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INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE ARGIVE HERAEUM
V.
Inscribed on a white fine-grained limestone, which splits with conchoidal fracture.
Found in the North Stoa, between the back wall and the inner row of columns. Six
irregularly broken fragments of the stone have been found, five of which may readily
be fitted together. These measure roughly 1 ft. by 8 in., the sixth fragment 3 in. by
1 in.
The height of the letters is .4 in.
(«) Fragments 1-5.
. ov
piTOV
. TO,
• rvrw
(nvavwv
•: rpppr
.. ifierpov • H • Tipd ■ PO00O
. . T/30S
. . . ao , . .
(J) Fragment 6.
. . . avic . . .
The inscription is extremely well cut, and the surface of the stone in excellent condi-
tion, so that the failure to discover more fragments is peculiarly to be regretted. It
seems to have been an account of moneys paid out, possibly for building materials. We
might restore £v\a>v ava>v in line 4, but the inscription is so broken away at the left that
conjectural restorations are not worth much. One Argive inscription gives H = 100,
17=50, ©=10, cf. Reinach, Traite d' JEpigraphie grecque, p. 218; Dittenberger,
Hermes, vu. p. 62 ft'., comments on the inscription, which is also published as No. 3286
in the Dialekt-Inschriften; cf. Larfeld in Mulder's Handbuch, T. pp. 541 ft. Perhaps,
however, Q = omicron, as in other portions of the inscription, and signifies an obol. But
how are we to read P ? If it means five or fifty drachmas in line 5, its repetition up to
five places would surely be most unusual. Professor F. D. Allen suggested that it may be
used to designate a coin of given value (cf. Reinach, Traite, p. 217, and note 3). Pro-
fessor Allen also suggested the reading d>va va>v in line 4, thus connecting the inscription
with the purchase of sacrificial animals. Compare the sacrificial calendar from Cos,
J. H. S. IX. pp. 323 ft., published also in Paton's Corpus of Coan Inscriptions. Line
5, hoAvever, seems rather to suggest the purchase of building materials. We might per-
haps imagine in line 5 something that had a irepi^eTpov (St/^erpo^ or Tpi^rpov seems
difficult, since it involves the use of jxerpov as a linear unit) of 100, and in line 3 the
. . . tcl might belong to some such expression as rol t<x SiclcttvXcdv 6vpa>jxa-Ta (cf. lines
63-64 of the Epidaurean temple-inscription). This inscription is Franker's C. I. G. P.
INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE ARGIVE HERAEUM
V.
Inscribed on a white fine-grained limestone, which splits with conchoidal fracture.
Found in the North Stoa, between the back wall and the inner row of columns. Six
irregularly broken fragments of the stone have been found, five of which may readily
be fitted together. These measure roughly 1 ft. by 8 in., the sixth fragment 3 in. by
1 in.
The height of the letters is .4 in.
(«) Fragments 1-5.
. ov
piTOV
. TO,
• rvrw
(nvavwv
•: rpppr
.. ifierpov • H • Tipd ■ PO00O
. . T/30S
. . . ao , . .
(J) Fragment 6.
. . . avic . . .
The inscription is extremely well cut, and the surface of the stone in excellent condi-
tion, so that the failure to discover more fragments is peculiarly to be regretted. It
seems to have been an account of moneys paid out, possibly for building materials. We
might restore £v\a>v ava>v in line 4, but the inscription is so broken away at the left that
conjectural restorations are not worth much. One Argive inscription gives H = 100,
17=50, ©=10, cf. Reinach, Traite d' JEpigraphie grecque, p. 218; Dittenberger,
Hermes, vu. p. 62 ft'., comments on the inscription, which is also published as No. 3286
in the Dialekt-Inschriften; cf. Larfeld in Mulder's Handbuch, T. pp. 541 ft. Perhaps,
however, Q = omicron, as in other portions of the inscription, and signifies an obol. But
how are we to read P ? If it means five or fifty drachmas in line 5, its repetition up to
five places would surely be most unusual. Professor F. D. Allen suggested that it may be
used to designate a coin of given value (cf. Reinach, Traite, p. 217, and note 3). Pro-
fessor Allen also suggested the reading d>va va>v in line 4, thus connecting the inscription
with the purchase of sacrificial animals. Compare the sacrificial calendar from Cos,
J. H. S. IX. pp. 323 ft., published also in Paton's Corpus of Coan Inscriptions. Line
5, hoAvever, seems rather to suggest the purchase of building materials. We might per-
haps imagine in line 5 something that had a irepi^eTpov (St/^erpo^ or Tpi^rpov seems
difficult, since it involves the use of jxerpov as a linear unit) of 100, and in line 3 the
. . . tcl might belong to some such expression as rol t<x SiclcttvXcdv 6vpa>jxa-Ta (cf. lines
63-64 of the Epidaurean temple-inscription). This inscription is Franker's C. I. G. P.