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A Dedication to Artemis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

G. F. Hill
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The coin of Sicyon, of the obverse of which a drawing by Mr. F. Anderson (made over a photograph) is given here, has been twice published both times by Professor Percy Gardner.

The inscription on the obverse, which lends special interest to this piece, is unique among adscititious inscriptions upon Greek coins, not only in its elaborate character, but in the manner of its execution. Such inscriptions are in other cases graffiti, scratched with a point; this is pricked into the metal with a pointed instrument.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 18 , November 1898 , pp. 302 - 305
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1898

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References

page 302 note 1 Numismatic Chronicle, 1873, p. 183 (Pl. VII. Fig. 5, from a drawing by F. Lees); Brit. Mus. Catal. Peloponnesus, p. 41, no. 65, (Pl. VII. 26, autotype).

page 302 note 2 They have been collected by Lenormant, F., Revue Numism. 1874–1877, pp. 325Google Scholar f. To his list add the coins of Pheneus, , J.H.S. xvii. p. 83Google Scholar, and Corinth, , Rev. Num. 1898Google Scholar, p. xliii, and B. M. Catal. Corinth, nos. 8, 131, 226.

page 303 note 1 ‘Drawer of the bow,’ ‘deliverer from trouble,’ ‘helper in childbirth.’ It is also questionable whether is a possible formation; and the termination would at any rate have a passive force.

page 304 note 1 Cp. (undoubtedly the right restoration) Olympia Inschr. 252. In other cases the double is written: Olympia, no. 171; Meister, , Gr. Dial.- Inschriften, 4430Google Scholar. But its omission is in accordance with the rule which gives us and other single writings of double letters.

page 304 note 2 In which occurs in an inscription on a metal vessel (Hoffmann, , Gr. Dial.-Inschr. 1600Google Scholar; Purgold, , Arch. Zeitung xl. (1882) p. 393Google Scholar), the first is probably omitted by a mere accident. The epithet preceding should perhaps be completed for the worship of Artemis at Aigeira see Paus. vii. 26. 2 f.

page 304 note 3 No instances are given by Simon, J., Abkürzungen auf gr. Inschr. in the Zeitschr. f. d. österreich. Gymnasien, 1891, p. 673Google Scholar ff. For a form like for (p. 709), even if the restoration were certain, would hardly count.

page 304 note 4 Numism. Chron. 1898, p. 5.

page 304 note 5 E.g. Mionnet, iii. p. 190, no. 917; Stipp. vi. p. 302, no. 1391.

page 304 note 6 Grenfell, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment etc., no. 24.

page 304 note 7 Mr. Kenyon points out that there is room for more than and that the word appears to be very cursively written.

page 304 note 8 E.g. at Perinthus, , Berlin, Beschr. d. ant. Münzen, i. p. 214Google Scholar, nos. 41, 43.

page 304 note 9 J.H.S. 1897, p. 82; Jannaris, , Historical Greek Grammar, § 301Google Scholar, 302.

page 304 note 10 Journal International d'Arch. Numism. i. (1898), pp. 15 f.