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Some Lydian Propitiatory Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

W. H. Buckler
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Of the six following inscriptions the first is new, the other five are already known. These five are here republished because they all have some features in common with the first and appear to be worthy of fresh study.

I.: Small stele of grey marble belonging to Athanasios Dürekoglu; photographed and copied by me at Kula in June 1914. Height 66 cm.; width at top 32 cm., at bottom 42 cm.; thickness 6 cm. A clean break runs across the middle. Above the following text, which is perfectly preserved, is a sunken panel, on which are represented a pair of eyes and below these a pair of pigeons in low relief. (Plate XV, 1.)

This is one of those propitiatory monuments, found almost exclusively in Maeonia and S.W. Phrygia, which were dedicated by penitents at various sanctuaries to commemorate specific sins and the penalties inflicted by the gods.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 21 , November 1916 , pp. 169 - 183
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1916

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page 170 note 1 The inscriptions copied in the three journeys made by these scholars will here be cited as K.P. I, K.P. II, or K.P. III, followed by the number of the text. All are published in the same Denkschriften, 1908–1914.

page 170 note 2 Crusius, O. in SBer. Bayer. Akad., phil-hist. Kl. 1910, 4, p, 114, note 2Google Scholar, draws attention to the fact that these inscriptions mention the δυνἁμεις not the ἀρεταὶ of the gods. This observation is no longer true.

page 171 note 1 Cf. ὲχ τοῦἂλσου(ς) ἒκοψα δὲμδπα θεῶν Μουσεῖον 1878–80, p. 164; Σὰλβιος ...ὰνὲθηκεν Μητρὶ ᾿Αναtτιδι τὴν περιοικοδομὴν πᾶσαν καὶ τὸ ᾶλσος Ath. Mitt. xiv, 1889, p. 106, n. 56.

page 178 note 1 On the difference between these oaths, see Dig. xii, 2, 31, and comments of Demelius, , Schiedseid u. Beweiseid, 1887, pp. 94, 104.Google Scholar

page 182 note 1 Γαλλικός = Gallic, not Galatian, which is Γαλλικὸς