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§ XI.—Hellenistic Mycenae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

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Among the ruins of the Hellenistic buildings at the south end of the Great Ramp, in the fourth or southern chamber (Pl. I. 34), three fragments of a stele (now in the Nauplia Museum) were found. The stele is of a simple and common type, and is made of the same white limestone as the other Mycenaean stele found by Tsountas, which it closely resembles even in its weathering. Except for the top left-hand corner and a gap on the right side the whole stele is preserved. It is ·969 m. in height, ·41–·436 m. in breadth (·41 m. at the ninth line of the inscription) and ·11–·125 m. thick. At the top there is a plain frieze, ·065 m. high : ·02 m. below the frieze begins an inscription which fills twenty lines and ends ·50 m. above the bottom of the stele. The letters are ·008–·01 m. high. The space between the lines is ·009–·011 m. The surface of the stone is very much worn, and it was consequently difficult to make out the letters and their accurate forms. The sketch (Fig. 93) shows the arrangement of the text.

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Excavations at Mycenae
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1923

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page 410 note 1 Cf. Mnemosyne, xliii. 1915, p. 366Google Scholar.

page 410 note 2 Mnemosyne, xliii. pp. 366Google Scholar ff.; xliv. pp. 64 ff., 219 ff. Cf. the collection given by Schwyzer, in his Dialectorum graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora (Leipzig, 1923), pp. 40Google Scholar ff., and the list of material in Bechtel's, Die griechischen Dialekte, ii. (Berlin, 1923), pp. 437Google Scholar ff. For the dialect see especially Bechtel, ibid., Mnemosyne, xliv. pp. 69 ff., and the summaries given by Buck, in his Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects, p. 148Google Scholar, and by Thumb, , Handbuch der griechischen Dialekte, pp. 106Google Scholar ff. See also the monographs by von Friesen and Hanisch (Friesen, v., Ueber die Sprache der argeischen Dialektinschriften, Språkvetenskapliga sällskapets förhandlingar, 18941897, UpsalaGoogle Scholar; Hanisch, , De titulorum argolicorum dialecto, Göttingen, 1903)Google Scholar.

page 410 note 3 See below, p. 422.

page 411 note 1 Dittenb, . Syll.3 56Google Scholar; cf. Bechtel, , Die griechischen Dialekte (quoted below as Bechtel), p. 440Google Scholar; Mnemosyne, xliv. p. 70Google Scholar (ἰράνα naturally cannot be taken as an example, cf. Bechtel, p. 481).

page 411 note 2 I.G. iv. 497Google Scholar.

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page 411 note 4 Cf. ἀποδείξει, Mnemosyne, xliv. p. 220Google Scholar = Schwyzer, op. cit., No. 91; Bechtel, p. 497. In our inscription --- δη̑ (ξ)αι is a remarkably early instance of η for i; cf. Brugmann-Thumb, , Griech. Grammatik,4 pp. 35Google Scholar ff.

page 411 note 5 Bechtel, pp. 450 ff.; Thumb, op. cit., p. 107; Hanisch, op. cit., p. 28.

page 411 note 6 Mnemosyne, xliv. p. 65Google Scholar = Schwyzer, op. cit., p. No. 90.

page 411 note 7 Bechtel, pp. 462 ff., cf. p. 448.

page 411 note 8 Mnemosyne, xliii. p. 378Google Scholar; xliv. p. 65, 1. 20; cf. ibid., l. 11 and p. 221, l. 28: ἱερω̑ι.

page 411 note 9 Bechtel, p. 446, In later Argive inscriptions Θεο-: Jahresh. (Beiblatt) 1911, p. 146Google Scholar.

page 412 note 1 In I.G. iv. 498Google Scholar the restoration of the first line [Θεοι̑ς· ὑσ]τεραίαι is clearly incorrect. To ὑττεραίαι πρατομηνίας the name of a month is required, and there is room enough for a restoration such as [᾿Αρνήου ὑσ]τεραίαι κ.τ.λ. That Θεός is by no means a necessary opening is shown by the Argive decrees, Mnemosyne, xliii. pp. 366Google Scholar ff.

page 412 note 2 See my paper,. Der Argivische Kalender (Upsala Universitets Årsskrift, 1922, 1, pp. 50Google Scholar ff.).

page 412 note 3 Brandis' suggestion (Pauly-Wissowa, Vol. V. p. 2174) is incorrect.

page 413 note 1 Cf. Mnemosyne, xliii. p. 372Google Scholar, xliv. p. 221; I.G. xii. 3, 1259Google Scholar.

page 413 note 2 Wilhelm, , Beiträge zur Griechischen Inschriftenkunde, p. 110Google Scholar (Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der Akad. der Wissenschaften in Wien, 1921, xviiiGoogle Scholar).

