Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (5.1886-1890)

A NEW SIKYONIAN INSCRIPTION.

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Iii December 1887, while I was residing at Ki&to, the chief town
(•n-pairevovaa) of the modern deme of Sikyon, during the progress of
the excavations at the old theatre of Sikyon, an Albanian peasant named
Georgios Agrapedakes told me that some blocks of stone containing
iraXaia ypapp,aTa had been found in a field belonging to him in the
village of Moulki.2 On December 18, I went up to Moiilki in com-
pany with my friend Dr. Eustathios Tournakes of Kiato, and there
we found two blocks of stone, said to have been dug up some three
years previously. On one of these the inscription, of which a facsimile
is given above, was quite plainly legible. The length of this block is
0.70 m.,3 the same as that of the other, on which there seemed to be
traces of letters obliterated beyond the possibility of decipherment.
The height of the letters themselves is from 0.02 m. to 0.025 m., the
former being that of the O, except in the first line. The stone is of a

1 These names are all to be found in Pape. Only two are cited as borne by Siky-
onians, Aischines (Plut., Be Her. mal., 21) and Aristokles (Paus., vi. 9. 1; vi. 3.
11). A Mousos is mentioned (Paus., v. xxiv. 1 ; Overbeck, Schriflq., 2080) as the
unknown artist of astatueof Zeus set up atOl ympia by "the demos of the Corinthians."

2 Moulki (MoCaki) is situated Hi w. of Basiliko (the modern representative of the
upper town of Sikyon), near the nordfii tt/s Aexo0as, the ancient 'E\t<ro-wv. It un-
doubtedly formed part of the old city before its capture by Demetrios Poliorketes.
Of. Diodor., xx. 102, 2-4.

3 The thickness of the block is 0.2G m : the original widtli cannot be determined.

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