Ὁ οἶκος τοῦ τριηράρχου Ἀρχεδήμου καὶ ὁ δῆμος τῶν Αὐριδῶν: παρατηρήσεις σὲ ἕνα νέο ἀττικὸ ἐπιτύμβιο μνημεῖο

In 2007, a very tall funerary stele with a palmette and two rosettes in relief was discovered near the cemetery of Schistos, within the confines of the modern municipality of Perama. The inscribed stele was published in the Archaiologikon Deltion of 2009 by Mrs. Petritaki, who did not put forward any prosopographical identifications. Upon restoring the demotic of the two deceased as [Α]ὐρίδης, I tentatively submit that the stele commemorated two members of an Athenian propertied family of the 4th cent. B.C. and that the first deceased, Archedemos son of Archippos of Auridai, should be identified as the trierarch Archedemos of IG II2 1609. Besides I suggest, very hesitantly, that the new stele can be used to place the tiny deme of Auridai, whose location has been hitherto unknown, in the area of Perama, across Salamis. My tentative identification tallies well with the extant scholarly consensus that Auridai belonged to the coastal trittys of the tribe Hippothontis and receives further corroboration from the etymological connection of the deme’s name with the noun αὔρα (sea breeze)

Ηαγεμονία: A New Treaty from Classical Thebes

Die Autoren legen die Erstedition einer Inschrift vor, die bei einer Notgrabung in Theben südlich der Kadmeia nahe bei den Toren der Elektra gefunden wurde. Die in der epichorischen Schrift von Böotien geschriebene Inschrift kann ins 4. Jh. v.Chr. datiert werden. Sie enthält das Ende eines Vertrags zwischen Theben und Histiaia, der den Thebanern die Führung in einem Krieg (hαγεμονία) zuspricht. Aus paläographischen und historischen Gründen erwägen die Autoren ein Datum in den 370er oder 360er Jahren, bevorzugen aber eine Datierung um 377 v.Chr., als die Thebaner nach Xenophon die Akropolis von Histiaia einnehmen konnten, die bis dahin unter der Kontrolle Spartas gestanden hatte. Die Autoren diskutieren auch die Möglichkeit, dass der Vertrag ursprünglich im Heiligtum des Herakles, der Stadtgottheit von Theben, ausgestellt war.The authors present the editio princeps of an inscribed document found in a rescue excavation at Thebes, in the area immediately to the south of Kadmeia, near the Electran Gates. The inscription, written in the epichoric script of Boeotia, can be dated to the early 4th c. BC. It preserves the end of a treaty between Thebes and Histiaia which assigns war leadership (hαγεμονία) to the Thebans. By virtue of historical and paleographical analysis, they consider a date in the 370s or the 360s, but express their preference for a date ca. 377 BC when, according to Xenophon, the Thebans managed to seize the acropolis of Histiaia which had been under Spartan control. The authors also explore the possibility that the treaty was originally displayed in the shrine of Herakles, the poliadic divinity of Thebes.Les auteurs présentent l’editio princeps d’un document inscrit trouvé lors de fouilles préventives à Thèbes, dans la région immédiatement au sud de Cadmée, près des Portes Électrides. Inscrite en caractères épichoriques de Béotie, l’inscription peut être datée du début du 4e s.a.C. Elle préserve la fin d’un traité entre Thèbes et Histiaia qui assigne la conduite de la guerre (hαγεμονία) aux Thébains. L’analyse historique et paléographique indiquerait une datation dans les années 370 ou 360, mais les auteurs préfèrent dater vers 377 a.C. quand, selon Xénophon, les Thébains réussirent à s’emparer de l’acropole d’Histiée qui était jusque là sous contrôle lacédémonien. Ils explorent aussi la possibilité que le traité était à l’origine exposé dans le sanctuaire d’Héraclès, la divinité poliade de Thèbes

Sacred and public land in ancient Athens (circa 500-200 B.C.)

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Religion and family politics in Hellenistic Kalaureia. Three new inscriptions from the sanctuary of Poseidon

This article presents three unpublished Hellenistic inscriptions from the sanctuary of Poseidon in Kalaureia (modern Poros): two found during archaeological excavations on the site and one recorded in a letter that was once part of Ioannis Kapodistrias’ official correspondence. All three inscriptions were dedicatory and carved on bases supporting portrait statues. Interestingly, they were offered to Poseidon by members of a single family already known from other documents in the Kalaureian epigraphic corpus. Remarkably, eight out of the 18 inscriptions discovered in Kalaureia make repeated references to men and women of this very family, which appears to have materially dominated Poseidon’s temenos and its environs during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC through the careful placement of portraits of its members. Most of these statues were conspicuously placed by the entrance to the sanctuary, though at least one of them was erected inside of the god’s temple. In our article, we present in detail the three new inscriptions, one of them an epigram, and attempt an analysis of the religious behaviour of this prominent local family against the background of contemporary sociopolitical development