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A New Edition of Post-403 B.C. Athenian Inscriptions Funding: The Arts and Humanities Research Board Research Grant One of the more pressing needs in the study of Greek history is for a replacement for Johannes Kirchner's Inscriptiones Graecae corpus of Athenian inscriptions from after 403 BC (IG II2), to assemble the rich epigraphical finds from the American excavations in the Athenian Agora and from the work of Greek archaeologists since the Second World War. A new corpus embracing these documents will serve as a vital research tool for scholars and students alike. Over the last five years, steady progress has been made in preparing an international team of researchers to create a new corpus, culminating in the announcement in 1999 of a series of major funding initiatives. The first crucial step was the award by the Arts and Humanities Research Board of a five-year major grant to Liverpool University in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents to support the work of two Senior Research Fellows, Dr Graham Oliver and Dr Stephen Lambert, on preparing fascicles of Athenian state decrees for the first phase of the Corpus. Dr Oliver is based at the Centre in Oxford, Dr Lambert in Athens. The international project is founded on the extensive participation of Greek academics and the co-operation of Greek government institutions and learned societies. Without the support of Greek colleagues, a project of this nature on such a scale would not have been possible. The project is sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Overall supervision of the project lies with an Advisory Board made up of senior epigraphers, whose spokesperson is Professor J K Davies. An Editorial Committee has overall responsibility for the running of the project and the co-ordination of the editorial processes. The Committee consists of A P Matthaiou (Greece), S Lambert and G Oliver (UK); S Byrne (La Trobe, Australia) is an Associate Editor.
The new corpus (IG II3) will see the production of smaller fascicles, usually consisting of around 250 inscriptions. Dr Lambert and Dr Oliver are preparing separate volumes collecting the state decrees of the second half of the fourth century. These volumes will offer features that did not appear in the previous edition. Selected translations of inscriptions will be provided, commentaries on individual texts will be more extensive than those provided before and there will be greater attention to the archaeological context and visual record of the inscriptions. Photographs of the most important stones will be contained in the same volume as the text and commentary, and the important advances in the study of letter-cutters by Professor Stephen Tracy will be incorporated. Angelos Matthaiou will complete the publication of the decrees of the first half of the fourth century and Professor Osborne and Sean Byrne will work on those of the third century BC. Professor Follet is already preparing the Athenian decrees of the Roman period. There is a great deal of material to be assigned and it is expected that the international participation in the project will be extended even further.
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