters, indicated by the position of ΤΑΜ as letters 21–23 in this line. The insertion of the Ἐπ of Ἐπέτεια at the end of the previous line, as adopted in I.G. I., 117, seems most improbable.
11 On the other face is B.M. Inscr. I. 25 (= I.G. I.2, 240–243, the traditiones of 426/5–423/2 B.C.).
12 Cf. I.G. I.2, note ad loc., following Bannier, , Rhein. Mus. 1915, p. 405.Google Scholar
13 I assume that the entry ran ⃜ᾳδι ἀργυρίς not, as in I.2, 253, σταθμὸν ταύτες ΗΔΓΓ etc., i.e. 24, not 27 letters.
14 When this article was completed, I learned from Professor A. B. West, of the University of Cincinnati, that he had also studied this fragment and found its proper attribution. I am much indebted to him for withdrawing his claim to publish it on hearing that I had reached the same result.
15 J.H.S. 1911, pp. 37 f.
16 Op. cit. p. 39, init.
17 Until 419/18; after that year ταμίαις.
18 An even larger weight, involving the restoration of Χ before 
(= 1724 drs.) seems unlikely; if it should nevertheless have stood here, it would leave us only six spaces for the other two weights in this line.
19 In my restoration below I make the new line commence with κόρε, to avoid a multiplicity of queries.
20 There seems no room for the figures ║ which we should have expected here.