Abbreviations

Durrbach = Durrbach, F., Choix d'inscriptions de Délos (Paris 1921–1923).Google Scholar

IDelos = Inscriptions de Délos (Paris 1926–1950) eds. Durrbach, F., Launey, M., Plassart, A., Roussel, P..Google Scholar

LGPN I = A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (Oxford 1987) eds. Fraser, P.M. and Matthews, E..Google Scholar

¹ We wish to thank Mrs Ph. Zapheiropoulou, ephor of the Cyclades, for her help and cooperation in this work, as well as members of her staff, in particular Marisa Marthari and Maria Panagopoulou, and the Archaeological Service guard on Melos, Mr Antonis Ninos. We also wish to thank the Director and staff of the British School for facilitating our work. The project, the results of which it is hoped will be published in the near future, was financed by grants from the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory; their support is gratefully acknowledged. In preparing this article we have benefitted greatly from the scholarly advice of Peter Fraser, who helped with the initial identification of the inscription, and Jim Coulton on architectural matters. They are of course not responsible for the views expressed here. We are further indebted to Peter Fraser and Elaine Matthews for access to the computerized material collected in the compilation of A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names.

² Other Delian inscriptions, particularly gravestones from Rheneia, have wandered in various directions; see Délos XXX, 1–2, 38–40.

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⁶ The site was shown to GDRS by two of the elder inhabitants along with various other former church sites. They recall what became of the church remains which were still in situ ‘many years ago’.

⁷ IDelos 1552, 1562–3, 1569–74, 1576, 1581–3, 1902–3; Durrbach nos. 133–6.

⁸ Chapouthier, F., Délos XVI. Le Sanctuaire des Dieux de Samothrace (Paris 1935).Google Scholar Summary accounts of the Monument and the sanctuary may be found in Bruneau, P., Récherches sur les cultes de Délos à l'époque hellénistique et à l'époque impériale (BEFAR 217. Paris 1970) 379–99Google Scholar and Bruneau, P. and Ducat, J., Guide de Délos (3rd edition. Paris 1983) 221–3 nos. 93–4.Google Scholar The Monument is also discussed by Gross, W.H., Antike und Abendland 4 (1954) 105–17.Google Scholar

⁹ This dimension is given in Délos XVI, fig. 42 facing P. 34.

¹⁰ Délos XVI, 34–5.

¹¹ Roussel, P., Délos colonie athénienne (Paris 1916) 427 no. 46aGoogle Scholar; Durrbach no. 133.

¹² This figure is reached by adding the interior width at the top of the wall (4.40) to the combined thicknesses of the side-walls as represented by the tops of the antae (0.26 and 0.315). In his restored plan of the building (Délos XVI, 41 fig. 55), Chapouthier makes it 4.96 m wide at stylobate level; in his restoration of the entablature (op.cit. fig. 42 facing p. 34), he makes it 4.95 m wide at the bottom of the architrave.

¹³ Op.cit., 35 with fig. 42.

¹⁴ IDelos 1902; Durrbach no. 135. On the date of Echekrates see Dinsmoor, W.B., The Archons of Athens in the Hellenistic Age (Cambridge 1931) 276–7Google Scholar; also Pritchett, W.K. and Meritt, B.D., The Chronology of Hellenistic Athens (Cambridge 1940) p. xxxv.Google Scholar

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¹⁷ See LGPN I, svv ᾿Αγαϑάναξ, ᾿Αγεάναξ, ᾿Αγησιάναξ, ᾿Αγορᾶναξ, ᾿Αμφιάναξ, ᾿Αριστᾶναξ, ᾿Αρχεάναξ, ᾿Αστυάναξ, Βουλα̑ναξ, Εὐφρα̑ναξ, Θεμισοτᾶναξ, Θεσπιάναξ, Καλλιάναξ, Κλεᾶναξ, Κοσμησιάναξ, Κυδᾶναξ, Νιϰᾶναξ, Πεισιάναξ, Στασιάναξ, Σωσιάναξ, Τελεσιάναξ, Τιμᾶναξ, Τιμασιάναξ, Φειδιάναξ.

¹⁸ See LGPN I, 28, 201.

¹⁹ RE sv cols. 66–9.

²⁰ IDelos 1903; Durrbach 215; Délos XVI, 33 no. 7 and fig. 36.

²¹ In the fifth century Athens had established a clerouchy at Amisos; its connections with Sinope are evident from the presence of a number of Sinopeans at Athens: see Pope, H., Foreigners in Attic Inscriptions (Philadelphia 1947) 147.Google Scholar Rhodes also had close links with Sinope in the third and early second centuries as shown by its attempts to protect the city from the aggression of the Pontic kings. During the third century some coins of Sinope were overstruck with a head of Helios, the emblem of Rhodian coinage: see Waddington, W.H., Récueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie Mineure I (2nd edition. Paris 1925) 203 nos. 46 and 48.Google Scholar In the same period Amisos was minting on the Rhodian standard: see Waddington, op.cit., 53, 61–2. On Sinope's foreign relations see McGing, B.C., The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator King of Pontus (Mnemosyne Suppl. 89. Leiden 1986) 3 with n.10Google Scholar; for Rhodes' attempts to protect Sinope see pp. 23, 25–6.

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²³ Attributes of the Dioskouroi are prominent on the coinage of the cities of Pontos during Mithradates' reign: see McGing, op.cit., 54, 85 n.69, 94.

²⁴ Kimoliaka 8 (1978) 297.

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