Chi arcl^aeologfcal Slnistitute of ^mtvica EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY VOL. Xrit, NO. 1 ATTIC BmLDEsra ACCOXmTS BY ■ A -KIT Tl T\T1kTmi«*/-\/-\T CN384 .dm'" ""'"""'•>' '■"■™n' *"iiiri{l™,'i!?/",? accounts. olin 3 1924 029 831 272 A.^'^ixi H- American .Scijool of Classical StuJies at atfjens ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS i [Plates II-IV] I. The Parthenon The Parthenon was begun during the political contest be- tween Pericles and Thucydides, the son of Melesias (Plutarch, Pericles, 12). The decree which authorized the construction, dating probably from soon after 450 B.C., has never been dis- covered, but numerous fragments, seventeen of which may now be accepted as correctly identified, have been from time to time attributed to the stele containing the actual expense accounts. It was Kohler who discovered the first clue ; to a series of seven fragments assembled by Kirchhoff (Monatsb. Berl. Akad. 1861, p. 860; I. Gr. I, 300-311), referring to a construction which was carried on through a period of at least fourteen years, begin- ning with 447/6,2 Kohler (^Ath. Mitt. 1879, pp. 33-35) united four others (one of them mistakenly),^ of which two mention marble for pediment sculptures. Kohler's identification is now almost universally accepted.* To his ten authentic fragments additions have been made by Foucart — three new pieces — including I.Cr. I, 300-302 a, 1 1 am greatly indebted to Dr. B. Leonardos, formerly curator of the Epi- graphical Museum at Athens, for the opportunity to study these accounts on the original stones, and to Dr. A. D. KeramopouUos, the present curator, for permission to publish the already known pieces and to add some new fragments of the accounts of the Propylaea. 2 The date of these fragments had previously given no hint, because it was then supposed that the I'arthenon was begun before 454/3, and to it were assigned the fragments I. (?. I, 284-288 (Kirchhoff, Mem. d. 1st. 1865, pp. 129- 142 ; Michaelis, Parthenon, pp. 287-288). 3 I.G. I, 111 ; 297 a and 6, suppl. p. -37 ; 311 a, suppl. p. 74. The first of these, I, 111, does not belong with the others ; the letters are too widely spaced. * Bannier alone in recent times speaks of this Inscription as unidentified {Bh. Mus. 1906, p. 220). American Journal of Archaeology, Second Series, Journal of the co Archaeological Institute of America, Vol. XVII (1918), No. 1. °" 54 WILLIAM B. DINSMOOB --^r^ _L. o (J Q Ul p" ''" <«■ r Q hJ < o IS L ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS I 55 suppl. p. 147, and two pieces wrongly assigned, /. Gr. I, 312-313, 331 (B.C.R. 1889, 174-178), making thirteen in all.i His results were followed by Michaelis (^Arx Athenarum,^ A.E. 10). Bannier — four new pieces — adding I. G. I, 220-221 {Bh. Mus. 1906, p. 223) and I. a. I, 327 (Ath. Mitt. 1902, p. 304), and two pieces wronglj"^ assigned, /. Gr. I, 330, and I. Q-. II, 4323, suppl. p. 293 {Rh. Mus. 1906, 221; 1908, 429, 434) .^ Cavaignae — two new pieces — adding Fig. 20 and Fig. 26 above, of his Mudes sur I'histoire finanoiire d'Aihines au V siicle (pp. 1, Ivi, Ix, Ixii, and pi. II.), to Foucart's eleven authentic pieces, and one of Bannier's (Z Gr. I, 327), rightly discarding Foucart's I. .e9 xo-v] NEAP AM MATE [fe]. This longer verb fills also the required space on G. There is no space for the ■)(crvv- on the reverse of F which may be identified as a fragment of the twelfth year (see below), and in the thirteenth year (Q as identified below), where the end of the name is preserved,^ the x'^vv- is certainly omitted. It would appear, therefore, 1 The unique last lines on the obverse of F, KAIHO • • • and P0I5I • •, will be discussed later (third year). 2 It was to avoid the mention of three different secretaries in the fifth year that these first two lines have always been wrongly restored. 3 Reiected by Cavaignac. * Accepted by Ferguson. 6 Woodward reads • • ]0§ EAP[aM]MATE["E] {I.e. p. 193), but it is a vertical hasta, as for . . ] E§, that appears on the stone. 