Fragmentary decrees from the Athenian agora (Hesperia Supplement 38)

117 Pages·2008·12.68 MB·English

by  Michael B. Walbank

38
Hesperia Supplement
FRAGMENTARY DECREES
FROM THE ATHENIAN AGORA
Michael B. Walbank
The American School Classical Studies at Athens
of
2008
? 2008
Copyright
The American School of
Classical Studies atA thens,
Princeton, New Jersey
All reserved.
rights
Cover illustration: Fragment of an honorific decree, Agora I 5771,
4th-3rd century B.C.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Walbank, Michael B, 1933
Fragmentary decrees from the Athenian agora /M ichael B. Walbank.
?
p. cm. (Hesperia supplement; 38)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-87661-538-6 (alk. paper)
1. Agora (Athens, Greece) 2. Inscriptions, Greek?Greece?Athens. 3. Athens
(Greece)?Antiquities. I. Title.
DF287.A23W35 2008
938'.5?dc22 2008029996
To them emory of
Benjamin Dean Meritt
1899-1989
and
Homer Armstrong Thompson
1906-2000
in and
gratitude affection
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am to the lateH omer A. Director Emeritus
deeply grateful Thompson,
of theA gora Excavations, and to the late Benjamin D. Meritt, who first
assigned these fragments tom e for study and publication. I am grateful, too,
to JohnM cK. Camp II, the current Field Director of theA gora Excava
tions, and toT . Leslie Shear Jr., the former Field Director, for granting me
permission tow ork at theA gora over the past several years. I thank also
Charalambos Kritzas, the formerD irector of the Epigraphic Museum in
Athens, for permission granted to me in 2001 and 2002 to study docu
ments held in that collection.
I am especially grateful to the late David M. Lewis, and to Geoffrey
Woodhead and Stephen Lambert. Others who have helped me with their
comments and suggestions on specific problems arising from thisw ork are
Sean Byrne, John Camp, Alan Henry, Angelos Matthaiou, Graham Oliver,
Michael Osborne, Ronald Stroud, Stephen Tracy, and John Traill.
All photographs are courtesy of theA gora Excavations; my thanks to
Craig Mauzy.
At the urging of the anonymous referees to whom this work was
submitted, I have kept speculation and restoration to a minimum. I thank
them for their comments and advice.
Five fragmentsw hose editionesprincipes appear here were also published
V. in 2003.1
by Stephen Tracy
l.AAM, pp. 38, 45-46, no. 1 (63, pp. 68-69, no. 2 (75); pp. 90-93, no. 3
fragmentb )\p p. 38, 46-48, no. 2 (50); (67); and pp. 104-107, no. 1 (39).
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xi
List of Editorial Symbols xv
The Texts 1
References 99
Concordance 101
Indexes
Names ofM en andW omen 103
and Their Families 104
Kings, Emperors,
The Athenian 104
Phylai
Demes and Other Social 104
Groups
and Locations inA thens and Attica 105
Buildings
and Places Attica 105
Peoples beyond
The Athenian Months 105
Gods, Heroes, and Festivals 105
Themes and Formulaic Phrases 106
Significant
Publications Cited 106
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Fragment of a decree, possibly a proxeny decree (1) 2
2. Fragment of the treaty of alliance between theA thenians and
the Kephallenians (2) 3
3. Fragment of a list of names (appended to a decree?) (3) 5
4. Fragment of the agreement between Athens and Troizen? (4) 5
5. Fragments of the agreement between Athens and Stymphalos
inA rkadia? (5) 8
6. Fragment of a decree (possibly a proxeny decree) (6) 9
7. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree, and part of a law
concerning theM ysteries of the Eleusinian Goddesses (7) 11
8. Fragments from the conclusion of a decree (8) 13
9. Fragment of a decree (9) 13
10. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree (10) 14
11. Fragment of a decree (11) 15
12. Fragment from the conclusion of an honorific decree (12) 15
13. Fragment of a decree (13) 16
14. Fragment of an honorific decree for Phyleus of Oinoe (14) 17
15. Fragment of a law concerning religious reforms (15) 18
16. Fragment of a decree (16) 19
17. Fragment of an honorific decree? (17) 20
18. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree (18) 21
19. Fragment from the conclusion of an honorific decree (19) 22
20. Fragment of a decree (20) 22
21. Fragment of a decree (21) 23
XII ILLUSTRATIONS
22. Fragment of a decree concerning epheboi (22) 24
23. Fragments of a decree perhaps concerning epheboi? (23) 26
24. Fragment of a decree (24) 27
25. Fragment of a proxeny decree for Sostratos ofH erakleia (25) 27
26. Fragments of a decree conferring citizenship? (26) 29
