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A Stele Commemorating a Victory in a Boat-Race

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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When working last Spring in the Central Museum at Athens, my attention was arrested by a sculptured tablet having apparent reference to the Greek boat-races of which I have already treated in two papers in this Journal. This relief admits unfortunately of but partial explanation, but nevertheless, as it stands almost alone in its kind, I propose to publish it without waiting for more light on the subject.

The size of the whole stele is forty-one by twenty-six inches. All the middle part of it is blank: probably an inscription had been painted there which has now entirely disappeared. Had it survived, it would have explained the reliefs sculptured above and below it: as things are, we must explain these reliefs as best we can with the help of analogies. It is evident that they refer to a victory won in the boat-races at Athens; perhaps in one of those races of Ephebi at the festivals of Diisoteria, Aianteia, or Munychia which are spoken of in the Ephebic inscriptions.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1890

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References

page 146 note 1 Vol. ii. 90 and 315.

page 146 note 2 The well-known trireme-relief of the Acropolis of Athens is also probably part of a stele.

page 146 note 3 See vol. ii. 316, and the references there given.

page 148 note 1 Duemichen, Flotte einer ägyptischen Königin.

page 148 note 2 This relief has disappeared. It is figured in the Archäol. Zeitung, 1874, pl. 7; and Baumeister, 's Denkmäler, p. 1629.Google Scholar

page 148 note 3 As an instance in which the same man acts as steersman and as κελευστής see the ship of Odysseus, on a red-figured vase, M. d. I. I. 8Google Scholar.

page 150 note 1 Apologia, xxi. 5. Cf. Boeckh, , Public Economy of Athens (Eng. trans.) ii. 213Google Scholar.

page 150 note 2 Adv. Polyclem, p. 1220. Cf. Plutarch, , Demosthenes, c. 29.Google Scholar

page 150 note 3 ii. 83.