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

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REPORT OF EXCAVATIONS AT SIKYON.

PIEIATAAANKAirYrMAN AYKAIA . . V . ANAIS

KAI T ATKPATION \irYTMANKAir AT KP ATI ON

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Hal&as HacrlXeia vrdXav, "lcrd'p,ia ayevelow; Kal dvhpas Trvyfidv

Av/caia iraytcpwriov, Ta avra ,lcr0p,ia8i,

"Icrd/j,i,a irayKpaTiov, Ne'/xea irayKpdriov,

YlavaOr/vata Trvyfxdv, Ne/xea TrayKpdriov,

5 Ne/xea irvyp.dv, ldNeyaea. Trvyp,dv Kal Traytcpdnov

'Ao"/c\a7rieta irayKpdriov, Ta avra NeyueaSt,

Naa rraXav Kal irvypLav "\crQp.ia rrvyjxdv,

Kal irayKpdriov, lTu^ot rrvy/xdv,

'Vleia rrdXav Kal irvyp,dv Av/cai,a \_Trv~\y[p,~\dv St?,

10 Kal TrayKpdriov. .... koJI irvypidv Kal irayKpdriov.

14 [This is to be read (®oivia.sTetcr)\_iKpaTov iwohjtt. Teisikratesis, no doubt, the pupil
of Euthykrates the son of Lysippos, who was said by Pliny (Hist. Nat., xxxiv. 8.19.
67) to have approached closer to the art of Lysippos than did Euthykrates himself.
His name has been found as artist in an inscription in Thebes and at Oropos (LoWY,
Inschrift.gr. Bildhauer, 120, 121). The period of his activity lies between 320 and 284
b. c. (Lowy, 120). His name is always written Teisikrates, even on a base found at
Albano (Lowy, 478). His son Thoinias appears also on monuments, one from Tana-
gra, one from Oropos, and a third from Delos (Lowy, 121,122, 122a). On that from
Oropos he is denominated a Sikyonian, as his father is named by Pliny. His career
as artist would fall about the middle of the third century, probably for some years
both before and after. Xenokrates, a pupil of Euthykrates or of Teisikrates, was
engaged at Pergamon on the battle-monuments of Attalos I (b. c. 241-197), and the
characters of our inscription resemble very closely those there employed, especially

11 in Lowy, p. 116. The bar of A and the horizontal lines of S are slightly curved;
M has its sides nearly or quite perpendicular; 0 and 0 are somewhat below the
average size; T has the upper bar passing beyond the uprights, left and right. On
the whole, the letters are quite regular and handsome without affectation. The iden-
tification of the artist's name among these broken letters is of interest in many ways.
It gives a fixed date for the inscription; and, as an artist would not have signed a
memorial bearing an inscription merely, we may conclude, that a statue of the athlete
formed part of the monument; furthermore, that a monument of this kind would not
have been torn down and used to construct the wall in the theatre, unless some dis-
aster had befallen it. We know of no occasion for this in the history of Sikyon from
this time on, unless the statue was carried off by the Romans among the numerous
art-treasures which they conveyed to Rome, or the monument was destroyed in the
great earthquake which visited the city, probably in the reign of Tiberius. Hence it
maybe said, again, that the wall A was not constructed till many years after Greece
was reduced to a Roman province, and perhaps not till after the beginning of our
era.—A. C. M.]