Inscriptions: The Funerary Monuments (Athenian Agora 17)

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by  Donald W. Bradeen

THE ATHENIANAG ORA
RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS
CONDUCTED BY
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS
VOLUME XVII
INSCRIPTIONS
THE FUNERARY MONUMENTS
BY
DONALD W. BRADEEN
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
1974
PUBLISHED WITH THE AID OF A GRANT FROM THE LOUISE TAFT SEMPLE
FUND OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
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PREFACE
T he objecto f this studyi s to bringt ogetheri n one volumea ll the funeraryin scriptionfso undo r cata-
loguedd uringt he Excavationo f the AthenianA goraf rom the beginningi n 1931t hrough1 968,i .e,.
up to I 7047. Those inscriptionsw ith highern umbersw hichh ave been includedh ere eitherw eref ound
later amongm arblesf rom earliere xcavationso r are publicc asualtyl ists. In the latterg roupI have pre-
sented,w ith the kind permissiono f ProfessorT . Leslie Shear,J r., Field Directoro f the Agora Excava-
tions, all fragmentsf ound to date in the expandede xcavationsi,n ordert hat the seriesm ay be as com-
plete as possible.I have also, in this section,i ncludeda ll fragmentso f each monumento f whicha piece
from the Agora survives.I have not, howevert, riedt o give a completea ccounto f the texts from outside
the Agora; detailso n these will be found in the thirde ditiono f InscriptionesG raecae, I.
A greatm ajorityo f the inscriptionsin this corpush ave been publishedb efore,s ome by K. Pittakysi n
the nineteenthc entury,o ver 250 by J. Kirchneri n LG., 111,t hirty-fourb y W. Peek in A.G., II, and the
majorityb y B. D. Meritti n Hesperia. I owe and gratefullya cknowledgea greatd ebt to these scholars.I
have, however,s tudiede ach inscriptiona gain, and in some cases it has been possiblet o improveu pon
the readingso f my predecessorsO. f the 238 unpublishedin scriptionsin cludedh ere,m ost are very frag-
mentary.M y criterionf or inclusionw as the existenceo f a sure name, ethnic, or demotic.T he few in-
scriptionsw ith less than this (e.g., nos. 1018-1023)h ave been includedo nly becauset hey werep ublished
previously.
It has beent he establishedp olicyi n the publicationo f inscriptionfsr omt he AthenianA gorat o present
a photographo f every stone. In this volume,t herefore,a re includedw heneverp ossiblei llustrationso f
all inscriptionso f whichn o photographh as appearedp reviouslyS. ince,h owever,i t is also the policyn ot
to repeati n thesec orpusv olumesi llustrationas lreadya vailableo, nly thosep iecesn ot otherwiseil lustrated
are includedi n the plates.
I should like to expressm y gratitudet o the many scholarsw ho have helped me in this endeavor,
especiallyB . D. Meritt, Mrs. Lucy Shoe Meritt, H. A. Thompson,D . M. Lewis, R. A. Moysey, J. S.
Traill, A. G. Woodhead,a nd E. Vanderpool.I am also indebtedf or financiala id to the Louise Taft
SempleF und of the Universityo f Cincinnatia nd to the Institutef or AdvancedS tudy,w hicha lso pro-
vided me with its unequaledf acilitiesf or study.A bove all I wish to thankm y wife, MaryL ou, without
whose help, patience,a nd encouragementth is projectw ould neverh ave been completed.
DONALDW . BRADEEN
Universityo f Cincinnati
November,1 971
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGES
PR EFACE.............................................................................. V
ABBREVIATIONSA ND BIBLIOGRAPHY. ..................................................... iX
I. INTRODUCTIO.N... ................................................................ 1
II. PUBLICF uNERA MONUMENTS. ..................................................... 3
III. PRIVATEF UNERALM ONUMENTS. .................................................... 35
A . ATHENIAN.S.. ................................................................. 35
B. ISOTELSE ..................................................................... 90
C. FOREIGNER...S.. ...................... ...... .... .......................... 91
D. PERSONSO F UNKNOWNO RIGIN .................................................. 132
E. POETRY LACKING THE NAMEO F THE DECEASED ..................................... 178
F . VA RIA ........................................................................ 185
G. LATN AND BILINGUAL. ......................................................... 186
H. CHRISTIAN ............................................. 188
I. UNEDITEDF RAGMENTS.. ......................................................195
1. COLUMNAMRO NUMENT..S.. .................................................. 195
2. STELAAI NDO THERM O NUMENT.S... ........................................... 198
CONCORDANC..E...S.. ...................... ................ ....................... 201
A. AGORA INVENTORYN UMBERS .................................................... 201
B. PREVIOUSLYP UBLISHEDI NSCRIPTIONSS TUDIED AND CITED ............................206
INDI CES.. ... ... ................................... .... ... ...... ... .............. 212
PLATES
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A.J.A. --A mericanJ ournalo f Archaeology.
