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Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections British Museum Ephebic Monuments Stephen Lambert AIUK VOLUME BRITISH 4.3B MUSEUM 2020 AIUK Volume 4.3B Published 2020 AIUK is an AIO Papers series ISSN 2054-6769 (Print) ISSN 2054-6777 (Online) Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections is an open access AIUK publication, which means that all content is available without Attic Inscriptions charge to the user or his/her institution. You are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the in UK Collections full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from either the publisher or the author. C b n a This paper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence. Original copyright remains with the contributing author and a citation should be made when the article is quoted, used or referred to in another work. Cover image: © The Trustees of the British Museum This paper is part of a systematic publication of all the Attic inscriptions in UK collections by Attic Inscriptions Online as part of a research project supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): AH/P015069/1. PRINCIPAL PROJECT AIO ADVISORY INVESTIGATOR TEAM BOARD Peter Liddel Josine Blok Stephen Lambert Polly Low Peter Liddel Robert Pitt Polly Low Finlay McCourt Angelos P. Matthaiou Irene Vagionakis S. Douglas Olson P.J. Rhodes For further information see atticinscriptions.com Contents CONTENTS Contents i Preface ii Abbreviations iv 1. Athenian Ephebic Catalogues In The British Museum 1 1. Overview of the Inscriptions 1 2. Collection History 2 3. Lettering and Other Graphic Features 4 2. The Inscriptions 6 1 Catalogue of Names 6 2 Ephebic Monument 11 3 Ephebic Monument 16 4 Ephebic Monument 19 5 Ephebic Monument 22 Concordance 37 i Preface PREFACE Part 3B of our new edition of the Attic inscriptions in the British Museum covers the five inscriptions in the collection which are or may be from monuments commemorating the participation of young men in the ephebate, the programme of military training and education that is one of the most richly documented institutions of Hellenistic and Roman Athens. This type of inscription also features in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which we are publishing at the same time as this volume, as AIUK 11, edited by Christopher de Lisle. It became apparent to both of us while working on these inscriptions that there was a pressing need for a publication which supplied an epigraphical and historical overview of the Athenian ephebate in the Roman period, and which would both be informed by, and provide context for, our new editions. Such an overview, authored by de Lisle, is also published at the same time as this volume, as AIO Papers 12. As usual, our AIUK volumes are supplemented by publications of the inscriptions with lighter annotation on the main AIO site aimed at museum visitors, both real and virtual. In addition, AIO Papers 12 is supplemented by editions on the main site of a selection of other key ephebic inscriptions of Roman Athens, also edited and translated by de Lisle. We hope the reader will find it helpful in tracing a path through this forest of material that all of these publications, or sets of publications, are connected by liberal use of hyperlinks. As in other parts of our publication of the British Museum’s collection, it is fitting both to express admiration for the work of Edward Hicks, but also to register the distance scholarship has travelled since his 1874 edition of this material in GIBM I. All five of these inscriptions were included in Hicks’ edition, but two of the five (1 and 5) have since been discovered to be parts of the same inscriptions as fragments still in Athens; one of them (1), dated by Hicks “not earlier than the second century AD” has since been shown to belong to the second century BC; Robert Pitt has discovered that, while it was still in Athens, 3 was copied by the mid-eighteenth century physician, Anthony Askew, enabling several of the names on it to be read more fully; and subsequent work on the ephebic inscriptions of Roman Athens, including most recently that of de Lisle, has transformed our capacity to understand this genre of inscriptions in their historical context. As usual, I have accumulated many debts of gratitude in preparing this volume: pride of place academically goes to Chris de Lisle and Robert Pitt, the extent of whose contributions will be obvious from the number of times I refer to them. The two anonymous reviewers also made invaluable comments on a draft, as did Mike Edwards, Peter Liddel and P. J. Rhodes. I also gratefully acknowledge once again the support of the British Museum staff, especially Peter Higgs, Alexandra Villing, and Alex Truscott; the British School at Athens and the Seminar für Alte Geschichte of the University