AIO 1190 Honours for Athenian members of the resistance to the Thirty, 401/0 BC

Honours for Athenian members of the resistance to the Thirty, 401/0 BC

AIO 1190 Date: 401/0 BC

[The following dedicated this, having captured?] Phyle [and having brought back the People?]^[1]

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[Erechtheis^I] Names not preserved [Aigeis^II] Names not preserved - son of - of Gargettos [Pandionis^III] [Thrasyboulos son of Lykos of] [Steir]ia (25) . . . of Paiania - son of -onides of Probalinthos - son of -menes of Myrrhinous - son of -des of Angele . . . of Kytherros

(30) [Leontis^IV] . . . of Paionidai - son of -phron of Phrearrhioi - son of -kios of Sounion - son of Dionysios of -

(35) [Akamantis^V] -os son of Diodoros of - -ates son of Timo- of Hermos

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[Oineis^VI] . . . of Acharnai (40) . . . of Acharnai . . . of Acharnai - son of Glaukippos of Lakiadai -os son of Hierios of Phyle - son of Antikrates of Phyle (45) - son of Eudemos of Phyle - son of -demos of Phyle . . . of Phyle Names not preserved?

[Kekropis^VII] (50) Names not preserved? -mokl- . . . Smikron . . . Euphorion . . . Sophilos . . .

(55) Hippothontis^VIII Archin[os son of - of Koile] Oinei[des ...]

Aiantis^IX Andro- . . . (60) Eukle- . . . -imon . . . . . . . . . D- . . . (65) Ly- . . . An- . . . Pol- . . . Kn- . . .

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E- . . . (70) G- . . . . . . . . .

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These for their excellence (aretēs) the People of the ancient land of Athens rewarded with crowns, who began first (75) to thwart those who once ruled the city with unjust laws, braving danger with their bodies.

[The People decided. Xenainet]os was archon (401/0). Pandionis^III was the prytany, - was secretary, Ke- was chairman, Ar[chinos proposed:] . . . . . . the - of the . . . . . . . . .

The small fragment d+e preserves no complete word

Greek text

References:

AIO 1190 (Translated text) (AIO)

SEG 52.45

SEG 28.45 (PHI)

Malouchou, Eνεπίγραφο βάθρο, 115-144

Malouchou, Grammateion 2015, 89-98 (Grammateion)

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Images: Agora Excavations - (1, 2, 3, 4)
Ohio - (1)

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Dedication (People?), Decree (People)

Original location: [Agora, Metroon]

Fragment a - Findspot: Agora, close to Metroon (Ag. I 18)
Fragment b - Findspot: Agora, close to Metroon (Ag. I 17)
Fragment c - Findspot: Agora, close to Metroon (Ag. I 16a)
Fragment d - Findspot: Agora, close to Metroon (Ag. I 16b)
Fragment e - Findspot: Agora, close to Metroon (Ag. I 93)
Fragment f - Findspot: Acropolis (EM 2756)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] In 401/0 Athens honoured foreigners who had supported democracy against the Thirty, RO 4, and here she honoured also those Athenians who had formed the core of Thrasyboulos’ resistance force. In 330, arguing against the proposed award of a crown to Demosthenes, Aischines gives a full account of this inscription (3.186-90) in the context of a review of monuments in the Agora commemorating the great deeds of Athenians of the past. He locates it in the Metroon (the former Council chamber), near to which most of the surviving fragments were indeed found, mentions the proposer, Archinos of Koile (“one of those who restored the democracy”), and states that the honorands (“those who restored the People in exile from Phyle”) were awarded 1,000 dr. for sacrifices and dedications (less than 10 drachmas a man [possibly an exaggeration]) and foliage crowns (“in those days the foliage crown was valued highly, while now even the gold crown has come to be despised”). He also reports that the decree stipulated that the award be made only after careful enquiry by the Council as to the identities of those who were besieged in Phyle by the Spartans and the Thirty, and (190) has the epigram on the monument (ll. 73-76) read out in court. The base probably supported a statue (personification of the People or Democracy?). There are dedications from the first half of the fourth century by boards of Athenian officials commemorating the award of honours (sometimes, as here, the dedication was publicly funded); but to honour a group of private citizens in this way was unique, and inscribing dedications with the text of the decree only became normal practice in the 340s (cf. IG II³ 1, 301). For a decree (in effect) honouring those who had been victims of the earlier oligarchic regime of 411, the Four Hundred, see OR 178.

Added: 10 Jan 2017
Updated: 8 Jan 2024
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