62 WILLIAM B. DINSMOOB that Anticles attained the full secretaryship in the twelfth year. The annual prescripts may now be restored without difficulty ; the formulae are given below in tabular form : First Ten Yeaks Last Five Ybaks Ett^ t€s €S apx^^ (To?$) iircaTdTetn hec iypcLfi/jidTeve hots 'AvtikXcs (x(rt;i')e7pa/A/t(£Tei/e TEi ^oXet i-rl res (• • ■ es Kal) SeKdret ^oXes TrpoTos iypaiJifidTeve Aei Trporos iypa/iiidreve " iirl &PXOVTOS 'A0evaiot(r(_iv) (list of ca. 5 epistatae) iTnardTai Aots ('AcTiKXes) x^vv€ypa,p.pA,Tev€(^ ) TOi/Tois Xi/iiMTO. TO inavTO (toiJto) rdSe \4p,pAiTa to iviavTO (roiro) rdSe It is interesting to note that the change of the formulae coin- cides with the dedication of the chryselephantine statue and with the beginning of the Propylaea, and so perhaps marks an entire change in the administration of the Parthenon. The only fragment of the top of the obverse of the stele is D (Z Gr. I, 300), which appears in the seventh year of Cavaignac's scheme; here the first five lines contain larger letters than the rest, seemingly part of the first annual prescript, though the preserved letters are at the top of column II ; this indicates that, as in the Chandler Inscription of the Erechtheum (Z. Cr. I, 322) and, as we have good reason to believe, in the stele of the Propylaea, the first annual prescript extended across the entire width of the two double columns. The preserved letters are spaced 0.02 m. on centres; if the total width of the stele be taken as about 1.20 m., on the analogy of that of the Propy- laea (cf. p. xxx), we should have space for no more than fifty- eight letters in the longest line (1. 5) ; the first six lines may then be restored by following the analogy of the first prescript for the Propylaea, observing the stoichedon arrangement. L. 1 — [Ilap^evov] OS is offered merely as a suggestion, the official name of the temple at this period being uncertain. L. 3 — [Avt] I KU E§, Bockh {Staatsh.^ ±1, p. 305) ; this is rather the name of the first epistates ; there is here space for five epistatae, the usual number in the Parthenon, as in the accounts /. G. I, 289-296. It is interesting to note that in this inscription of the summer of 446 B.C. the n and S appear regularly, perhaps for the first w o DU > o > W W 'Z. 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EK" s < (3 OQ ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS I, 69 ^16). 1 The connection of H and G to form the prescript has already been discussed, and confirms the location of these frag- ments in the ninth year.^ The ninth annual account was com- posed therefore of H (1.0-. I, 306), G (I, 305), and B (I, 297 a). L. 38 — [Em TEs apx^s A"]> Kirchhoff. L. 38 — [Aioj/w(rt]IL,0§, rests only on the amount of space to be filled; ['Apto-rdj^lUOS restored here by Cavaigaac. L. 39 — rPO[Tos] hitherto restored, but B exists as the fourth letter. L. 40 — EAP[ajn/xaTeue], the usual restoration, is impossible after "the same word at the end of the preceding line ; it must be some proper name. L. 41 — X5Y[Tr£Taov], Cavaignac; this does not seem the proper place for a demotic. L. 42 — [ — (^i\o9 eyp], Kirchhoff; ['Apio-Toc^tXos eyp], Cavaignac. L. 48 — [Mvppt]NOSIO[s], Kirchhoff, as discussed above. L. 49 — [dp-yupto irpoidevTo]^, restored because the number of letter spaces fits, and because the weight is omitted, as it should be in the <3ase of unwrought silver. L. 50 — [irpa&€VT']OHP , Cavaignac; perhaps [o-Tafl/*] ON P might be better. L. 61 ■ — / [^pva-io] ; Cavaignac saw here a trace rather of E. L. 53 — XSYL,ON[7rpa^eVTo]l, Bannier; this was evidently surplus -wood left from building the ceiling and roof in the two preceding years. L. 54 — EYEP[o], probably the father of Ilpcms (Aristophanes, Acharn. 843; I.G. I, 225 Ic, suppl. p. 174; Ath. Mitt. 1894, p. 163). L. 55 — SAYPONC [s], who contributed also to the Propylaea in 437/6 B.C. L. 59 — n ENTE[\€^ev koI k.t.X.], Kirchhoff; the xot I omit because ■of lack of space. L. 61 — [AoSoTTot] 1 S, Woodward (I.e. p. 191, n. 3), who, like Liddell 1 For the two last see the discussions of the Propylaea accounts of the corre- sponding years. 