Hogarth, David G.; Smith, Cecil Harcourt [Contr.]: Excavations at Ephesus: the archaic Artemisia: Text (London, 1908)

132 The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus.

even smaller percentage. If that be so, the salines, or whatever was the
source of salt, were not themselves property of the Temple.

Text B.

(i) The ambiguities of A. are redoubled in B., thanks partly to its more
imperfect condition, partly to the less obvious nature of its contents. It is just
possible that the faint indications in the first part of 1. 1 point to such an
introductory formula as A££P]OiNH £*[K£ia ; but I attach little value to this
suggestion. The dative rout t)[j.i(iv7)([q)l and the possible p> three places before
tqi perhaps point to some such beginning as n]ya[os] ra ->7/x 1/^77i[w e'/c rro
S]opaT05, = In addition to the lialf mina from spoil of war. The smallness of this
sum again suits my suggested interpretation of Ik rov Sd/mro?. The entry
probably continues as far as Seo/xeWs in 1. 2. The latter part of it almost
certainly reads •^pvar\o{y) (or apyvp\o(vj) eLCfoatv iivea[<; rjix.L\ivrjio{y) Seo/xeVa?, = in
gold (or silver) 20 minae less half a mina. In the middle of the entry we need a
transitive verb to govern /xveas, and, on the analogy of later entries, it should be
in the first person plural. The number of lost letters at the end of 1. 1 is eight
or nine,1 and at the beginning of 1. 2, six. I suggest 8]opa[ro? avvop. \ev xpucrjo.
For the verb, see later on, 1. 4. In support of it here I adduce the fact that
repetition of formulae characterizes such statements of account.

If 1. 1 be rightly restored, the first entry is a record by the priests, or some
other body of officials, that in addition to the half mina derived from war-spoil,
they made up (or collected) 19^ minae. In fact, it explains the composition of
a lump sum of 20 minae.

(ii) A fresh entry begins with 30 minae, and continues at any rate to
a\o? in 1. 3 ; after this occurs the "conjunctive" interpoint ; then a very obscure
clause, which should be a supplement to the clause preceding the interpoint;
then another "conjunctive" interpoint; and finally, a third clause introduced
by Se and ending with -^/xie/crTa, after which is a blank. These three clauses
may be taken as forming a single entry, but containing three statements.

(a) The first statement is clear. After p.viai and the interpoint about ten
letters are missing at the end of 1. 2, and about seven at the beginning of 1. 3,
which runs on boustropliedon. Before o-TaTrjpet, (if that be not a mistake for
o-rarTjpes) there must be some preposition, perhaps 77/305; the entry so far lacks
both a verb and a specification of metal. The lower part of a letter surviving
after the interpoint indicates, almost without any doubt, K ; and as the verb in
this case must be intransitive, governed by pviai, one may restore; with some

1 The lettering hereabouts is unusually large ; rf. the preserved character! in 5]iWt<is.