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II.—Excavations at Sparta, 1906: § 8.—The Stamped Tiles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

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During the excavations along the course of the city wall a great number of fragments of tiles with stamped inscriptions were found. The majority, about a hundred in all, including several examples of the same stamp, came from the well by the Heroön (cf. p. 286). Many were found on the line of the wall further south, and many more in the Artemisium: a few by the Altar and in trial-pits north of the carriage road. It is by no means uncommon to find inscribed tiles in Greece; but in this respect the excavations at Sparta have so far easily surpassed all previous finds. The inscriptions are for the most part easy to read and intelligible, and fall into different classes, which in their turn sub-divide themselves into varieties.

Type
Laconia
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1906

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page 344 note 1 Described in § 4 of this Report.

page 344 note 2 It is interesting to note that Laconian tiles were specified to be used in repairs to the walls of the Piraeus, , I.G. II. i. 167, 6. 69.Google Scholar

page 344 note 3 Perhaps the τύπος ξύλινος κεραμίδων of the Delian inventory was sucha stamp: B.C.H. 1882, p. 48, l. 172. Paris (Elatée, p. 116) thinks the stamp was cut in the mould: it is not yet certain if this was the case at Sparta.

page 345 note 1 Ten specimens all from the well, Inv. Nos. 2342, 2343 + 2387, 2354, 2355, 2382, 2388, 2401, 2420, 2425, 2434.

page 345 note 2 Five specimens from the well, Inv. Nos. 2340, 2341, 2347, 2353, 2463.

page 345 note 3 Three specimens from the well, all from the same stamp, Inv. Nos. 2338, 2344, 2427.

page 345 note 4 One specimen from the well, Inv. No. 2433.

page 345 note 5 Two specimens from the same stamp, from the well, Inv. Nos. 2352, 2416 + 2422.

page 345 note 6 Thirteen specimens, most from the same stamp, from the well, Inv. Nos. 2337, 2339, 2345, 2346, 2348, 2349, 2350, 2351, 2417, 2418, 2419, 2436, 2456.

page 345 note 7 Two specimens from same stamp, both from the well, Inv. Nos. 2442, 2458.

page 346 note 1 Four specimens, all from same stamp, whose wooden character is most marked; three are from the well, the fourth (2470) from a hill by Magoula, where it is possible to conjecture that the wall ran, Inv. Nos. 2384, 2437, 2444, 2470. The beginning of the same is perhaps to be found in two fragments both from the same stamp (one (2385) from the well, the other (2471) from the same hill at Magoula) which read

page 346 note 2 One specimen, Inv. No. 2398, from the well.

page 346 note 3 Inv. No. 2078.

page 346 note 4 Sparta Mus. Cat. 712.

page 346 note 5 Gardner, and others, Megalopolis, pp. 140, 4.Google Scholar

page 346 note 6 Fränkel, , Inschriften v. P. ii. Nos. 724, 728.Google Scholar

page 346 note 7 Richardson ap. Waldstein, , Argive Heraeum, i. p. 218, 4.Google Scholar

page 346 note 8 Paris, Élatée, p. 112, 10.

page 346 note 9 Athen. Mitt. 1879, p. 144.

page 346 note 10 B.C.H. 1888, p. 356.

page 346 note 11 B.C.H. 1887, p. 209, 4.

page 346 note 12 Paris, Élatée, p. 113.

page 346 note 13 Fougères, , Mantinée, p. 539.Google Scholar

page 346 note 14 Richardson, op. cit. p. 217.

page 346 note 15 Fränkel, op.cit. ii. No. 645, inscribed ΤΕΙΧΩΝ only.

page 346 note 16 Three specimens, Inv. Nos. 2214, 2370, 2408; the two latter from the same stamp. One (2214) is from the altar, the other two from the well.

page 346 note 17 Six specimens, all from the same stamp, Inv. Nos. 2293, 2356, 2357, 2358, 2414, 2426. Two, 2293 and 2414, which are stamped twice, are from the wall nortli of the altar, the others from the well.

page 347 note 1 See the lists given by Boeckh, in the C.I.G. i. pp. 606 f.Google Scholar, and by Le Bas-Foucart, p. 109. Some of the Elataea tiles are dated in the same way, Paris, v., Élatée, pp. 113seqq.Google Scholar

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page 347 note 3 At Priene the State owned tile-works; for tiles inscribed ΠΟΛΕΩΣ and ΔΡΟΜωΝΟC ΠΟΛΕωC were found there; Gaertringen, Hiller von, Inschriften v.P., 359, 9, 10, 26, 27.Google Scholar

page 347 note 4 Xenophon, , Hellenica, vi. 5. 27Google Scholar; Pausanias, iii. 19. 7.

