Stephen V. Tracy

Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C.

Figures Abbreviations Preface Introduction PART I: ATHENIAN GOVENMENT AND THE MACEDONIAN KINGS Oligarchy versus Democracy: 338 to 262 B.C. Macedonian Domination: 262 to 229 B.C. PART II: ATTIC LETTER-CUTTERS OF 300 TO 229 B.C. List of Inscriptions Assigned Addenda to IG II2 1262 Cutter, ca. 320--ca. 290 B.C. Addenda to IG II2 650 Cutter, 318/7--283/2 B.C. Addenda to Agora I 4266 Cutter, ca. 304--271 B.C. IG II2 478 Cutter, 305/4--302/1 B.C. IG II2 657 Cutter, ca. 305--ca. 275 B.C. IG II2 689 Cutter, 305/4--ca. 270 B.C. Agora I 3238 and 4169 Cutter, 286/5--ca. 239 B.C. Agora I 6664 Cutter, 281/0--ca. 240 B.C. IG II2 776 Cutter, ca. 255--ca. 240 B.C. SEG II no. 9 Cutter, 250/1--ca. 240 B.C. IG II2 788 Cutter, ca. 260--ca. 235 B.C. Miscellanea Epigraphica Conclusion: Inscribers of the Years 300 to 229 B.C. Appendix One: Athenian Archons from 261/0 to 234/3 Appendix Two: Agora I 5392 + 3855 Index to Greek Texts Index of Passages Cited Index of Persons General Index Comparatio Numerorum Comparatio Numerorum to SEG

Two Attic Letter Cutters of the Third Century: 286/5-235/4 B. C.

THE TWO ARTISANS presented below were, if not the most productive, two of the most productive inscribers of decrees during the 3rd century.1 The first of these cutters was discussed in an article which I published fifteen years ago.2 Since then I have found enough other examples of his writing that I offer this second and, I hope, now quite complete dossier of his inscriptions. Identifying epigraphical hands is no easy matter. My method and criteria have been presented in detail in GRBS 11, 1970, pp. 321-328; Hesperia Supplement XV, The Lettering of an Athenian Mason, Princeton 1975, pp. 1-11, 90-95; and Studies Presented to Sterling Dow (Greek Roman and Byzantine Monograph 10) 1984, pp. 277-279 and, in consequence, are not repeated here. Archon dates during the period covered by this study are troublesome, particularly after 261.3 I have tended, for convenience, to accept the lists as published by B. D. Meritt in Historia 26, 1977, pp. 161-191 for the archons of 286/5 to 266/5 and in Hesperia 50,1981, pp. 94-96 for those of 265/4 to 235/4. Unless otherwise indicated a single date in parentheses will be that assigned to the archon by Meritt. Where necessary, I add alternative dates, cumbersome though it is to do so, in order to remind the inexperienced, and not only

An Athenian Decree of the Year 335/4 B.C.

T HE FIRST SEVEN LINES OF THIS TEXT were published by Benjamin D. Meritt.1 The decree first came to the present writers attention during the research for Athenian Democrag in Transition,2 for it was inscribed by one of the more prolific cutters in that study, the Cutter of IG 112 334.3 Permission to publish the stone in full has now been generously granted by the Greek Ministry of Culture.4 The decree is on a fragment of white marble in the Epigraphical Museum in Athens preserving part of the top and right side of the original stone. The circumstances of discovery are not recorded. It is 0.275 m high, 0.28 m wide, and 0.13 m thick. The height of the letters is 0.006-0.007 m; the checker is 0.011 xO.013m.

Ephebic Inscriptions from Athens: Addenda and Corrigenda

These two previously published fragments may be recognized from their lettering, moldings, marble, and texts as belonging to the same ephebic inscription. The first was published by B. D. Meritt in Hesperia 36, 1967, pp. 65-66 and the second, also by Meritt, in Hesperia 30, 1961, p. 224. Each contains part of the opening lines of the inscription. Inventory number I 560 should be placed directly to the right of I 6127. Looking at line 2, the gap between the fragments at that point is about eight or nine letter spaces. The space left for the day date in line 1 then will be five or six letters in length. The only correction of readings worthy of note is that the final two letters of line 1 in the publication of I 560 should be in square brackets; nu is the last letter preserved. The demotic of the chairman in line 3 is the same as that preserved in Kerameikos III A3, pp. 2_3,2 a prytany decree of the year of Hipparchos (1 19/8).3 This fact, the month of passage, Boedromion, and the major meeting of the assembly all make it certain that this ephebic decree was passed at the same session as the prytany decree. It is therefore now possible to restore the first two lines of the ephebic inscription as follows (for the rest of the text see Meritts version in Hesperia volumes 30 and 36 cited above):