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OF THE TEMPLE OF MINERVA.
testify, when by public authority at Athens the orthography
of the Greek writing was altered by the introduction of the
Ionic letters on public monuments, in a mode which it appears
in the time of Euripides had been practised in manuscript. In
this example of Grecian Paleography we find neither the long
vowels nor the double consonants, E stands for h, which is in-
troduced simply as aU aspirate; O and OI stand for n as well as
O for OT. A is found for r, v for A, XX for H, and *£ for ■$,.
In the restoration by Boeckh OEOIX E, is rendered Geoio-
eiti-iov^iota-
'to the Gods the deliverers," after Corsini.'
In the catalogue of costly objects, recorded in this inscription
of Stuart, as in the other inventories belonging to the Parthenon,
of which four have been discovered, the weight of the major part
of the offerings is registered: they consisted of golden crowns, cups
and goblets of gold and silver; a figure of Proserpine on a pedes-
tal decorated with gold, is found mentioned; a couch adorned
with gold, griffins, lions' and griffins' heads, golden shields and
other armour and weapons, supposed to be the spoils of the
Medes, are also recorded. Lyres of gold and ivory, Chalcidian
goblets, an ivory Methymnsean lyre, a splendid shield from Les-
bos, supposed to have been dedicated on the conquest of Mity-
lene, golden victorious wreaths, coins and golden rings, are also
alluded to. But the most remarkable dedications were those sup-
posed to be described at line 15, by the passage . . "VINONnOAEX:
.. APATPO, and in the line following, by AKINAKEE Enxp ...
the former of which Mr. Kose and Professor Boeckh are of
opinion allude to the throne or seat of Xerxes when he view-
ed the. battle of Salamis, and the latter to the "acinaces"
or scimiter of Mardonius, both captured at Platieae. These tro-
phies of Grecian valour are alluded to by Demosthenes. The
$!(pp><; ugyvgSnovs or silver footed seat was by the lexicographers,
Harpocration and Suidas, in conformity with the meaning given
to the passage of this inscription, described as being in their time
in the Parthenon. The " acinaces " is by Pausanias related to
have been preserved in his age in the Erechtheum. Boeckhii
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, P. 11. Ins. 139. Rose Ins.
Graecte, P. 232. Tab. XXVIII. Visconti, Memoires, Ins. No.
45. Demosth. in Timocrat. Paus. Lib. 1. Ch. XXVII. Note >'
p. 29. [bd.]
1 The dedication of public acts as well as altars to the gods, under a compre-
hensive epithet, was frequent on monuments of antiquity ; we recollect a fragment
found in the excavation of the column of Phocas, in the Roman Forum, by that
patroness of the arts, the late Duchess of Devonshire, with the following dedi-
catory words;
An COCI KA KO I C
0€O I C
EX ORACVLO
To the evil-avertinsr Gods from the Oracle."
which inscription, later than 'the age of Hadrian, is remarkable in the novelty, or
barbarism of the epithet, and the conjunctive use of the Greek and Roman lan-
guages.
While on the subject of inscriptions, we may remark that on some of the blocks
of marble composing the antepagmenta of the present door of the posticum into
the opisthodomus of the Parthenon, fragments of inscriptions have been discovered,
which by the characters alone, if such evidence were required, shew that the forma-
tion of the present doorway, within the more antique one, was subsequent to the
age of Pericles, and probably from the circumstance of the demolition of those
ancient Athenian records, the alteration took place when the temple was converted
into a Greek church. In the fourth volume the remains of these inscriptions will
be described. [ed.]
OF THE TEMPLE OF MINERVA.
testify, when by public authority at Athens the orthography
of the Greek writing was altered by the introduction of the
Ionic letters on public monuments, in a mode which it appears
in the time of Euripides had been practised in manuscript. In
this example of Grecian Paleography we find neither the long
vowels nor the double consonants, E stands for h, which is in-
troduced simply as aU aspirate; O and OI stand for n as well as
O for OT. A is found for r, v for A, XX for H, and *£ for ■$,.
In the restoration by Boeckh OEOIX E, is rendered Geoio-
eiti-iov^iota-
'to the Gods the deliverers," after Corsini.'
In the catalogue of costly objects, recorded in this inscription
of Stuart, as in the other inventories belonging to the Parthenon,
of which four have been discovered, the weight of the major part
of the offerings is registered: they consisted of golden crowns, cups
and goblets of gold and silver; a figure of Proserpine on a pedes-
tal decorated with gold, is found mentioned; a couch adorned
with gold, griffins, lions' and griffins' heads, golden shields and
other armour and weapons, supposed to be the spoils of the
Medes, are also recorded. Lyres of gold and ivory, Chalcidian
goblets, an ivory Methymnsean lyre, a splendid shield from Les-
bos, supposed to have been dedicated on the conquest of Mity-
lene, golden victorious wreaths, coins and golden rings, are also
alluded to. But the most remarkable dedications were those sup-
posed to be described at line 15, by the passage . . "VINONnOAEX:
.. APATPO, and in the line following, by AKINAKEE Enxp ...
the former of which Mr. Kose and Professor Boeckh are of
opinion allude to the throne or seat of Xerxes when he view-
ed the. battle of Salamis, and the latter to the "acinaces"
or scimiter of Mardonius, both captured at Platieae. These tro-
phies of Grecian valour are alluded to by Demosthenes. The
$!(pp><; ugyvgSnovs or silver footed seat was by the lexicographers,
Harpocration and Suidas, in conformity with the meaning given
to the passage of this inscription, described as being in their time
in the Parthenon. The " acinaces " is by Pausanias related to
have been preserved in his age in the Erechtheum. Boeckhii
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, P. 11. Ins. 139. Rose Ins.
Graecte, P. 232. Tab. XXVIII. Visconti, Memoires, Ins. No.
45. Demosth. in Timocrat. Paus. Lib. 1. Ch. XXVII. Note >'
p. 29. [bd.]
1 The dedication of public acts as well as altars to the gods, under a compre-
hensive epithet, was frequent on monuments of antiquity ; we recollect a fragment
found in the excavation of the column of Phocas, in the Roman Forum, by that
patroness of the arts, the late Duchess of Devonshire, with the following dedi-
catory words;
An COCI KA KO I C
0€O I C
EX ORACVLO
To the evil-avertinsr Gods from the Oracle."
which inscription, later than 'the age of Hadrian, is remarkable in the novelty, or
barbarism of the epithet, and the conjunctive use of the Greek and Roman lan-
guages.
While on the subject of inscriptions, we may remark that on some of the blocks
of marble composing the antepagmenta of the present door of the posticum into
the opisthodomus of the Parthenon, fragments of inscriptions have been discovered,
which by the characters alone, if such evidence were required, shew that the forma-
tion of the present doorway, within the more antique one, was subsequent to the
age of Pericles, and probably from the circumstance of the demolition of those
ancient Athenian records, the alteration took place when the temple was converted
into a Greek church. In the fourth volume the remains of these inscriptions will
be described. [ed.]