| I Panhellenes at Methone II | Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes | Edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos Scientific Committee Alberto Bernabé · Margarethe Billerbeck Claude Calame · Philip R. Hardie · Stephen J. Harrison Stephen Hinds · Richard Hunter · Christina Kraus Giuseppe Mastromarco · Gregory Nagy Theodore D. Papanghelis · Giusto Picone Kurt Raaflaub · Bernhard Zimmermann Volume 44 | III Panhellenes at Methone | Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE) Edited by Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin and Yannis Tzifopoulos IV | ISBN 978-3-11-050127-8 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-051569-5 e-ISBN (E-Pub) 978-3-11-051467-4 ISSN 1868-4785 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Typesetting: jürgen ullrich typosatz, 86720 Nördlingen Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Table of Contents | IX Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface | V Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin and Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos Introduction | 1 Part I: Graphê and archaeology Antonis Kotsonas, Evangelia Kiriatzi, Xenia Charalambidou, Maria Roumpou, Noémi Suzanne Müller and Matthaios Bessios Transport amphorae from Methone: An interdisciplinary study of production and trade ca 700 BC | 9 Nota Kourou The archaeological background of the earliest graffiti and finds from Methone | 20 John K. Papadopoulos To Write and to Paint: More Early Iron Age Potters’ Marks in the Aegean | 36 Samuel Verdan Counting on Pots? Reflections on Numerical Notations in Early Iron Age Greece | 105 Alan Johnston Texts and Amphoras in the Methone “Ypogeio” | 123 Part II: Graphê, alphabet, dialect, and language Richard Janko From Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the rise of the Greek alphabet | 135 Francesca Dell’Oro Alphabets and Dialects in the Euboean Colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia or What Could Have Happened in Methone | 165 X | Table of Contents Roger D. Woodard Alphabet and Phonology at Methone: Beginning a Typology of Methone Alphabetic Symbols and an Alternative Hypothesis for Reading hακεσάνδρō | 182 Christina Skelton Thoughts on the initial aspiration of HAKEΣANΔPO | 219 Anna Panayotou-Triantaphyllopoulou The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone on Understanding the Development of Early Euboean Alphabet | 232 Julián Méndez Dosuna Methone of Pieria: a Reassessment of Epigraphical Evidence (with a Special Attention to Pleonastic Sigma) | 242 Part III: Graphê and culture Niki Oikonomaki Local ‘Literacies’ in the Making: Early Alphabetic Writing and Modern Literacy Theories | 261 Alexandra Pappas Form Follows Function? Toward an Aesthetics of Early Greek Inscriptions at Methone | 285 Marek Węcowski Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet. Early Greek Vase-Inscriptions and the Symposion | 309 Bibliography and Abbreviations | 329 Notes on Contributors | 359 General Index | 365 Index Locorum | 367 neue rechte Seite 232 | Anna Panayotou-Triantaphyllopoulou ___ Anna Panayotou-Triantaphyllopoulou ___ ___ The Impact of Late Geometric Greek ___ Inscriptions from Methone on ___ ___ Understanding the Development of Early * ___ Euboean Alphabet ___ Anna Panayotou-Triantaphyllopoulou ___ The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone ___ Abstract: Late Geometric inscriptions from Methone are written in Euboean al- ___ phabet as it is shown by the comparison with contemporary similar inscriptions ___ from Eretria and its colonies. The few dialectal features in the inscriptions of ___ Methone may point to the Euboean dialect: aspiration (no. 1); lack of vowel ___ compensatory lengthening after the presumably early loss of /w/ in the cluster – ___ nw- (Methone Pierias I, no. 22); uncontracted genitive masculine in –eos ___ (Methone Pierias I, no. 4). ___ ___ ___ 1. According to a literary testimony (Plutarch, Greek Questions 293b), Methone ___ in Pieria was a colony founded by Eretrians expelled from Corcyra, where they ___ had attempted unsuccessfully to establish themselves on their way to the West. ___ When they tried to go back home, they were chased, literally they were ‘driven ___ away by the slings’ (ἀποσφενδόνητοι), by their own fellow-citizens. Subse- ___ quently, they were established on the western coast of the Thermaic Gulf,1 in ca. ___ 733 BC.2 According to the excavations conducted in the area since 2003, already ___ in the last quarter of the eighth century BC, this coastal settlement was a major ___ production center and port town, and maintained extensive trade connections ___ with the regions inland, other sites on the Thermaic Gulf, and northern, central ___ _____ ___ * It is my pleasure to congratulate the colleagues Yannis Tzifopoulos, Matthaios Bessios, and ___ Antonis Kotsonas to whom we owe an exemplary excavation, a thorough study, the publication ___ without delay of the important material