A.J.P. = AmericanJ ournalo f Philology.
A.T.L. = B. D. Meritt,H . T. Wade-Gery,a nd M. F. McGregor,T heA thenianT ributeL ists, 4 v., Cambridge,
Mass. and Princeton,1 939-1953.
Ann.E pig. = L'anneee pigraphiquer:e vued esp ublicationesp igraphiquerse lativesa l'antiquiter omaine.
Anz. Wien.= Anzeigerd er Akademied er Wissenschafteinn Wien,p hilosophisch-historiscKhlea sse.
Arch.A nz. = ArchaologischeArn zeiger,B eiblattz umJ ahrbuchd es deutschena rchdologischeInn stituts.
'Apx. TT6vT=. 'ApXEToTvO '6vov.
Ath. Mitt. = Mitteilungend es deutschena rchdologischeInn stituts,A thenischeA bteilung.
Avi-Yonah, Abbreviation=s M. Avi-Yonah, Abbreviationisn GreekI nscriptions( The Near East, 200 B.C. -
A.D. 1100),L ondon, 1940.
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Bul. t.cole Fr. = Bulletind e l'ecolef ranaise d'Athenes.
C.L.G=. A. B6ckh, CorpusI nscriptionumG raecarum4, v., Berlin, 1828-1877.
C.Q. = ClassicalQ uarterly.
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AEAriov= 'ApXqao?oyiKOVA E\rTov.
'Eq).' Apx. _= 'EprK iEpi'sA pxaloXoylKii.
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Hansen, Riicklaufiges Worterbuc=h B. Hansen, RuiickldufigeWs orterbuchd er GriechischenE igennamenB, e-
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historischeK lasse, CII, 4, Berlin, 1957.
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.LG.,I 2 = InscriptioneGs raecae,I , editio minor, InscriptioneAs tticaeE uclidisa nnoa nteriorese, d. F. Hiller von
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ed. U. Koehler, Berlin, 1877-1893.
.LG.,I I2 - InscriptionesG raecae, lI-III, editio minor, InscriptionesA tticae Euclidis anno posteriores,e d.
J. Kirchner, Berlin, 1913-1940.
I.G.,I II = InscriptioneGs raecaeI, II, InscriptioneAs tticaeA etatisR omanaee, d. W. DittenbergerB, erlin,1 878-
1882.
J.H.S. = Journal of Hellenic Studies.
Jahrb.f . cl. Phil. = Jahrbiicherf iir classische Philologie.
Jeffery, L.S.A.G. = L. H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, Oxford, 1961.
Kadmos = Kadmos, Zeitschriftf iir vor- undfriihgriechischeE pigraphik.
Kaibel, G., EpigrammataG raeca ex lapidibusc onlecta, Berlin, 1878.
Keil, C. A. K., OnomatologiG raeci Specimen, Leipzig, 1840.
Kirchner, J., "Das Gesetz des Demetrios von Phaleron zur Einschriinkung des Graiberluxus,"D ie Antike, XV,
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I
INTRODUCTION
Of the moret atnh a7enx0e70 00ii0 nn0ss ccaricprtiipotniosffoon uus nndd dduurriinngg excavthaeti ono f theA thenianA gorab etween1 931
and 1968o vero ne-fourtha ref unerary.M1 ost of thesec amet o lightd uringt he demolitiono f modern
houses and so are fragmentaryT. he majorityf all into three main categories:( a) public casualtyl ists,
primarilyo f the fifth centuryB .C.; (b) the familiarc olumnarm onumentsi, mposedu pon the Athenians
by Demetrioso f Phaleronb ut usedu ntilt he end of antiquity;( c) stelai,p lain,o rnamentedo, r sculptured.
Fragmentso f the firstt wo classesa re easy to recognize,t he firstb ecauseo f theirl etteringa nd arrange-
ment, the secondb ecauseo f theirs hape.T he thirdc lass, however,c onsistso f manyv arieties,f ragments
of whicha t timesc annotb e distinguishedfr omt hose of dedicationsI. n the fifth and fourthc enturiesB .C.
there were stelai of many types: plain, with mouldings, with pediments, with akanthos decorations, with
rosettes, with sculpture, and often with various combinations of these elements. When thAe tAhteh enians
began again, in the second century B.C.,2 to use stelai, most of the old types were revived, but the majority
then were monuments of the naiskos type, containing relief sculpturei n a niche, which was often rounded,
and with the name on an entablatureb elow a pediment or a row of antefixes. In the commentaryI have
arbitrarilyu sed the following terminology to categorize the various types of stelai:3d
Marker- a rectangulars tone withoutd ecoration,s ometimesr e-used( e.g., nos. 453,662, P1.1 ).
