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ΑΤΤΙΚΑ. — GRAVESTONES.
Τ5Σ
But how to account for their great frequency I can-
not tell. There may be truth in the view of Ross
as given above. Kumanudes however, p. 243 n.,
thinks that if the speech of Isokrates, entitled ilepl
τοΰ κατοίκισμοΰ Μιλησίοις (mentioned in the life of
Isokrates), were now extant, it might clear up the
mystery by attesting a settlement of Milesians in
Attika long before Alexander’s capture of the city.
Neubauer (Commentt. Epigraph., p. 170) hazards
the conjecture that Μιλήσιοι was employed at some
time in Attika as a generic name for all foreigners
in official documents; much in the same way, I
suppose, as the term ‘ Plataean’ was at one time
employed at Athens to designate a certain status
of imperfect citizenship (see Schol. on Aristoph.,
Frogs, 694; Arnold on Thukyd., iii. 55). It may
be added that natives of Antioch and Heraklea
stand next to the Milesians in the frequency of
their occurrence in Attic sepulchral inscriptions;
but this is less surprising from the fact of there
being several cities bearing these names (see note
on Nos. xcix and c).
CIV.
A sepulchral column of white marble : height, 2 ft. 4J in.; diameter, 9 in. From the Elgin Collection. Osann, Syll., p. 154; C. I. 727;
Kuman. 2222.
ΜΤΓΤΑΔΙΟΝΤΚΙΟΥ
μιληςζιαβατωνος:
ΘΡΙΑΣΝΟΥ ΓΥΝΗ
Μύστα Διονυσίου Μιλησία,
Βάτωνος θριασίου γυνή.
The name Βάτων is not uncommon. Bockh fol-
lows previous editors in reading ΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ, a name
found nowhere else; but the B is quite legible on
the stone. In the next line also the reading of the
stone is certainly as given above. After what was
said on the preceding inscription little need be
added here. The union of an Athenian citizen
with a foreign woman was illegal, and the children
of such marriages were repeatedly declared by fresh
laws to be excluded from citizenship. But these
enactments seem in each case to have fallen into
desuetude. Not to mention cases like Themisto-
kles (Plut. Them. 1) or Kimon (Hdt. vi. 39), whose
mothers were foreigners, we find frequent examples
in these sepulchral inscriptions of the marriage of
Athenian citizens with foreign wives, especially Mi-
lesian women ; nor is it possible to suppose that
in every instance an ίπιγαμία existed between the
parties themselves or had been granted to their
ancestors. (Cp. Schomann, Antiq. Jur. Pub., p. 197;
Ross, Demen, p. 60, note by Meier; Ad. Philippi,
Beitrage z. e. Gesch. d. Attischen Biirgerrechtes,
P-52, fol.)
cv.
A plain, solid sepulchral amphora of white marble : height, 2 ft. 4| in. From the Elgin Collection. Museum Marbles, ix, pl. 33, fig. 4;
Kuman. 2274.
φαιδιμοχ· naykpatithx
Φαίδιμος Ναυκρατίτης.
This monument contains no mark to indicate the
place from which it was brought; but its general
character quite warrants Kumanudes in classing it
with the Attic epitaphs. It is inscribed in some-
what small, regular letters of the fourth century b.c.
CVI
A sepulchral stele of white marble, broken beneath, but surmounted by a floral ornament: height, 1 ft. 5 in.; breadth, i2| in. From
the Elgin Collection. Osann, Syll., p. 96; C. I. 879 ; Museum Marbles, ix, pl. 29, fig. 2 ; Kuman. 2286.
ΑΞεΚΛΗΠΙΟΔΩΡΟε
ΟΡΑίΩΝΟίΟΛΥΝΘΙΟε
ΕΠΙΚΥΔΗ<ΑεΚΛΗΠΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ
ΟΛΥΝΘΙΟε
Ασσκληττιόδωρος θράσωνος Ολύνθιοςκ
Επικύδης ’Ασκληπιοδώρου Όλύνθιοί.
On the doubled sigma in the first line (but not in the third) cp. No. cii.