2 Bannier {Rh. Mus. 1908, p. 429 n. 2) had proposed that G and B be placed below C, which conflicts, however, with my junction of C and F. Cavaignac (I.e. p. lix) rightly dated G and B in the ninth year by elimination, but rather ■accidentally, since he supposed that the secretary's demotic in the twelfth year was 4k TO (/. Gr. I, 244 ; really Alxcoi/eis, cf. the Propylaea stele, col. I, 1. 63), and that the thirteenth year was on a narrow edge. Woodward would ■assign B to either the tenth or the thirteenth year. 70 WILLIAM B. DIJSrSMOOR and Scott, cites Xenophon, Cyr. VI, 2, 36 and Aeschines, 57, 27 ; a better analogy is the speech of Pericles (Plutarch, Pericles,. 12), mentioning the employment of oSon-oioi on this very building ; cf. I.O. II, 834 c, 28, also Francotte, L'industrie dans la Or&ce ancienne (II, p. 86), and Ferguson (Trans. Am. Phil. Assoc. 1904, p. 17). L. 62 — [eiri TO. kvkXo], Woodward (I.e. 191-192) ; previous restorar tions were iwl t6s ovos (I.G. I, 297 6) or em Ta hvrro^vyta (I, 297 a). L. 63 — [tos heKovras ^]ENTE^ L[6£v] in previous readings. L. 65 — restored by Woodward (I.e. p. 192). The selling of gold and silver, to which ivory was added at least as early as 437/6 B.C., began in this ninth year (439/8) and continued until the close of the work. These material's were sold in such large quantities (cf. the fourteenth year) that they cannot have come merely from the pedestal of the chrysele- phantine statue; the epistatae of the Athena Parthenos must have turned over to the treasury of the Parthenon the surplus material remaining after the completion of the statue. We may be certain, therefore, of the correctness of the generally received view, which makes the date given by the chronogra- phers (Eusebius Armen. 440/39 B.C., Hieronymus 439/8, Philo- chorus 438/7) that of the completion of the statue, and not of its inception, as Pareti would prefer (^Hom. Mitt. 1909, p. 271 f .). The evidence seems to show merely that the actual work at least was finished in 439, though the dedication may have been postponed to the Panathenaic festival of 438 B.c.i In this same 1 In the dilapidated condition of the Geneva Papyrus (Nicole, Le proces de Phidias), little reliance can be placed on Nicole's and Pareti's rival readings of what are supposed to be archons' names, MoMwx'Sou = ['A]i't[i]oxWou, and [Eifiu] (/ii)^i/ous = ['A]i^e[i)]Sous. Prom these Nicole attempts to show that the statue was not quite finished even in 438/7. Pareti is even more revolutionary and would place all the work on the statue between 439 and 434, but his evi- dence (I.e. p. 278) is really adverse to his theory ; the sale of wood in the ninth year is hardly the surplus left from the frame of the statue, which would have been a petty amount, but rather that left from the ceiling and roof constructed in the seventh and eighth years ; the sale of surplus gold and ivory does not begin in 434/3, for gold was first sold in the ninth year (439/8), ivory perhaps in the tenth and certainly in the eleventh (437/6), when according to Pareti's view the epistatae should really have bought gold and ivory. The actual expense accounts of the statue (I.G. I, 298 and suppl. p. 146, I, 299, 299 a, and 556), which might be expected to settle the matter, unfortunately cannot be dated ; they are probably of the years between 443/2 and 439/8 b.o. 