27. Fragment of a decree conferring citizenship (27) 29
28. Fragment of a decree (28) 30
29. Fragments of a decree (29) 31
30. Fragment of a decree concerning the repair of the fortification
walls ofA thens (30) 33
31. Fragment of a decree in honor of a citizen ofH erakleia? (31) 33
32. of a decree sacrifice and
Fragment concerning thanksgiving
for the successful campaign ofD emetrios Poliorketes (32) 35
33. Fragment of a decree conferring citizenship upon Neaios (33) 35
34. Fragment of a decree conferring citizenship (34) 36
35. Fragment of an honorific decree (35) 37
36. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree (36) 38
37. Fragment of an honorific decree (37) 39
38. Fragment of a decree (38) 40
39. Fragment of a decree (39) 41
40. Fragment of a decree (40) 41
41. Fragment of a decree conferring citizenship upon certain
Prienians (41) 42
42. Fragment from the conclusion of an honorific decree (42) 42
43. Fragment of an honorific decree (43) 44
44. of a decree the councillors from
Fragment honoring
Pandionis (44) 45
45. Fragment of a proxeny decree (45) 46
46. Fragment of a decree (46) 47
47. Fragment of a decree (47) 48
48. Fragment of a decree conferring citizenship (48) 49
49. Fragment of a decree (49) 49
50. Fragment of an honorific decree (50) 50
51. Fragment of an honorific decree (51) 51
ILLUSTRATIONS XIII
52. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree (52) 51
53. Fragment of a decree conferring citizenship (53) 52
54. Fragment of an honorific decree (54) 53
55. Fragment of a decree (55) 54
56. Fragment of a proxeny decree (56) 55
57. Fragment of a decree conferring citizenship (57) 56
58. Fragment of a decree (58) 56
59. Fragment of an honorific decree (59) 57
60. Fragment of a decree (reaffirming a grant of citizenship?) (60) 57
61. Fragment of an honorific decree (61) 58
62. Fragment of a decree (reaffirming a grant of citizenship?) (62) 59
63. Fragments of a decree (of the Phyle Antigonis?) (63) 61
64. Fragment of a decree (64) 63
65. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree, followed by a list
of names of members of the Phyle Leontis (65) 64
66. Fragment of a decree (66) 65
67. Fragment of a decree honoring the sitonai of 275/4 (67) 65
68. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree honoring the
taxiarchoi of 275/4 (68) 66
69. Fragment of a decree (69) 67
70. Fragment of a decree (70) 68
71. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree (71) 69
72. Fragment of an honorific decree (72) 70
73. Fragment of a decree (73) 70
74. Fragment of a decree (74) 71
75. Fragment of an honorific decree (75) 72
76. Fragment of a decree (76) 73
77. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree (77) 74
78. Fragment of a decree (78) 75
79. Fragment of a decree (79) 75
80. Fragment of a decree (reaffirming a grant of citizenship?) (80) 76
81. Fragment of a decree (of a deme?) (81) 77
82. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree conferring
citizenship (82) 79
XIV ILLUSTRATIONS
83. Fragment of a decree (83) 80
84. Fragment of a decree granting enktesis (84) 80
85. Fragment of a decree (85) 81
86. Fragment of a decree (concerning an embassy?) (86) 81
87. Fragment of a decree (87) 82
88. Fragment of a decree (88) 84
89. Fragment of a decree (89) 84
90. Fragment of a decree conferring citizenship (90) 85
91. Fragment of a decree (91) 87
92. Fragment from the conclusion of a prytany decree, followed
by a list of names of councillors (92) 89
93. Fragment from the conclusion of a decree (93) 89
94. Fragment of a decree (94) 90
95. Fragment of a decree (95) 91
96. Fragment of a decree (96) 92
97. Fragment of an honorific decree (97) 93
98. Fragment of a decree (reaffirming a grant of citizenship?) (98) 94
99. Fragment of a decree (99) 95
100. Fragment of a decree (100) 96
EDITORIAL SYMBOLS
The editorial symbols applied to these inscriptions follow those in Sterling
Dows Conventions inE diting: A SuggestedR eformulation oftheL eiden System
(Durham 1969), with one exception.
[ ] restoration
< > editorial correction
( ) resolution of abbreviation
{ } editorial deletion
T Greek letter
ambiguous
[....] lacuna of approximately four letters
[-] lacuna of unknown number of letters
[ ] correction by inscriber
Unlike Dow, I use underlining to indicate the text of a new fragment.
The following designation is also used:
+ The has been a new
original publication supplemented by frag
ment or there is a significant new reading or interpretation