Q q 2
Τ5Σ
But how to account for their great frequency I can-
not tell. There may be truth in the view of Ross
as given above. Kumanudes however, p. 243 n.,
thinks that if the speech of Isokrates, entitled ilepl
τοΰ κατοίκισμοΰ Μιλησίοις (mentioned in the life of
Isokrates), were now extant, it might clear up the
mystery by attesting a settlement of Milesians in
Attika long before Alexander’s capture of the city.
Neubauer (Commentt. Epigraph., p. 170) hazards
the conjecture that Μιλήσιοι was employed at some
time in Attika as a generic name for all foreigners
in official documents; much in the same way, I
suppose, as the term ‘ Plataean’ was at one time
employed at Athens to designate a certain status
of imperfect citizenship (see Schol. on Aristoph.,
Frogs, 694; Arnold on Thukyd., iii. 55). It may
be added that natives of Antioch and Heraklea
stand next to the Milesians in the frequency of
their occurrence in Attic sepulchral inscriptions;
but this is less surprising from the fact of there
being several cities bearing these names (see note
on Nos. xcix and c).
CIV.
A sepulchral column of white marble : height, 2 ft. 4J in.; diameter, 9 in. From the Elgin Collection. Osann, Syll., p. 154; C. I. 727;
Kuman. 2222.
ΜΤΓΤΑΔΙΟΝΤΚΙΟΥ
μιληςζιαβατωνος:
ΘΡΙΑΣΝΟΥ ΓΥΝΗ
Μύστα Διονυσίου Μιλησία,
Βάτωνος θριασίου γυνή.
The name Βάτων is not uncommon. Bockh fol-
lows previous editors in reading ΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ, a name
found nowhere else; but the B is quite legible on
the stone. In the next line also the reading of the
stone is certainly as given above. After what was
said on the preceding inscription little need be
added here. The union of an Athenian citizen
with a foreign woman was illegal, and the children
of such marriages were repeatedly declared by fresh
laws to be excluded from citizenship. But these
enactments seem in each case to have fallen into
desuetude. Not to mention cases like Themisto-
kles (Plut. Them. 1) or Kimon (Hdt. vi. 39), whose
mothers were foreigners, we find frequent examples
in these sepulchral inscriptions of the marriage of
Athenian citizens with foreign wives, especially Mi-
lesian women ; nor is it possible to suppose that
in every instance an ίπιγαμία existed between the
parties themselves or had been granted to their
ancestors. (Cp. Schomann, Antiq. Jur. Pub., p. 197;
Ross, Demen, p. 60, note by Meier; Ad. Philippi,
Beitrage z. e. Gesch. d. Attischen Biirgerrechtes,
P-52, fol.)
cv.
A plain, solid sepulchral amphora of white marble : height, 2 ft. 4| in. From the Elgin Collection. Museum Marbles, ix, pl. 33, fig. 4;
Kuman. 2274.
φαιδιμοχ· naykpatithx
Φαίδιμος Ναυκρατίτης.
This monument contains no mark to indicate the
place from which it was brought; but its general
character quite warrants Kumanudes in classing it
with the Attic epitaphs. It is inscribed in some-
what small, regular letters of the fourth century b.c.
CVI
A sepulchral stele of white marble, broken beneath, but surmounted by a floral ornament: height, 1 ft. 5 in.; breadth, i2| in. From
the Elgin Collection. Osann, Syll., p. 96; C. I. 879 ; Museum Marbles, ix, pl. 29, fig. 2 ; Kuman. 2286.
ΑΞεΚΛΗΠΙΟΔΩΡΟε
ΟΡΑίΩΝΟίΟΛΥΝΘΙΟε
ΕΠΙΚΥΔΗ<ΑεΚΛΗΠΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ
ΟΛΥΝΘΙΟε
Ασσκληττιόδωρος θράσωνος Ολύνθιοςκ
Επικύδης ’Ασκληπιοδώρου Όλύνθιοί.
On the doubled sigma in the first line (but not in the third) cp. No. cii.
Q q 2