page 347 note 5 One specimen, Inv. No. 2371, from the well.

page 347 note 6 Two specimens, Inv. Nos. 2281, 2430; the first from trial pits north of the carriage road, the other from the well.

page 347 note 7 One specimen, Inv. No. 2454, from the Heroön.

page 347 note 8 Six specimens, Inv. Nos. 2377, 2368, 2423, 2424, 2435, 2438, 2446 + 2453, all from the same stamp, and from the well.

page 348 note 1 Eight specimens, Inv. Nos. 2228, 2240, 2258, 2259, 2260, 2272, 2273, 2450; the first seven from the line of the wall by the Heroön, the other from the well: cf. Ross, , Inserr. Graec. Ined, i. 50.Google Scholar

page 348 note 2 Forty-nine certain specimens of this stamp have been found at the Heroön, the Artemisium, the Theatre, and elsewhere: the majority have so far been discovered on the line of the city wall.

page 348 note 3 S.M.C., p. 28.

page 348 note 4 Twelve specimens, Inv. Nos. 2127, 2192, 2278, 2329, and 2407 are from the same stamp; 2334 is from a different stamp; the rest are uncertain 2313, 2315, 2321, 2322, 2331, 2469. All are from the Artemisium.

page 348 note 5 Fourteen specimens, Inv. Nos. 2177, 2177B, 2205, and 2330 are from one stamp; 2193 and 2314 are from another: the rest 2188, 2316, 2319, 2320, 2432, 2441, 2467, and 2468 are doubtful. All are from the Artemisium.

page 348 note 6 Four specimens, all from the Artemisium, Nos. 2226, 2318, 2323, 2406; the last three are from the same stamp.

page 348 note 7 Two specimens, one 2294 from the Artemisium, the other 2287 from the city wall by Tagari's garden.

page 349 note 1 One specimen, from the city wall by Tagari's garden, Inv. No. 2286.

page 349 note 2 Paris, , Élatée, p. 183Google Scholar, cf. the tiles stamped ΙΕΡΑ found at the temple at Abae, , J.H.S. 1896, p. 298.Google Scholar

page 349 note 3 Paris, op. cit. p. 82.

page 349 note 4 Sparta Mus. Cat. Nos. 636–642, 644: cf. Richardson op. Waldstein, , Argive Heraeum, I. p. 216Google Scholar; van Hook, , Berl. Phil. Woch. 1904, p. 1470.Google Scholar

page 349 note 5 Fränkel, , Inschriften v. P. ii. Nos. 641, 645, 646.Google Scholar

page 349 note 6 Sparta Mus. Cat. Nos. 276, 535, 712.

page 349 note 7 Gardner, and others, Megalopolis, p. 140, 1, 4.Google Scholar

page 349 note 8 Fougères, , B.C.H. 1890, p. 255Google Scholar; Id. Mantitiée, p. 191.

page 349 note 9 Δελτίον 1889, p. 160.

page 349 note 10 Richardson, op. cit. p. 217.

page 349 note 11 They might also be rendered Tegulae publicae ex officina Herae on the analogy of type 11. This would mean that there were tile-works attached to the Argive Heraeum. But this is very unlikely.

page 349 note 12 Paris, , Élatée, p. 115Google Scholar; the tiles from the Heroön of Podares at Mantineia are inscribed ΠΟΔΑΡΕΟΣ ΔΑ[ΜΟΣΙΟΣ] Fougères, v., Mantinée, p. 191.Google Scholar

page 349 note 13 Homolle, , B.C.H. 1882, pp. 135, 136.Google Scholar

page 350 note 1 Pausanias, iii. 17. 1.

page 350 note 2 A.J.A. 1904, p. 170.

page 350 note 3 J.H.S. 1893, p. 336.

page 350 note 4 Cavvadias, , Fouilles d'Epidaure, I., p. 107, 247.Google Scholar

page 350 note 5 Macpherson, , Antiquities of Kertch, pp. 72, 75.Google Scholar

page 350 note 6 Fränkel, , Inschriften v. P. ii. No. 642.Google Scholar

page 350 note 7 Fränkel, op. cit. Nos. 652 seqq.

page 350 note 8 Wolters, , Athen. Mitt. 1898, p. 139Google Scholar: cf. the coin inscription, Wroth, , Num. Chron. 1897, p. 107.Google ScholarΒΑΙΛΕΙ is the Doric form for βασιλεῖ due to the dropping of Σ between two vowels: in earlier inscriptions an aspirate Β would appear between the vowels; v. Collitz-Bechtel, 4421, 4422; Meister, , Dorer u. Achäer. p. 11.Google Scholar

page 350 note 9 Pausanias, vii. 8. 5.