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Notes on some Greek Inscriptions, mainly in Athens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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This paper contains some notes on miscellaneous inscriptions of which all but two are in Athens. The two exceptions are, firstly, the Ἀστραγαλομαντϵία inscription at Adalia, of which I publish a copy which will, I trust, be found more accurate than any of the previous versions; and, secondly, a recently discovered inscription from Northern Phocis dating probably from the end of the second, or the beginning of the third, century A.D. The remainder of the paper is devoted to some corrections in previously published copies of inscriptions in the Acropolis Museum.

During a recent visit to Adalia (Attalia) in Pamphylia I copied again the well-known Ἀστραγαλομαντϵία inscription which is built into a wall there in one of the streets not far from the harbour; and it seems worth while to publish here the text of the inscription in minuscules, with a few critical notes. The most accessible copy of the stone is that given in Kaibel, Epigrammata Graeca No. 1038, but it is very faulty, and since that work was published other copies of the same inscription, or of similar inscriptions which are almost identically worded, have been found in Asia Minor. The most complete version was found by Sterrett at Ördekji (Anabura) in Pisidia (Papers of the American School at Athens, iii. [The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor] pp. 206–214; Hermes xiii. pp. 532 foll.), and enabled many of the previously uncertain readings on the Adalia stone to be cleared up; and a fragmentary inscription of the same class which is in places identical with that at Adalia was found at Aghlasun (Sagalassus) in Pisidia more recently.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1910

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1 First published by Hirschfeld, , Berlin. Akad. Sitzungsber. 1875, p. 716Google Scholar. See also Kaibel, Epigrammata Graeca, No. 1038; Hermes, x. pp. 192 foll.; Rhein. Mus. vii. p. 251.

2 Städte Pamphyliens und Pisidiens… herausgegeben von Karl Grafen Lanckoronski (Wien, 1892), ii. pp. 220 foll.

3 Loc. cit.

4 Op. cit. p. 213, 1. 21.

5 I wish to acknowledge his kindness in allowing me to publish it here, and to make use of his copy and impression of the stone.

6 I.G. ix. 1, No. 218, and references ibid.; Boeckh, published it with a commentary on the titles and offices held by the recipient in C.I.G. 1738Google Scholar. The same man seems to be mentioned in an inscription from Anticyra, , I.G. ix. 1Google Scholar, No. 8, which Dittenberger (loc. cit.) attributes to the reign of Septimius Severus or Caracalla.

7 I.G. vii. No. 3426.

8 See Sybel, , Katalog, 6154Google Scholar, for full bibliography. In Bull. dell. Inst. 1859, p. 197, where it was first published, the copy gives ΛΑΚΙΑΔΗΝ in l. 2; it should be ΛΑΚΙΑΔΗΣ.

9 In reviewing Wilhelm's, recently published Beiträge zur griechischen Inschriftenkunde, in Berliner philologische Wochenschrift, 1910, No. 1, p. 8Google Scholar, Ziebarth points out that the name here is to be restored [᾿Αμφ]ήριτον a name which is actually found at Oreus, and has been discussed together with similar names in Wilhelm's, Urkunden dramat. Aufführungen, p. 90Google Scholar. This evidence I had totally overlooked in publishing the present inscription. We may therefore, as Ziebarth suggests, restore ἐπαινέ σα[ι] δὲ . . . . . . . καὶ ᾿ Αμφ]ήριτον κ.τ.λ.