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

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142 The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus.

certainly a most valuable indication of the resources and financial system of
the Artemision at an early period conveyed by this piece of silver. I only
wish that its interpretation may be placed beyond question.

Date.

Since the circumstances under which the plate was found leave the
question of its period doubtful, and there is no sure indication of date in
the contents, recourse must be had to its epigraphic character.

The alphabet in which the texts are couched is the fully developed
Ionian, which has lost digamma but retains koppa in full use. The eta has
become open, and other significant letters, e.g. alpha, cpsilon, nu and sigiua,
though they are written in distinctly archaic fashion, have lost their most
primitive forms. The compound consonants are present (xfj is absent for
lack of occasion for its use) ; but xi retains its complementary sigma. There
are both long and short 0. The most noteworthy feature is the presence of
the symbol t. which occurs three times, but always in the same root-word,
reTap-. This, its first absolutely certain occurrence in any Greek word
which is not a proper name of dubious origin, lends additional probability
to its disputed presence in an inscription of Teos,1 in the word tfJaXaT*??
(OaXdaarj?). With that exception it has been observed only on (1) a well-
known stele of Halicarnassus2 in the British Museum (early 5th cent. is.c. ?)
where it occurs in the names OzWaiHos and Hai/vaiuo?, and perhaps also in
'\\LKapvaT€(Dv and SapvTwXXou : (2) perhaps on two Naukratite (Milesian ?)
potsherds (6th cent.?),3 on one of which it is the only character, while on
the other it occurs with two others, not capable of being interpreted as
forming a word : (3) on coins of Mesembria in Thrace, ranging from the
fifth to the third centuries b.c. : (4) in Carian ? graffiti copied by A. H. Sayce
in Egypt.4

The questions as to the origin and vogue of this symbol have been
discussed very fully and recently by Mr. F. \Y. G. Foat, in the Journal
of Hellenic Studies.7' Its latest occurrence throws a little confirmatory light
on its phonetic value. It stands clearly for a sound which was variously
expressed in Greek crcr and tt; and there can be little doubt not only
about the possibility of its occurrence in OaXda-ar]^, but about its value in
the Halicarnassian names. This sound ought to be intermediate between
the emphatic sibilant and the emphatic dental I, and if so can hardly be

1 Roehl, I.G.A.. 497 I;. 22, 23. : S.G.I)./., 57

wkratu, i. pi. 32, ims. 27, 404. ' Proe. See. Bibl. Arch. 1S95, p, |n.

. p. 33S. Cf. Hoffmann, Cr. Dm!., iii. p. 574,
 
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