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44 N. Carless Unwin – O. HenryAppendixI.Labraunda 137, 3–6 and I.Labraunda 3, 10–13*The many similarities between the perfectly preserved new text and the text of I.Labraunda 3 al-low us to look again at an unsatisfactory passage in I.Labraunda 3, 10–13, where Crampa restored the very badly worn lines as follows: 10    κα[ὶ] ὅ̣τι συνδιατηρήσω Μυλασεῦσιν,11 [κ]α̣[θ]ό̣[τι] ἀ̣[ξι]ο̣ῦ̣σι̣, τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῖς ἐν τῆι χώραι τά τ̣ε̣12 [ἱερ]ὰ̣ κ̣α̣τ̣ὰ̣ τὸ ἱε[ρὸ]ν̣ τὸ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Λαβραύνδου καὶ τἆλλα13 [π]άντα κ̣αὶ τὴν̣ χώρ̣α̣ν τήν τε κατὰ ‹Λ›αβ̣ρ̣άυνδα καὶ τὴν ἄλλην τ̣[ὴν] 14 [ο]ὖ̣σα̣̣ν̣ [α]ὐ̣τ̣[ῶν] κ̣α̣ὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τὰ ἐπικεχωρημένα πάνταCrampa translated (p. 14–15): ‘that I should assist the Mylaseis, as they requested, in preserving what belonged to them in the country, both the [sacred things] in the shrine of Zeus Labraundos and all the other things, and also the land in the neighbourhood of Labraunda and the other land which was [theirs] and all the other items which had been granted to them’.This promise was made in the oath which Olympichos had sworn to the Mylasan demos (ll. 9–10): ‘in which I had written among other things that …’ (ἐν ὧι ἐγεγρά[φειν τά τε ἄ]λλ̣α̣ κα[ὶ] ὅ̣τι …). Just so, in the new text, Olympichos refers to the oath which he swore to the demos after the city’s liberation (translation on p. 31 above):   καὶ περὶ τούτων ὤμοσα τῶι δήμωι συνδιατηρήσειν Μυλασεῦσιν τήν τε ἐλευθερίαν4 καὶ τὴν αὐτονομίαν εἰς ἅπαντα τὸν χρόνον καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ ἄσυλα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῖς ἐν τῆι χώραι τά τε ἐν Λαρυσυνίοις καὶ τὸ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Λαβραύνδου καὶ τἆλ- λα πάντα καὶ τὴν χώραν τήν τε κατὰ Λαβράυνδα καὶ τὴν* My thanks go to Pontus Hellström for providing the photograph here presented, and for offering his own reading of lines 11–12 (which agrees with mine) and to Kerstin Höghammar for facilitating my work in the Uppsala University Library and for making my stay in Uppsala such a pleasant one. A new Olympichos inscription from Labraunda 458 ἄλλην τὴν οὖσαν Μυλασέων καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τὰ ἐπικεχωρη- μένα πάντα·In the documents that make up the Olympichos dossier, despite frequent cross-references to what was said or written before, the phrasing of individual passages is hardly ever identical, and we cannot therefore restore mechanically. In this case, however, the part of the sentence start-ing with τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῖς ἐν τῆι χώραι in 3, 11, to πάντα at the end of l. 14, is near-identical in both letters (cf. 137, 5–9)1, apart from the small section restored by Crampa at the beginning of l. 12: [ἱερ]ὰ̣ κ̣α̣τ̣ὰ̣ τὸ ἱε[ρό]ν̣, after which τὸ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Λαβραύνδου again picks up the thread. ‘The [sacred things] in the shrine of Zeus Labraundos’ does read like a stop-gap solution, so it seemed worth testing if the 16 letters of our new text’s ἐν Λαρυσυνίοις καί might be a possible alternative for the 15 letters in Crampa’s version, 11 of which are either uncertain or restored. The University Library of Uppsala, through the care of Pontus Hellström, now holds a fair number of Crampa’s Labraunda squeezes, a bequest of Crampa’s widow in 2007. The squeeze of I.Labraunda 3 is unfortunately so illegible for the relevant lines that nothing could be gained from it. Pontus Hellström has, however, produced a magnified photograph of these lines taken from the original glass plate negatives, which, although of no better quality than the photos printed in the actual volume, nevertheless has allowed for a slightly improved reading (fig. 1). At the beginning of l. 12, ἐν Λαρυσυνίοις καί can be read in its entirety, faintly, but without doubt.Given the similarity between the two texts, we should also question Crampa’s suggested read-ing for the beginning of l. 11, where [κ]α̣[θ]ό̣[τι] ἀ̣[ξι]ο̣ῦ̣σι̣ seems uncertain enough. But here the match is not perfect. Before τὰ ὑπάρχοντα it is just possible to read ΑΣΥΛΑ as well as an alpha preceding it, but before that (and even though Crampa read a dotted alpha as the second letter), I cannot be certain to read anything other than [. .]ΥΙ[. . .]2. In any case, about 9 letters should be restored to the left of ΑΣΥΛΑ, which is too many for the five required by ΤΑΙΕΡ. I therefore offer the following (improved but still unsatisfactory) reading for I.Labraunda 3, 10–14:Fig. 1. Photo of I.Labraunda 3, 10–13 (P. Hellström, from the original glass plate of J. Crampa)10    κα[ὶ] ὅ̣τι συνδιατηρήσω Μυλασεῦσιν11 [. .]ΥΙ[. . .]Α ἄ̣συ̣̣λ̣α̣ τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῖς ἐν τῆι χώραι τά τε 12 ἐν Λαρυσυνίοις καὶ τὸ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Λαβραύνδου καὶ τἆλλα13 [π]άντα κ̣αὶ τὴν̣ χώρ̣α̣ν τήν τε κατὰ ‹Λ›αβ̣ρ̣άυνδα καὶ τὴν ἄλλην τ̣[ὴν]14 [ο]ὖ̣σα̣̣ν̣ [α]ὐ̣τ̣[ῶν] κ̣α̣ὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τὰ ἐπικεχωρημένα πάντα.Riet van Bremen1 The Μυλασέων in 137, 8, correspond acceptably to [α]ὐ̣τ̣[ῶν] in 3, 14, where Crampa’s restoration seems the only possible one.2 The ypsilon is clear on the photograph; it is followed by an upright.

Appendix: I.Labraunda 137, 3–6 and I.Labraunda 3, 10–13

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Appendix: I.Labraunda 137, 3–6 and I.Labraunda 3, 10–13

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