of Heidelberg for help of many kinds, including enabling access to their excellent libraries at times in 2020 when, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, library access was not possible in the UK; and in particular Nicolai Futás in Heidelberg and Katharine Donaldson in Athens for bibliographical assistance, including during “lockdown”. I thank Alex Truscott for assistance in double-checking readings from the stones when the BM was inaccessible to researchers in autumn 2020. Last but not least, I thank my brother, Julian, for the ii Preface photograph at fig. 2.1, and Irene Vagionakis for her continuing indispensable contributions behind the scenes. As in previous parts of this edition of the Attic inscriptions in the BM, I give an indication of the location of each inscription within the Museum at the time when I carried out my autopsy. Also as in previous volumes I do not explore in detail the early publication history of the inscriptions except where it bears on findspots or collection history. I indicate the source of Boeckh’s information about an inscription in brackets after the relevant CIG reference; * indicates that a work contains further references to early bibliography. iii Abbreviations ABBREVIATIONS I use the abbreviations for epigraphical works listed at https://www.atticinscriptions.com/browse/bysource/ and in addition: APF: J. K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families (1971) Athenian Onomasticon: seangb.org Balzat 2019: J.-S. Balzat, “Roman Names and Naming Practices in Greek Poleis”, in R. Parker ed., Changing Names. Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics, 217-36 Biris 1940: Κ. E. Biris (Κ. Η. Μπίρης), Αἱ ἐκκλησίαι τῶν παλαιῶν Ἀθηνῶν Byrne, RCA: S. G. Byrne, Roman Citizens of Athens (2003) Camia 2014: F. Camia, “Political Elite and Priestly Posts in Athens During the Roman Imperial Period: Some Considerations”, ZPE 188, 139-48 Camia 2017a: F. Camia, “Priests in Roman Greece: in Search of a Social Perspective”, in A. D. Rizakis, F. Camia, S. Zoumbaki eds., Social Dynamics under Roman Rule. Mobility and Status Change in the Provinces of Achaia and Macedonia, 349-70 Camia 2017b: F. Camia, “Cultic and Social Dynamics in the Eleusinian Sanctuary Under the Empire”, in E. Muñiz Grijalvo, J. M. Cortés Copete, F. Lozano Gómez eds., Empire and Religious Change in Greek Cities under Roman Rule, 45-66 CIG: A. Boeckh ed., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (I [including Attica] 1828, II 1843, III [with J. Franz] 1853, IV Indices [H. Roehl] 1877) Combe 1815: T. Combe, A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum Conze 1864: A. Conze, “Museographisches”, Archäologisher Anzeiger zur Archäologischen Zeitung 22 (Feb. 1864), 161-76 Cook 1985: B. F. Cook, The Townley Marbles Cook 1987: B. F. Cook, Greek Inscriptions de Lisle 2020: “The Ephebate in Roman Athens: Outline and Catalogue of Inscriptions”, AIO Papers 12 Ellis 1846: H. Ellis, The Townley Gallery of Classic Sculpture in the British Museum Follet 1976: S. Follet, Athènes au IIe et au IIIe siècle: études chronologiques et prosopographiques Hicks, GIBM I: E. L. Hicks, Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum. Part 1 Attika (1874) IG III: W. Dittenberger, ed., Inscriptiones Atticae aetatis Romanae (I 1878, II 1882, III R. Wünsch ed., Defixionum tabellae in Attica regione repertae, 1897) Kaltsas 2002: N. Kaltsas, Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Translated by D. Hardy Le Bas and Waddington: P. Le Bas et W. H. Waddington, Voyage archéologique en Grèce et en Asie Mineure fait par ordre du gouvernement Français pendant les années 1843 et 1844. 2: Inscriptions grecques et latines recueillies en Grèce et en Asie Mineure. 1: Attique Liddel and Low 2019: P. Liddel and P. Low, “Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Collector) from the World Museum, Liverpool”, in C. F. Noreña and N. iv Abbreviations Papazarkadas eds., From Document to History. Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World, 408-30 Perrin 2007: E. Perrin-Saminadayar, Education, culture et société à Athènes: les acteurs de la vie culturelle athénienne (229-88): un tout petit monde Perrin 2013: E. Perrin-Saminadayar, “Stratégies collectives, familiales et individuelles en oeuvre au sein de l’éphébie attique: l’instrumentalisation d’une institution publique (IIIe s. av. J.-C.- IIe s. apr. J.-C.)”, in P. Fröhlich and P. Hamon eds., Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle apr. J.-C.), 159-75 Pitt forthcoming: R. Pitt, The Travels and Epigraphic Manuscript of Dr. Anthony Askew Poulou 2016: T. Poulou, “Giovanni Battista Lusieri, Lord Elgin’s Unknown Agent and his Excavations in Athens”, in F. Mallouchou-Tufano and A. Malikourti eds., 200 Years the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum: New Contributions to the Issue, 62-81 Rubinstein et al. 1991: L.