An Introduction to Greek epigraphy. Part II. The Inscriptions of Attica, edited by E.S. Roberts ... and E.A. Gardner ...

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AN INTRODUCTION
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GREEK EPIGRAPHY
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:
AN INTRODUCTION
TO
GREEK EPIGRAPHY
PART
II
THE INSCRIPTIONS OF ATTICA
EDITED BY
E. S. ROBERTS, M.A.
MASTER OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE
AND
GARDNER,
E. A. M.A.
YATES PROFESSOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
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LATE FELLOW OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE,
AND FORMERLY DIRECTOR OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ATHENS
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PEEFACE.
The present volume, for which the two persons whose names are
undersigned are jointly responsible, is in continuation of the plan
outlined in the Preface to Part I of the Introduction to Greek
Epigraphy edited by E. S. Roberts in 1887. The design of this
work was that of a Handbook to a complete Corpus Inscriptionum
Graecarum. Part I dealt mainly with the history of the Greek
alphabets in the period ending with the closing years of the fifth
century B.C. and was illustrated by inscriptions from all localities of
the Greek world. The volume now edited contains a representative
selection of Attic inscriptions and follows closely the arrangement
of the Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum. For this purpose the work
of collecting the material both for text and for commentary was to a
great extent completed by the editor of Part I before the collabora-
tion began. In so far as the work may be justified by its usefulness,
the editors have hopes that others may be induced to extend the
plan so as to cover the whole range of the volumes henceforward to
be known as Inscriptiones Graecae, about which a few words are
said below.
The study of Greek Inscriptions at this day needs no defence.
Though we may be warned by those who would minimise the
importance of this branch of letters that its evil tendency is " to
encourage the habit of conjecture" and that it induces a "temptation
to convert the uncertain and indefinite into the definite and certain,"
yet these are faults of which we are less and less likely to be guilty,
as the monuments are multiplied and the ground of inference becomes
safer and the basis of proof is extended. And if we concede that in
such an inscription as that of the Ta£i<» —<j>6pov (no. 17) and the long
series of Quota Lists, of which nos. 106 108 are types, we have a
singularly incomplete record of the Athenian system of tribute, yet it
is no slight compensation that these Quota Lists parade before us the
greatness of the Athenian Empire more vividly than the continuous
narrative even of a Thucydides. If inscriptions bring nearer home
PREFACE.
viii
Vol.
Fasc. ii. Inscriptiones Lesbi Nesi Tenedi.
W. Paton. 1899.
Fasc. in. Inscriptiones Symes Teudussae
Teli Nisyri Astypalaeae Anaphes Therae et
Therasiae Pholegandri Meli Cimoli. F.
Hiller de Gaertringen. 1898.
Fasc. iv. Inscriptiones Coi et Calymni.
Fasc. v. Inscriptiones Cycladum.
Parsprior. Inscriptiones Cycladumprae-
ter Tenum. F. Hiller de Gaertringen.
1903.
Pars altera. Inscriptiones Teni insulae.
Indices.
Fasc. vi. Inscriptiones Chii et Sami.
Fasc. vn. Inscriptiones Amorgi.
Fasc. viii. Inscriptiones insularum maris
Thracici et Hellesponti.
Fasc. ix. Inscriptiones Euboeae.
IG xiii xiii Inscriptiones Cretae.
IG xiv xiv Inscriptiones Siciliae etItaliae additisgraecis IGSI
Galliae Hispaniae Britanniae Germaniae
inscriptionibus. G. Kaibel. 1890.
Even this long list does not include the inscriptions of Asia Minor
and of Egypt1. And as in 1877 it was decided to furnish with
Indices and to abandon any idea of completing on the existing plan
the original Corpus Inscrip>tionum Graecarum of August Boeckh
and, instead, to undertake the enterprise of re-editing the whole
store of ever-multiplying texts; so again we learn that in 1903 it
was determined to bring to a premature completion the Corpus
Inscriptionum Atticarum and to issue no further Supplemented If
an apology were needed for fresh editions of Selections on a reasoned
plan and intended for purposes of orientation, it would be found in
the confessed inability of the great scholars to grapple with the
overwhelming mass of their material.
In the printing of the texts restored portions appear in Clarendon
type as in Part I, and these portions have been enclosed in square
brackets. Occasionally within the square brackets a letter or letters
are given in ordinary type when so much of the letter survives on
the stone as to leave no possible doubt of the form originally en-
graved. Letters in curved brackets are substituted for forms which
are on the stone, but obviously due to the engraver's error. Angular
1 Of these we have a foretaste in the recently published Orientis Graeci
Inscriptiones Selectae of W. Dittenberger, To students of later Greek history
Dittenberger's work is little short of indispensable.