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Q. -< t- l- b ** > a ;^ ^ " t- o d •* ^ 1 ^- d V Q. a. - < (■ , o 4 -< Ul HS (■ -< ■< , a i« b X X o w 1= X X X ■< rfS w '< d s< i >< >< 9k ^ t- J 8 til 1 — 1 1 — 1 (LI 1 — 1 1 — 1 1 I l-_i 1 1 1 1 lZj 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 — I I — 1 1 — 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 — 1 lIj 1 1 1 — 1 I — 1 1 1 << o 1 1 1 1 1 1 L_J 1 1 U— 1 1 — 1 1 — 1 1 1 1 1 U— 1 1 — 1 ' ' < y ;^ d 1 — 1 5 CQ >-" O o b w a. 1 — r UJ a 1 — I Ul H b w 9k o 1 — 1 Ul 1 1 — I UJ Ul u o o o X. a. o u < CO P4 ;^ Ul t- d ! d g t- ;>. b o Ul X l- w a UJ UJ b u o < b w w (- X tl w b 'i o X X u l- eo u. o •O - E. \ — 1 1 — 1 1 — 1 r — 1 2 w w s d Of 1 — 1 E. <»• a. <, E. <*« E. i- w o o z Wi h w i <• t/> m; "* <• <• OSTATE P E 0-] A K E NO 1 t -^ 4 p§ § Cx p V (T oJ<- T A T E P E t H E KTE K [v t ' K e V o] ' P A P A [t a ;m tj N [7i o 6 T a] M M p: T E § O E 0[e r] A M 1 E Y[o .] H 1 t KPATE5EA P[a] M MAT EYEUAMPT P [. V .J X H H H X P Y § 1 OP P A O E[v T s] D AA hh § TAG M0N[3 AAA [A P H h hj T 1 M E T Y T X H H H T t E * A N T t[n p a]0[€ v] n 1 1 1 1 T § 5 A:T 1 T A O M [v] T T M E T [o w r o] (?) f' I N A U C 1 M A T A -- H -- -L H h 1 N E M A T -" [v] 30 - - MI§O0/^[aTOv] X, [7i]YP0P[yot sHevreXej ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS I 75 H H Z [A] [a- I K a I \ I 6 OS u. V ari^] Prll L[o-teirira KVKXaJ 35 M p3 X H H ^A" A[aA/xaTO 7ro]IO IS HpAAA ENACtc-rto../. 0^005 A I- h [X] [H H H H K A T A IV [e V I o] I S (?) [tt € p]l E[y e v] E T 40 [t o e V I tt V t] '^ T V [t o] D? ^ ^] [XP iiTOirru Tip e s] LA a fji (t a k € V o ij C^ '^ P § §] [XP vo-ocrra T € p e s] [H E K T E] [K V ^ t K £ 1/ u i] L. 17 — the treasurers of Athena, having devoted their attention exclusively to the statue of Athena between 443/2 and 439/8 b.c, and to the Propylaea in 437/6 to 436/4, now return to the Parthenon. L. 22 — pAAA (?), Kirchhoff; I complete the weight to fit the ratio 14 : 1, as described below. L. 25 — the weight of the ivory was more than 2 talents 60 dr., but less than 4 talents 5960 dr. ; the value, in proportion to silver or gold, was at most less than half of the quotations for the best ivory in recent times, though this is offset by the modern decrease in the actual value of gold and silver. LI. 35-36 — the formula was suggested by Woodward {I.e. p. 192, n. 4) in connection with I. O. I, 307, and is now confirmed by the junction to I.G. I, 221, which adds the interesting fact that in 434/3, the sixth year of work on the pediments, the sculptors were paid 16,392 dr. L. 38 — no word indicating the class of people who received this payment, such as the use of the dative case would require, can fit this space ; the only possible word is KaraaeviOK, which should prop- erly be in the genitive case ; this is the usual place, just after the payment to the sculptors, for the entry Karap-evlov. These are the monthly salaries of the architect, the epistatae, and their secretary ; the amount, 1800 dr., is correct for six persons paid 30 dr. a month, i.e.. the architect, the secretary, and four epistatae (whose number varied, however, from three to five). L. 39 — the amount of the surplus is unknown; the receipts amounted to 29,147 dr. 4 ob., of which at least 20,620 dr. 3 ob. were expended. 76 WILLIAM B. BINSMOOn Herodotus (III, 95) says the ratio of values of equal weights of gold and silver was as 13:1; but from the slight traces on our inscription Kirchhoff conjectured that the ratio rose to rather more than 14 : 1 (Mbnatsb. Berl. Akad. 1861, 860 f.). On a fragment of the accounts for the chryselephantine statue (Z Gr. I, 298 suppl. p. 146) one may read, according to the usual in- terpretation, that 6 talents, 1528 (or -9) or 1618 (or -9). drachmae, and 5 obols weight of gold cost 87 talents 4652 dr. of silver. It seems better to read the lllll with the marginal entry, as 87 talents 4652 dr. 5 ob., a fourteenth of which would be 6 talents 1618 dr. -i- ob. (PTXIR[H]APhH-[C]), exactly fitting the indications on the stone and giving the ratio as exactly 14 : 1. By the end of 433/2 B.C. the work had been completely finished.