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page 413 note 5 Revised on the stone in the National Museum, Athens : cf. Larfeld, , Griechische Epigraphik (Müllers Handbuch, i. 5), pp. 395Google Scholar ff.

page 414 note 1 Perhaps in I.G. iv. 497Google Scholar, l. 15 we should read :—

The restoration proposed in I.G., loc. cit. (καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ὑπάρχειν - -), though it has good parallels in Argive decrees (Mnemosyne, xliii. pp. 372Google Scholar ff), is somewhat difficult, as the phrase about the ἄλλοι εὐεργέται is already used in l. 13. Old connections existed between Argolis and Crete; cf. Dittenb, . Syll. 356Google Scholar; Schwyzer, op. cit. Nos. 83, 84.

page 414 note 2 ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ· 1887, p. 156.

page 414 note 3 Jahrbuch, 1901, p. 18Google Scholar; I.G. iv. 492Google Scholar.

page 415 note 1 ii. 36, 5. No stress can be laid upon Strabo's words (p. 372) about the entire destruction of Mycenae, as they are demonstrably exaggerated, and different stories were told about the taking of Mycenae. Diodorus (xi. 65) says that it was taken by storm; Pausanias (vii. 25, 5), in a fuller account, says that the Argives could not take the old walls of Mycenae by storm, but the Mycenaeans were compelled by lack of provisions to abandon the city (cf. Pausanias, ii, 16, 5). This latter version is in better agreement with the actual state of the monuments of Mycenae (e.g. the Lion Gate) and with the mention of the temple of Athena suggested in our inscription.

page 415 note 2 In I.G. iv. 498Google Scholar, l. 5 we should restore: [τὸν τα]μίαγ καὶ τὸγ γροΦέα τὸνς ἀ[ντιτυνχάνοντας].

page 415 note 3 Dittenb, . Syll. 3714, 558Google Scholar; G.D.I. 4154, l. 49, 5687, l. 20; cf. Larfeld, op. cit., pp. 410 ff.

page 415 note 4 Cf. also Lysias, 184, 11; Andocides, , De Myst. 147Google Scholar. ᾿Αποδεικνύναι occurs in the Argive decrees with the common meaning “assign,” Mnemosyne, xliv. pp. 221, 238Google Scholar (cf. Michel, 354, l. 10; G.D.I. 4689, l. 99).

page 416 note 1 The reasons for regarding these repairs as Hellenistic are set out above, pp. 10 ff. The angle of the polygonal tower collapsed some years back and one can no longer determine whether it was drafted like that of the tower at Asine, which would determine its Hellenistic date. We have examined many old photographs, but none gives definite evidence on this point.

page 416 note 2 Cf. above, p. 414.

page 416 note 3 Except in the Grave Circle: Schliemann at least makes no mention of any post-Mycenaean buildings above it, and this may be significant—see above, p. 126.

page 416 note 4 Cf. above, pp. 69 ff., 98 ff.

page 416 note 5 Cf. above, p. 37.

page 416 note 6 Tsountas-Manatt, , Myc. Age, p. 33Google Scholar.

page 416 note 7 Mycenae, p. 40.

page 416 note 8 Tsountas-Manatt, op. cit., p. xxvii.

page 417 note 1 Karten von Mykenai, Pl. II.; cf. the map in Baedeker's Greece.

page 417 note 2 Tsountas-Manatt, , Myc. Age, p. 33Google Scholar, Fig. 7.

page 417 note 3 Op. cit., p. 41.

page 417 note 4 See below, p. 423.

page 417 note 5 Cf. Livy, xxxiv. 22, 4 ff. As shown by the archaeological evidence the usual translation of κώμη “an unwalled village or country town,” which is mainly derived from Herodotus and Thucydides does not always hold good.

page 418 note 1 See above, p. 357.

page 418 note 2 Tsountas and Doerpfeld also believed the ruins to be a theatre.

page 418 note 3 Mentioned by Schliemann in his notebook.

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page 421 note 2 Cf. Plutarch, , Lycurgus, 27Google Scholar; B.S.A. xiii. p. 155Google Scholar.

page 421 note 3 We excavated also two small shallow shaft graves (about 1·00 m. by ·50 m.) cut in the rock: Tomb 501 near the L.H. III. Chamber Tomb 502, and Tomb 506 in the area north of the Treasury of Atreus. As nothing was found in either, it is impossible to suggest any date for them. To the south of the Tomb 502 a shaft grave, No. 503 (1·50 m. by ·40 m.), cut in the rock with a roof of stone slabs was excavated. It also contained nothing except a much-decayed skeleton facing east, so its date cannot be determined.

page 421 note 4 Cf. the Hellenistic tombs at Sparta, B.S.A. xiii. pp. 157Google Scholar ff.