Stele - a rectangular stone bearing a moulding at the top, with or without rosettes (e.g., no. 489, P1. 1).
Pedimental stele - a stele with the top cut in the form of a pediment, either rounded or triangular( e.g.,
no. 506, PI. 1, and no. 171, PI. 2).
Akanthos stele - a stele surmountedb y a decoration ooff aakkaanntthhnoo ss lleeaavveess in relief (e.g., no. 60, PI. 2).
Sculptured stele - a stele bearing ef sculpture not set off by surroundinga ntae nor in a niche (e.g.,
no. 895a, P1.2 ).
Naiskos- a pedimentals tele with relief sculpturei n a niche, eitherr oundedo r set off by entablature
and antae (e.g., nos. 74, 282, P1.3 ).
Flat-toppedn aiskos- like the precedinge xceptt hat the entablatureis not in the form of a pediment
but flat, usuallyc rownedb y a row of antefixesi n relief( e.g., nos. 119, 697, P1.3 ).
1 Besides the 1160 pieces included here (see the Concordance,b elow, pp. 201-211), there are almost 900 cataloguedf ragmentso f
funeralm onumentst hat do not contain enough informationt o make them worth editing (see below, pp. 195-200). Most of those in
the latter categoryw ere found before 1939; from 1947 on the practiceo f the excavatorsw as not to cataloguei nscriptionst hat did not
contain a complete word. There are many pieces of funeral monumentsi n this latter group now piled behind the Stoa of Attalos.
2 For the date, see J. Kirchner,D ie Antike,X V, 1939, pp. 93-97. The Agora fragmentss hed little light on this question. The frag-
mentaryn ature of most of them and the shortnesso f the text at any event make difficultt he identificationo f individualh ands and
compound the difficultieso f dating closely by letter forms (Cf. S. V. Tracy,G .R. B.S., XI, 1970,p p. 325-326, note 35, who remarks
that the skilled masons who inscribedd ecreesd o not seem to have worked on funeralm onuments).T here are two markers( nos. 468
and 613, below) in the "disjointeds tyle," which can be dated ad. fin. saec. III a. (S. Dow, A.J.A., XL, 1936, pp. 58-59), but both
commemoratef oreigners.
8 Very few complete stelai were found in the Agora, so most of the examples noted below are fragmentary.F or examples of the
varioust ypes in the earlierp eriod, see the plates in H. Riemann,K erameikosI, I; for the Roman period, see A. Muehsam,B erytus,X ,
1952-53, pp. 55-114.
2 INTRODUCTION
Therea re two othert ypes of monumento f whicht he fragmentsa re hard to distinguisha s funerary.
One is the mensa, which,b ecauseo f its size and thickness,c an be brokeni nto piecesw hichc ould well
come froma base.T he otheri s the largem onumentu, suallyi n the shapeo f a naiskos,w hichw as madeo f
severali ndividuallyc ut pieces of marble.P arts of the inscribede ntablatureo f such monumentso ften
cannotb e differentiatefdr om those of dedicationsI. have, on the whole,t riedt o be conservativein this
volume, publishinga s tombstoneso nly those pieces for which there is some indicationt hat they are
funerary,b ut there may well be some dedicationsi ncluded,a s certaintyi s impossiblei n many cases.
Generallyi,f a name,w itho wr ithout patronymico r demotics, tandsa lone,t hem onumenct anb e considered
funeraryb, ut the fragmentaryn atureo f many such piecesm akesi mpossiblet he use of this criterion.
