Some Attic Inscriptions

Abstract

The inscriptions discussed are: (i) that on the prytany monument Agora xv. 44, (ii) EM 13056, officials for the cult of Athene Pallenis, and (iii) some rock-cut horos inscriptions from the vicinity of Thiti and on Kaminia and Alepovouni. In (i) it is argued that the two additional lines calculated for the completion of column x (referring to Antiochis) were not for ‘missing’ demes but to mark off the trittyes from each other; (ii) presents a discussion of the parasitoi, identified as individuals of high status, and of the sets of archontes; (iii) are taken to refer to a new concern in Hellenistic times with the boundaries between areas of value for agriculture or grazing. The implication of these for the study of the Kleisthenic system of trittyes and demes is argued.

Some Inscriptions in Attic demes

“…75 I argued for this interpretation at greater length, suggesting in addition that the series of six OPjTIM inscriptions near Thiti were similarly an attempt to keep members of one deme (Pambotadai) on their side of the ridge. 76 The interpretation of such horoi as marking parts of boundaries between demes has been greatly strengthened by the publication in 1986 of J. S. Traill's register of rupestral horoi. 11 For he reported unpublished discoveries which indicate that more series of such horoi exist than has been generally recognized.…”

“…101 The major difficulty for both interpretations remains the fact that for consistency 6p(og) Jt(apaA,iag xal) [x^aoyaiac;) requires a word-divider after II as well as after OP. 102 I suggested that the inscriptions indicated the boundary of the deme Pambotadai, a suggestion rejected by Traill. 103 He pointed out that Pambotadai is a most insignificant deme; but it is surely possible that a stronger deme told a less significant one to keep off its territory, as perhaps was the case with the Likavitos horoi (no.…”

“…Lamptrai) belong to coastal trittyes, it does not follow that his omission of a deme precludes it from being coastal. Secondly, Langdon puts against Lauter's assignment of the deme centre at Kitsi to Upper Lamptrai the argument that the Lombarda valley (what I called 'the valley which runs down to Aghia Marina') 106 must be assigned to the deme at Kitsi because 'it has no deme site of its own'. 107 However, the remains in this valley cited by M. Mitsos, which Langdon regards as too insignificant for a deme with nine representatives in the Council of Five Hundred, may be sufficient for Pambotadai (with one representative).…”