^ As appears from the junction of F (J. G-. I, 301 a) to C, the account of this fifteenth year was inscribed, not on the narrow edge below the fourteenth year, as has been sup- posed, but on the opposite narrow edge, so that all four faces of the stele were used. The position of the account is remark- able; instead of beginning at the top of the stele, as on the three other faces, it begins 0.57 m. below the top. [tJOISEP I5TATE § I H [O^ANTI KL.E5EA PAM MATEYE:Eni TE5rEM[,r] ~E5KAIAEKATE5B0l 5 E5HEIKPITIAAE5n PO TOSEA PAMMATEYE EP IA*§EYA0§APX0 h [r]0§AGENAIOI5:L.EMN [..rjATOENIAYTOTAAE 10 [TrejPIAENOMENO [/x,jLiey]-KTOnPOT [ep oev I a u to] The dimensions of the stele can be calculated with a fair degree of accuracy. The thickness, as already noted, was uni- 1 Michaelis attempted to assign to 432/1 e.g., the fragment of the third year /. G. I, 302 a. ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS I 77 formly 0.198 m., except at the very bottom, where it was increased to 0.21 m. by a werkzoll (as on the Propylaea stele) covering the reverse to a height of 0.20 m.^ As for the width, we may estimate from J that the money column was at least 0.21 m. wide, the item column at, least 0.31 m., both together amounting to a width of more than 0.52 m. The length of the prescript of the eleventh year (0 + P), i-e. the combined widths of the money and item columns, was 0.58 m.^ The- total width of the two double columns would be somewhat more than twice this amount, or about 1.20 m., a result similar to that which we shall obtain for the Propylaea stele. The height can be estimated only by the spacing of the lines. On the obverse, the first twenty-nine lines occupy a space of 0.51 m.,. after which the lines are spaced regularly 0.0165 m. In the first column we require one hundred and sixteen lines, measur- ing 0.51 m. (11. l-29)-f-1.43 m. (11. 30-116) = 1.94 m.; the last line is 0.088 m. above the bottom of the stele, which would have been therefore about 2.04 m. high. Each broad face con- tained two double columns, each narrow edge one. In column I, including the first annual prescript which extended entirely across the stele, were one hundred and sixteen lines, ending 0.088 m. above the bottom ; in column II, one hundred and nine lines ending 0.195 m. above the bottom; on the reverse,, the werkzoll covered about 0.20 m. at the bottom, and the inscriptions ended about 0.16 m. higher; on the right edge, the fourteenth year's account began at the top and covered forty-four lines ; and on the left edge the fifteenth year's account began 0.57 m. below the top, and was of unknown length. In conclusion, the historical facts gleaned from this inscrip- tion may be summarized, with the assistance of other chrono- logical sources, somewhat as follows : Year I, 447/6 B.C.; Timarchides archon, of Aphidna undersecretary of the epistatae, Diodorus of Paeonidae secre- 1 This appears on Mi but is badly footworn, having evidently formed the- surface of a mediaeval pavement. 2 The letters are spaced 1^ cm. on centres ; the first letter of P is 0.36 m. from the right edge of the stele, and sixteen more spacings are needed to com- plete the restoration. 78 WILLIAM B. DINSMOOR tary of the Hellenotamiae. The Parthenon begun with Ictinus and Callicrates as architects. Yearll, 446/5 B.C.; Callimachus archon. Work temporarily suspended on account of the campaign in Euboea. Year III, 445/4 B.C. ; Lysimachides archon, Eu secre- tary of the Hellenotamiae. Work on the Parthenon resumed. Year IV, 444/3 B.C. ; Praxiteles archon, Strombichus of ChoUeidae secretary of the Hellenotamiae. The earliest extant notice of the contribution of the airapxe (yi^^ri. 42,675 dr. 5 ob.); Pericles falsely accused of the misuse of the Delian funds, by Thucydides ; the charge dismissed and Thucydides ostracized. The new fleet of triremes finished and the surplus money (90,000 dr.) turned over to the Parthenon. Wood is purchased, probably for scaffolding. Year V, 443/2 B.C. ; Lysanias archon, Timotheus annual secretary of the epistatae, Anticles appointed permanent under- secretary ; Sophiades of Eleusis secretary of the Hellenotamiae. The middle long wall finished by Callicrates, and the surplus funds devoted to the Parthenon. The treasurers of Athena cease to