I havea pproachedth is volumea s a corpusa nd so my aim has been to give as conciselya s possiblef or
each stonea classificationb y type,t he factsc oncerningit s discovery( the absenceo f a gridn umberm eans
that none was recorded), a description of its present condition, and measurementso f both the stone and
the letters.4F or the latter, the figure given is that of a normal upright, e.g., iota, tau, or epsilon. I have not
attempted to describe the letter forms, since there are included photographs of all pieces of which a
picturei s possiblea nd has not appearedp reviouslyi n Hesperia. Letter-formsa re an importantc ri-
terion for the dating of the public lists and the private monuments of the sixth, fifth, and, to a lesser
degree, fourth centuries B.C. In the Hellenistic period they are much less reliable, especially since many of
the monumentsd o not seem to have been inscribedb y skilledp rofessionals(s ee above, p. 1, note 2). I
shouldh esitate,o n the basis of lettersa lone,t o date monumentso f this perioda ny closert hanb y centu-
ries. Here the other criteriaf or chronology,n amelyt he shapea nd size of the monumenta nd whatever
prosopographicaclo nnectionsc an be found,a re muchm orei mportantI. have not triedt o date the later
inscriptioncs loselya t all, fallingb ack often on the vaguea et. Rom.; the eclecticisms hownb y the stone-
cutterso f the laterp eriodi n theirc hoiceo f letter-formms akesa ny datingo n this basise xtremelyh azard-
ous.5
In presentingt he texts I have tried to be conservatived, ottingn ot only those letterst he readingo f
whichi s not absolutelyc learb ut also partiall ettersw hicha re certaini n the contexti n whicht hey appear
but for whicha n alternativeis epigraphicallpyo ssible.O n the otherh and,p artiall ettersf or whicht here
is no alternativea re not dotted.A s for restorationsI, have attemptedt o includeo nly those which seem
certain,e ven when alternativesa re far less likely.T his has led me to relegatet o the notes some of the
restorationso f my predecessorsw, hich are often undoubtedlyc orrect,b ut, when one is dealingw ith
names,d emotics,a nd ethnics,r estorationse xempli gratia are hardlyu seful,a s I believet hey are in con-
secutivet exts,s incet he main value of these namesi s demographica nd prosopographicaIl .h ave triedt o
give a completeb ibliographyfo r each inscriptionb ut have kept the notes to what seemedt o be the
necessarym inimumo f epigraphicaclo mmentarya nd referencesu sefult o furtherp rosopographicastl udy.
The systemo f arrangemenits basedu pont hat used by J. Kirchnerin L.G.,1 12. In ChapterI I the public
monumentsa re presentedc hronologicallyT. he ordero f the privatem onumentsi,n cludingt hose of the
sixtha nd fifth centuriesB .C., is: Athenians,a lphabeticallby y demes;i soteleis, foreignersa, lphabetically
by ethnic;p ersonso f unknowno rigin,a lphabeticallyI.n the laterc hapterst he poetryw ithoutt he name
of the deceasedi s listed chronologicallyt,h e othersa lphabetically.
Finally,I havei ncludeda s completea set of concordanceas nd indicesa s I couldi n ordert o maket his
corpusa s usefula s possible.
4 The following abbreviationsa re used in the description:H . = height; W. = width; D. = diameter;L H. = letter height; SW. =
width of the stoichos; SH. = height of the stoichos.
5 A. Muehsam (op. cit., pp. 55-64), in her attempt to date the tombstones of the late period, has been largely successful on the
basis of the style of the sculpture,b ut her analysis of the letter-formss hows well the eclecticismo f the period in this area. Each of
two Agora fragments( nos. 623 and 823, Plates 51 and 66) has in its pedimenth alf a ship, by the style and dimensionso f which one
would judge that they belonged to the same monument.H owever, the lettering on the two is quite different.
II
PUBLIC FUNERAL MONUMENTS
1. Five fragmentsf rom a large monumentw hich seems to have consisted of ten individuals telai of Pentelic
marbleo n a commonb ase.
a: I.G., I2, 928, a (E.M. 10232),w ith part of the right side, which is inscribed,p reserved;b rokene lsewhere
(lines 1-53).
H. 0.73 m.; W. 0.26 m.; Th. 0.09 m.
b and c: .LG.,I 2, 928, b and c, copied by Fourmonta nd L. Ross in the ruins of the Churcho f the Panagia
Mesosporitissas omewheren ear Spatai n the Mesogeia;l ost by 1887. Fragmentb , like a, was inscribedo n the
right side (b = lines 54, 80-98, 130-134; c = lines 73-79, 99-129).
d: L.G.,I 2, 928, d, found and copied by Milchhoefferin a churchc alledE vangelistrian ear Spatai n 1887;n ow
lost, but two squeezesa re preservedi n the Akademiei n Berlin( lines 54-72).
e: Fragmento f Pentelicm arble( I 7009), found on July 21, 1966,i n a modernh ouse foundationa bove South
Stoa I (L 16). Originalb ack preservedc, arefullyp icked.R ight edge roughlyp ickedf or re-use;b rokene lsewhere
(lines 135-144).
H. 0.33 m.; W. 0.235 m.; Th. 0.163 m.-0.16 m., diminishing from bottom to top.
Ed. D. Bradeen,H esperia,X XXVI, 1967,p p. 321-328, photographso f all fragmentsp ls. 70-72. Cf. S.E.G.,
XXIV, 67.
The inscriptioni s stoichedone xcept for rubricsa nd added names. LH. 0.013 m., except in lines 34, 37, 54:
0.020 m.; lines 141-144: 0.016 m. SH. 0.0175 m.; SW. 0.0170 m.
a. 464 a. STOIX.
Stele A
Col. I Col. III (side)
lacuna
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