page 421 note 5 Cf. B.S.A. xiii. p. 162Google Scholar; Keramopoullos, , ᾿Αρχ· Δελτ. iii.Google Scholar, Fig. 169 (7, 8).

page 421 note 6 B.S.A. xiii. p. 110Google Scholar, Fig. 1.

page 422 note 1 ii. 16, 5; v. 23, 3; vii. 25, 5, 6; viii. 27, 1; viii, 33, 2.

page 422 note 2 C. 372, 377.

page 422 note 3 xi. 65; cf. Anth. Pal. ix. 101Google Scholar.

page 422 note 4 ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ 1887, p. 159Google Scholar, where references to Schliemann will also be found. Cf. Aristotle, , Meteorologia, i. 14Google Scholar.

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page 422 note 6 ii. 18, 1, ἔχει(Perseus) δὴ καὶ ὲνταυ̑θα τιμὰς παρὰ τω̑ν προσχωρίων.

page 422 note 7 Electra, 170.

page 423 note 1 See the general remarks on the Hellenistic strata on pp. 10, 36 ff., 38 ff., 68 ff., 96 ff.

page 423 note 2 Plutarch, , Aratus, 29Google Scholar.

page 423 note 3 Plutarch, op. cit., 27.

page 423 note 4 See below, pp. 429 ff., and Frontispiece.

page 423 note 5 Livy, xxxii. 25.

page 423 note 6 Livy, xxxiv. 32.

page 423 note 7 I.G. iv. 497Google Scholar.

page 424 note 1 Livy, xxxii. 39 ff.

page 424 note 2 Livy, xxxiv. 22, 4–42. Id. xxxiv. 35 tells us that Flamininus demanded in the autumn: ut ex ea die intra decimum diem ab Argis ceterisque oppidis, quae in Argivorum agro essent, praesidia omnia deducerentur, etc.

page 424 note 3 xxxiv. 29.

page 424 note 4 Livy, xxxiv. 41.

page 425 note 1 Livy, xxxii, 38.

page 425 note 2 xxxiv. 48 ff. … has velut parentis voces cum audirent, manare omnibus gaudio lacrimae, adeo ut ipsum quoque confunderent dicentem. Paulisper fremitus approbantium dicta fuit, monentiumque aliorum alios, ut eas voces, velut oraculo missas, in pectora animosque demitterent.

page 426 note 1 Cf. Dareste, , Haussoullier, , Reinach, , Recueil des inscriptions juridiques grecques, ii. l, p. 143–2Google Scholar.

page 426 note 2 Cf. Strena Philologica Upsaliensis, 1922, pp. 271Google Scholar ff.

page 426 note 3 Cf. our inscription l. 15; I.G. iv. 497Google Scholar, l. 11 κωμέται, 498 l. 2.

page 426 note 4 Cf. Mnemosyne, xliv. pp. 53, 59, 221, 230, 232Google Scholar, and the list given by Schwyzer, op. cit., p. 46.

page 426 note 5 Cf. the inscription in Mnemosyne, xliv. p. 65Google Scholar; Schwyzer, op. cit., No. 90: ἀ[γ]γρϰ́ψαι(a new citizen) ἐ[ν]ς φυλὰν καὶ φὰτραν καὶ πεντηκοστύν.

page 427 note 1 Dittenb, . Syll. 356Google Scholar, l. 45; I.G. iv. 553Google Scholar. Vollgraff gives a list in Mnemosyne, xliv. pp. 56Google Scholar ff.; cf. Schwyzer, op. cit., p. 44.

page 427 note 2 Mnemosyne, xliii. p. 373Google Scholar. I.G. iv. 498Google Scholar reads Μυκανα[ι̑ος], but that is impossible, as Μυκανεύς is the regular form of the Mycenaean decrees; cf. our decree, ll. 3, 7; I.G. iv. 497Google Scholar, ll. 3, 7. Μυκα̑ναι, the name of the κώμα in the nominative, is exactly what is required according to the Argive evidence.

page 427 note 3 Cf. B.C.H. xxxiii. 1909, p. 191Google Scholar; F.H.G. iii. 376Google Scholar, 38.

page 427 note 4 Mnemosyne, xliii. pp. 366Google Scholar ff.; xliv. p. 221. Dittenb, . Syll. 356Google Scholar.

page 427 note 5 Cf. I.G. iv. 497Google Scholar.

page 428 note 1 ii. 16, 5.

page 428 note 2 v. 23, 3; viii. 33, 2. Cf. ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ. 1887, p. 160, and the description of Asine, ii. 36, 5.

page 428 note 3 We have a fragment of a grave stele of the Roman age from Mycenae (see above, p. 11), and cist graves of the same date are to be found on the Kalkani hill: one such was, in fact, found in the dromos of Tomb 531 and will be described with that tomb.