AIUK45 no. 2 Dedication commemorating an award of crowns

Dedication commemorating an award of crowns

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 2 Date: ca. 350-300 BC

Olive crown In olive crown The People.^[1]

Olive crown

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AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 2 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

GIBM I 16

Translation by: Peter Liddel, Polly Low

AIO Images: 1 2

Monument type: Block

Inscription type: Dedication (public)

Findspot: Acropolis (BM 1843,0531.37)

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[1] This inscription derives from the collection of Henry William Inwood (1794-1843), who travelled to Greece in 1819, studying architecture and collecting antiquities. Upon his death, his inscriptions (Attic and non-Attic), marble sculpture (including material from the area of the Erechtheion), ceramics and prints were sold to the British Museum. On his collection, see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary) section 2 (forthcoming).

The inscribed face of this block contains, carved in low relief, a single complete inscribed olive crown containing the inscription. To its left is the upper-right quadrant of another olive crown; and, to the lower right of the block, the top of a third crown. Hicks noted only the upper two crowns and suggested that they were from the bottom of an honorific decree of the Council and People, as for example AIUK 4.2 no. 12. Given the absence of any textual remains of a decree, we prefer to classify this stone as a dedication. A dedicatory text was perhaps included elsewhere on the monument: compare IG II³ 4, 84 (329/8 BC), a dedication by a court president (thesmothetes) who was the recipient of honours, which contains a text including the name of the dedicant, two olive crowns beneath this inscribed with ὁ δῆμος (left) and ἡ βουλή (right), a crown on the left side inscribed οἱ φυλέται and a crown on the right side inscribed [οἱ δημότ]αι. For another inscribed block, described as the epistyle of a circular monument with ὁ δῆμος inscribed within a crown, which was found on the Akropolis, see SEG 43.113.

For fuller discussion of this inscription see AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications), no. 2.

Added: 15 Mar 2022
Updated: 15 Mar 2022
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