contribute to the Parthenon, apparently because their money was needed to begin the chryselephantine statue. Year VI, 442/1 B.C. ; Diphilus archon, Anticles undersecre- tary of the epistatae, Chalcideus of Melite secretary of the Hellenotamiae. Year VII, 441/0 B.C. ; Timocles archon, Anticles under- secretary of the epistatae. The columns channeled, and work begun on the ceilings and roof. Year VIII, 440/39 B.C. ; Morychides archon, Anticles under- secretary of the epistatae, Sosistratus of Hybadae secretary of the Hellenotamiae. Work on the ceilings and roof completed ; ivory bought, and gold and silver workers paid, for decorating the pedestal of the chryselephantine statue ; marble brought to the ateliers, probably to be in readiness for beginning the pedi- ment sculptures. Year IX, 439/8 B.C. ; Glaucinus archon, Dionysiphilus (?) of Probalinthus secretary of the epistatae, Anticles under- secretary, of Rhamnus (or Hagnus) secretary of the Hellenotamiae. Contributions from private individuals, hitherto given for the chryselephantine statue, now given to ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS I 79 the Parthenon. The statue completed by Phidias; its sur- plus material turned over to the Parthenon by the epistatae of the statue, and the gold and silver begin to be sold, perhaps to assist in paying for the carving of the pediment sculptures (which were probably likewise the work of Phidias and of his assistants). The Parthenon virtually completed, and surplus wood from the scaffoldings and roof is sold. The pediment sculptures begun and no other work done in this year. Year X, 438/7 B.C. ; Theodorus archon, Anticles under- secretary, of the epistatae, of Acharnae secretary of the Hellenotamiae. The doors of the naos set in place, completing the work on the temple ; the statue of Athena Parthenos dedi- cated at the Panathenaic festival. Year XI, 437/6 B.C. ; Euthymenes archon, Peithiades first secretary of the senate ; Anticles acting secretary of the epis- tatae, cus of the Ceramicus secretary of the Hellenotamiae. The Propylaea begun, whereupon the Hellenotamiae cease to contribute to the Parthenon, and the treasurers of Athena, instead of resuming their contributions for the construction of the Parthenon (now that the statue has been completed), like- wise divert their funds to the Propylaea. Surplus ivory and tin sold, and work henceforth confined to the pediment sculptures. Year XII, 436/5 B.C. ; Lysimachus archon, Anticles ap- pointed permanent secretary of the epistatae, Philetaerus (or Philemonides) of Aexone secretary of the Hellenotamiae. Year XIII, 435/4 b.c. ; Antiochides archon, as first secretary of the senate, Anticles secretary of the epistatae, Thoinilus (of Acharnae) of the Hellenotamiae. Year XIV, 434/3 B.C.; Crates archon, Metagenes first sec- retary of the senate, Anticles secretary of the epistatae. Crates (of Lamptrae) of the treasurers of Athena, Protonicus (of the Ceramicus) of the Hellenotamiae. As the Propylaea approach completion, the treasurers of Athena give part of their funds to the Parthenon sculptures. Of the total receipts 29,147 dr. 4 ob. in this year, 16,392 dr. given as wages to the sculptors, and 1800 dr. as salaries to the epistatae and their secretary. Year XV, 433/2 B.C.; Apseudes archon, Critiades first secre- tary of the senate, Anticles secretary of the epistatae, Euthias 80 WILLIAM B. DINSMOOB (of Anaphlystus) of the treasurers of Athena. The Parthenon: sculptures completed and the accounts closed ; Phidias accused of embezzlement and impiety, imprisoned, and later executed ; the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War at the same time terminates work on the Propylaea and the Erechtheum. William B. Dinsmooe. Amekican School of Classical Stddies, Athens. COEREOTION In the last line of the note on page 542 of the last volume of this Journal (XVI, 1912, p. 542), for 30.95 m. read 26.40 m. 80 WILLIAM B. DINSMOOB (of Anaphlystus) of the treasurers of Athena. The