By A. G. Woodhead
Edited texts, with wide remark, of a few 344 fragments of Attic decrees relationship from the mid-5th century B.C. to A.D. 203, present in excavations of the Athenian Agora ahead of 1967, with short notes on extra fabric came upon as much as 1975. Well-documented discussions of person archon years are provided on the applicable issues within the chronological association. In a box identified for controversy, the writer studies the crucial readings, restorations, and interpretations, attaining a stability among severe positions.
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Vert. 0145 m. For the measurements of separate fragments Walbank, locc. ci#. hta, and IG IS, 182. Walbank assessed the total height of the stele (excluding fragment c) as now s u ~ v i n gat ca. 65 m. and the width at ca. 62 m. Ed. a: IG I ~ 122, , with earlier bibliography. a+b: B. D. Meritt, Hes* 14, 1945, pp. 129-1 32, no. 16, with photographs of squeezes (cf. SEG X, 131). c: IG I*, 156, with earlier bibliography. c+d: E. Schweigert, Hespnia 7, 1938, pp. 269-270, no. 4, with photograph (see SEG X, 79, with references also to A.
4-5 and 32-33, no. 9; SEG XXXIX, 324 and the reference there given. D. M. Lewis (cf. ZG I ~believes ) that more letters may be missing on the left of line 1 than are here shown. This, if so, would affect the restoration of lines 2-3. C. A. E. Raubitschek (Hcsperia 12, 1943, p. 27, note 57) regarded IG 13, 167 (I2, 149) as by the same hand; on this see D. W. Bradeen and M. E McGregor, Studies in Ffi-Century A h Ewaaphy, 1973, p. 102, note 2. M. B. Walbank (Athian Roxenies, p. 231; cf. p. 51, note 21) has added IG I ~ 1042 , and 1180 (I2, 852 and 944), 1445 (SEG X, 112d), and probably, but less certainly, 168 (I2, 28); he is also inclined to assign 20 and IG 13, 165 to the same craftsman (op.
Line 20. bv rbv x6Aeov. Cf. Meisterhans-Schwyzer, Grammatik 3, pp. 2 14-2 15, 4 18, with notes 17201722. Lines 26-30. For the formula of invitation to public entertainment in the Prytaneion, see W. A. McDonald, AJA 59, 1955, pp. 151-1 55 and Lambrechts, DG A ~ Roxmicdccreh, m pp. 101-1 03. The details were later more fully explored by M. J. Osborne (ZPE 4 1, 1981, pp. 153-1 70; on this text esp. p. 157 with note 10) and by Henry (Antichhn 15, 1981, pp. 100-1 10 and Chimn 13, 1983, pp. 6 1-67; on this text esp.