In 2007, a very tall funerary stele with a palmette and two rosettes in relief was discovered near the cemetery of Schistos, within the confines of the modern municipality of Perama. The inscribed stele was published in the Archaiologikon Deltion of 2009 by Mrs. Petritaki, who did not put forward any prosopographical identifications. Upon restoring the demotic of the two deceased as [Α]ὐρίδης, I tentatively submit that the stele commemorated two members of an Athenian propertied family of the 4th cent. B.C. and that the first deceased, Archedemos son of Archippos of Auridai, should be identified as the trierarch Archedemos of IG II2 1609. Besides I suggest, very hesitantly, that the new stele can be used to place the tiny deme of Auridai, whose location has been hitherto unknown, in the area of Perama, across Salamis. My tentative identification tallies well with the extant scholarly consensus that Auridai belonged to the coastal trittys of the tribe Hippothontis and receives further corroboration from the etymological connection of the deme’s name with the noun αὔρα (sea breeze).
Festival Networks in Late Hellenistic Boeotia: from Kinship to Political Rejuvenation
January 2019
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La cité interconnectée : transferts et réseaux institutionnels, religieux et culturels aux époques hellénistique et impériale. Actes du colloque international organisé à ANHIMA, Paris, 24-25 juin 2016
THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REFOUNDATION OF THEBES: A NEW EPIGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
January 2019
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Annual of the British School at Athens
In the context of our ongoing work on the new corpus of Theban inscriptions (IG VII2, 4), we had the opportunity to study the famous inscription that records the contributions for the refoundation of Thebes after 315 BC. The inscription consists of two fragments, of which the first has been known since the 19th century, whereas the second was published very recently by Professor Buraselis. Following Buraselis’ publication, the two fragments were physically joined in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes, where the inscription is currently on display. Our article provides the first ever full epigraphic edition of both fragments after autopsy. It is accompanied by detailed epigraphic notes, new supplements, apparatus criticus and a full historical analysis. By combining the study of abundant literary and epigraphic sources, we have attempted to place the inscription in its historical context, correcting certain earlier scholarly assumptions, making new suggestions about the motivations of the numerous contributors, and examining the modalities of the refoundation of Thebes.
Pindaric reverberations: an unpublished inscription from the Museum of Thebes
January 2018
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Munus Laetitiae: Studi miscellanei offerti a Maria Letizia Lazzarini
Ἀπότμημα τιμητικοῦ ψηφίσματος ἀπὸ τὴ Βόρεια Κλιτὺ Ἀκροπόλεως
January 2017
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GRAMMATEION
In this article we offer the editio princeps of a fragment of a Hellenistic decree found out of context on the north slope of the Acropolis in 1999 (inv.no. 282). Amongst others, the unknown honorand must have helped Athenian diplomatic missions on several occasions (L. 7: πρεσβείαις ; L. 8: συναγωνιστὴς ἐκτενής ). Other noteworthy features include the term ἀρχεῖα (L. 4), probably magistrates, and a reference to an unidentifiable κοινὸν in L. 3. Our identification of the mason with S. Tracy’s “Cutter of IG II2 912” allows us to assign BK 282 a date between 226/5 and 190 B.C.
A New Fragmentary Inscribed Account from Athens
January 2015
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AΞΩΝ: Studies in Honor of Ronald S. Stroud
Introduction
June 2014
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The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia: New Finds, New Prospects
Boeotia, Epigraphy
Epigraphy in Early Modern Greece
May 2014
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Journal of the History of Collections
In this paper, I study the emergence and advancement of epigraphic studies in roughly the first forty years following the foundation of the modern Greek state. The main protagonists – most of whom remain unknown outside Greece – are introduced, and their epigraphic output in its multiple manifestations is examined: the recording and analysis of inscriptions, the publication of articles and monographs, and the creation and protection of epigraphic collections. My study is contextualized by examining contemporary issues of ethnic identity and state-institution formation, as well as questions of interface amongst the Greek intellectuals themselves on the one hand, and between them and their European counterparts on the other. Ultimately, however, an attempt is made to understand the form and content that early epigraphic studies acquired in the Greek-speaking world, and the extent to which Greek scholarship contributed to the emerging field of epigraphy as it materialized with the publication of the early epigraphic corpora.
Athens, Sigeion, and the Politics of Approbation during the Ionian War
January 2014
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ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ: Studies in Honour of Harold B. Mattingly
The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia: New Finds, New Prospects
The Making of the Archaeological Landscape of Boeotia in Early Modern Greece
Conference paper
In this essay I study the creation of the archaeological landscape of Boeotia in the first decades after the foundation of the modern Greek state. By the term landscape I refer not only to a real geographical space, but also to a problematized ideological field, which scholars, following the paradigm of Michel Foucault, have increasingly been calling heterotopia. Making use of the tripartite scheme put forward by Yannis Hamilakis, I investigate the degree of purification of the Boeotian landscape, the demarcation of archaeological sites and foundation of archaeological collections, and early, largely abortive, attempts at restoring ancient monuments. My study shows that Boeotia did not escape the attention of early scholars and the Greek state, even though its systematic investigation did not start before ca. 1870. Ultimately, I try to show how the Boeotian archaeological landscape was incorporated in the official national discourse of the new Greek kingdom.
In this article we present the editio princeps of a fragment of a Pentelic marble stele found in in 2011 in a pile of architectural members on the Acropolis (inv.no. Ακρ. 20460). The fragment seems to be the lower part of an inventory of various objects of metal, bronze and iron, most of which were in bad state of preservation at the time of their recording. On typological and epigraphical grounds, we have been able to identify Ακρ. 20460 as a new non-joining fragment of IG II2 120 + 1465, the famous stele of the Chalkotheke of 353/2 B.C.