from Methone’s ‘Ypogeio’, and the organization of the ___ international conference “Panhellenes at Methone” aiming at the dissemination of the results ___ of their study and further discussion. I would like to thank the members of the organizing ___ committee and the staff of the Centre for the Greek Language for the generous hospitality in dif- ___ ficult circumstances. I also express my gratitude to my colleague Mr. Eutychios Eutychiou for helping me with the elaboration of Table 2. ___ 1 In fact, Euboeans settled at numerous sites on the Thermaic Gulf during the Late Geometric, ___ Archaic and Classical Periods, where they founded colonies and emporia: see Soueref 2009, ___ 348, note 6, with previous bibliography. ___ 2 Tzifopoulos in Methone Pierias I, 19–20. The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone | 233 ___and eastern Aegean, as manifested through imported pottery. The excavations ___revealed the city center of Methone. Inscribed Late Geometric pottery was exca- ___vated in the ‘Ypogeio’, a large subterranean structure that remained unfinished, ___whose filling is dated in the period 740–690 BC. 3 Inscribed pottery was discov- ___ered in the ‘Ypogeio’; 23 vases or sherds bear alphabetic inscriptions and marks ___dated to the above mentioned period, i.e. the early phases of the colony. Some ___136 vessels and sherds of the same date bear non-alphabetic marks. ___ My starting-point for the examination of the local script was the tradition ___transmitted by Plutarch about the foundation of Methone by Eretrians, and the ___well-known close relation between a mother-city and her colonies, expressed ___normally by the use of the same alphabet and of the same dialect.4 A compari- ___son of the eighth/seventh century vase inscriptions on imported and locally ___made pottery from the ‘Ypogeio’ was attempted with contemporary inscriptions ___and marks on vases from Eretria (from the sanctuary of Apollo Daphnephoros or ___elsewhere),5 or with inscribed pottery from the Euboean colonial area (either ___apoikiai or emporia), from Pithekoussai,6 settled by both Chalcidians and Ere- ___rians, or from Cumae in Campania, a mid-eighth century foundation of Pithe- ___koussai.7 ___ ___2. Although the identification of the alphabet is not always conclusive, either ___because the graffiti incised after firing on vases are very short, or because they ___do not contain any or enough diagnostic letters, let us examine the Late Geo- ___metric inscribed material. Table 1 summarizes information about possible ___provenance of the vase, whether inscriptions were written before or after firing, ___direction of the script, kind of inscription, and some remarks on the content. ___Numbering of the inscribed vessels, provenance, and dating are given after Tzi- ___fopoulos 2012a, nos. 1–22. I left deliberately aside three inscribed sherds from ___the same find spot, which are dated in the seventh/sixth century BC or still later ___(nos. 23–25). ___ ___ ________ ___3 Bessios in Methone Pierias I. ___4 Jeffery 1990, 18–19. A close parallel in the region is Potidaea, founded ca. 600 BC by Corinth. ___Potidaea not only used the same alphabet and dialect as Corinth, but was the promoter of its ___diffusion in the Thermaic Gulf during Late Archaic Period. In the aftermath of the Persian Wars, Potidaea joined the Delian League; and the new political development brought an end to ___ the use of the Corinthian alphabet in the region: see Panayotou 1996, 133, 135, 143. ___ 5 Kenzelmann Pfyffer/Theurillat/Verdan 2005. ___6 Bartonĕk/Buchner 1995. ___7 Jeffery 1990, 235. 234 | Anna Panayotou-Triantaphyllopoulou ___ Table 1 ___ ___ Locally Imported Pottery Inscribed Incised Interpretation Date ___ made pottery of unknown before after (BC) ___ pottery provenance firing firing ___ 1 Lesbian √ ← Φιλίōνος 8/7 ε̄̓ ___ drinking μί. Owner’s cup inscription ___ ___ 2 Euboean √ ← Sympotic 8/7 skyphos inscription of ___ Ἁκέσανδρος ___ with proprie- ___ tary formula ___ plus a metric ___ curse formula ___ 3 Thermaic √ ← ΕΠΙΓΕ[ 8/7 ___ Gulf little Fragmentary ___ skyphos owner’s inscription? ___ ___ 4 Lesbian √ Ἀντεϙύδεος → 8/7 amphora Owner’s ___ inscription ___ ___ 5 Amphora √ ⊕Ε☼ → 8/7 Abbreviated ___ name? ___ Dedication? ___ 6 Attic √ ← Fragmen- 8/7 ___ amphora tary ___ 7 Euboean √ ← ]ΟΕΜ[ 8/7 ___ skyphos Fragmentary ___ owner’s ___ inscription? ___ 8 Euboean √ ← ΡΙ[ 8/7 ___ skyphos Fragmentary ___ 9 Am- √ ← ΑΛ 8/7 ___ phora8 Abbreviation ___ of the owner’s ___ name or a trademark?9 ___ ___ _____ ___ 8 For these locally produced amphorae see Kοτσώνας 2012, 150–154. ___ 9 Cf. Johnston 2006, 50, mark no. 14A. The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone | 235 ___ Locally Imported Pottery Inscribed Incised Interpretation Date ___ made pottery of unknown before after (BC) ___ pottery provenance firing firing ___10 Thermaic √ ← ϜΑ 8/7 ___ Gulf Abbreviation ___ skyphos of the owner’s ___ name or a trademark? ___ ___11 Thermaic √ ← Ε[ 8/7 Gulf Fragmentary.