Parthenon: sculptures completed and the accounts closed ; Phidias accused of embezzlement and impiety, imprisoned, and later executed ; the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War at the same time terminates work on the Propylaea and the Erechtheum. William B. Dinsmoor. American School of Classical Stddies, Athens. CORRECTIONS TO PP. 53-80. A new examination of the accounts of the Parthenon necessitates one change in the order of the fragments; the letters on the broad face of H are too large for the reverse, bfit are identical with those on the obverse; I was misled by the present mutilation of the fragment. The following corrections are chiefly the results of this change. Transfer the beginnings of 11. 38 41 of Plate III to 11. 68-71. of Plate II, reading tEtdQxei; in 1. 68, EAP[an(4,dteue] and XSYf^tsxaov] in 11. 70-71. Figure 1 (p. 54): transpose H, and read «VII» instead of «VIII» (col.ll). P. 57, 11. 10-12: read .six (A, E, H, I, J, and M) and seven (B, C, K» 1. 9 from bottom: read «four' instead of «five» 1. 6 from bottom: omit «and H» 1. 3 from bottom : read «groups, one of the three and one of four* P. 59, 11. 9-10 from bottom; read «H (obveroe)* P. 60, n. 3: omit .G+H and« P. 61, last line: read «N» instead of «/v» P. 64, 1. 2: insert «To these must be added H (L G. I, 306); it contains the beginnings of a prescript, with letters characteristic of the obverse, and belonging to the left edge of the obverse; other fragments preserve the prescripts of years III and V, leaving IV for H.» 1. 4: insert .L. 69 — ppo[iocI etc.» as on p. 69, II. 9 10. P. b7, last line: omit «as determined — — ninth year.» P. 68: omit II. 13 16 from bottom. P. 69, 11. 1-3: omit ^The connection ninth year.» I. 4: omit -H (L O. I, 306). II. 9-15: omit comment on 11. 39-41. P. 71, n. 1: read -It actually lasted seven years, however. » P. 74, 1. 3: omit «and H (1, 307)« and «side by side» P. 75, 11. 3 8 (35-40): end the lines with minuscule letters, 1. 38 as [eviov] 11. 1617 from bottom: omit «the formula fact that» 1. 9-12 from bottom: omit "no word — — genitive case* P. 76, 1. 21: insert «The location of the obverse of H (col. I, 11. 68-71) is such as to bring the piece of narrow edge in 11. 35-40 of year XV.» 1. 2 from bottom: insert, as 11. 35-40, the ends of 11. 35-40 printed on p. 76, 1. 38 reading [hi):toQYo]lS P. 77, 1. 7 from bottom: read «and was likewise forty four lines long.» P. 78, 1. 5: insert « — of Halae secretary of the epistatae,» 1. 7: insert « — of Probalinthus secretary of the epistatae,» 1. 4 from bottom: omit «of Probalinthus». arcl^aeological 9!n0t(tttte of America EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF ARCSAE.OILOOY roL. xrii, NO. 2 AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS ATTIC BUILDING ACCOimTS 11. THE ERECHTHEUM BY WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOR American Srijool of Classical StuUics at atijcns ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS II. The Eeechtheum^ Op the records of the first period of the construction of the Erechtheum, including, as we may imagine, a decree of about 435 B.C. authorizing the erection of the building, and a stele with the expense accounts down to the outbreak of the Pelo- ponnesian War in 432, not a fragment has been identified. Of the later series, however, beginning with (A) a fragment of the decree of Epigenes in one of the last prytanies of 410/9 (/. G-. I, 60, and suppl. p. 18), which provides for a commission to examine the state of the unfinished building, we have a fairly complete array. To the stele containing the report of this commission, and dating from the first prytany of 409/8 B.C., I assign five fragments. B. The upper portion of a marble stele (J. 6r. I, 322), found on the Acropolis by Chandler in 1765, and because of its con- tents immediately identified as referring to the Erechtheum, was taken to England for the Society of Dilettanti and by them presented to the British Museum. Early writers all supposed that the stele was complete; it remained for Boeckh {C.I.Cr. 1 60) to note from the context that more lines were needed, and that therefore the lower end of the stone must be missing. C. A fragment of the left edge of a stele (J. Gr. I, 322 S), found on the Acropolis in 1838 and now in the Museum at Athens, was identified by Pittakis ('E^. 