IGII2 379 Decree honouring a military figure

Decree honouring a military figure

IG II² 379 Date: After ca. 304 BC

. . . . . . and for his love of honour (philotimias), and having won the anthippasia contest . . . he crowned the tribe Erechtheis (5) and for this his tribesmen both praised him and crowned him with a gold crown, and the cavalry similarly praised him and crowned him with a gold crown and a bronze statue for his [excellence (aretēs)?] (10) and love of honour (philotimias) towards themselves.^[1] And when again he was elected [leader?] of the mercenaries (xenous) in the archonship of Arch[ippos] (321/0 or 318/7),^[2] he took care of the mercenary force so that it was organised in the best way possible . . .

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References:

IG II² 379 (Translated text) (PHI)

SEG 45.84 (PHI)

Tracy, ADT 168 (ll. 3, 11, 12)

Translation by: Stephen Lambert, Chris de Lisle

Images: Krateros - (1)

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Decree (Council and People?)

Findspot: Acropolis? (EM 12404)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] The honorand had apparently served as commander of the tribal cavalry contingent (phylarch) for Erechtheis in the anthippasia competition, on which see IG II³ 4, 252. It is usually supposed that this is a decree of the Assembly, but this is not certain; decrees relating to the cavalry were passed by a wide range of different bodies, e.g. Agora XVI 203 (tribe? NB the tribal sanctuary of Erechtheis, l. 4, was on the acropolis), SEG 21.525 (cavalry), SEG 46.167 (Tarantinoi), SEG 48.122 (prodromoi). On the significance of the honorand “crowning his tribe” (l. 4) cf. Agora XVI 203 n. 1. [2] The position might be restored as “general of the mercenaries” (strategos epi tous xenous), one of the ten annual generalships. This inscription would be the earliest attestation of the position. Alternatively, the text could be restored as “commander of the mercenaries” (hegemon epi tous xenous), i.e. the leader of a contingent of mercenaries (cf. e.g. I Eleusis 196, l. 94). Archippos was the name of both the archon of 321/0 and that of 318/7 BC. Tracy, ADT 168 (SEG 45.84), identifies the inscriber as the "Cutter of Agora I 4266", active 304-271 BC.

Added: 2 Apr 2019
Updated: 15 Oct 2020
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