'Apx- 1839, no. 215), Rangabe (Ant. hell. I, p. 86), and Stephani QAnnali, 1843, p. 286), as forming part of the missing continuation of the first column of the stele. 1 1 repeat my acknowledgments to Dr. KeramopouUos, of the Epigraphical Museum ; and to Dr. Caskey, whose studies of the Erechtheum inscriptions have made me more intimately acquainted with the fragments and their contents, I am under many ohligations. American Journal of Archaeology, Second Series. Journal of the 949 Archaeological Institute of America, Vol, XVII (1918), No. 2. ^^ ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS II 243 D. A fragment of the right edge ofj a stele (J. Gf-. I, 322, suppl. p. 152), bought by the Greek Archaeological Society and said to have been found in Athens (before 1889), was suggested by Kirchhoff as part of the second column of our Erechtheum stele, but this suggestion has not always been received with favor by recent writers. The contents, style of writing and size of letters, and the distance of the left side of the column (as restored) from the preserved right edge of the stone, are exactly the same as in the Chandler stone. The fact that B, C, and D all belong to one and the same stele seems to me beyond doubt. But there is one strong objection. The Chandler stone (B) is 0.09 m. thick and roughly tooled on the back, without tapering; C is a mere sliver 0.05 m. thick, and so does not enter into the question ; but D, even though broken at the back, is at least 0.135 m. thick, far thicker than the Chandler stone. Either therefore B and D do not belong together, or the back of B is modern. Now what do we learn from Chandler's own account ? In his Travels in Greece (1776, pp. 57-58 = 1821, pp. 71-72), we read as follows : " Another marble, which has been engraved at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti,^ was discovered at a house not far from the temple of Minerva Polias, placed, with the inscribed face exposed, in the stairs. The owner, who was branded for some unfair dealing with the appellative -Jefiit' or ' the Jew,' prefixed to his name, seeing me bestow so much labour in taking a copy, became fearful of parting with the original under its value. When the bargain was at length concluded, we obtained the connivance of the disdar, his brother, under an injunction of privacy, as otherwise the removal of the stone might endanger his head, it being the property of the grand signior. Mustapha delivered a ring, which he commonly wore, to be shewn to a black female slave, who was left in the house alone, as a token ; and our Swiss, with assistants and two horses, one reputed to be the strongest in Athens, arrived at the hour appointed, and brought down the two marbles,^ for which he was sent, unobserved ; the Turks being at their devo- 1 The engraving is published by Chandler, Inscr. gr. 1774, II, I ; Wilkins, in Walpole, Memoirs, p. 580 ; Kose, Inscr. gr. pi. XXII. 2 One was a fragment of a treasure list. 244 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOB tions in the mosque, except the guard at the gate, who was in the secret. The large slab was afterwards rendered more portable by a mason." ^ When we remember that another slab of the Erechtheum accounts (J. Gr. I, 321) has on its back an inscrip- tion (^A.J.A. 1906, pi. Ill) which was not discovered until forty years after the inscription on the front had been published, we may well hesitate to imagine what may have been on the back of the Chandler stone, buried under the crust of lime mortar which probably covered it at the time of the extraction from the stair of the house of Jefiit Mustapha. Yet it is to the problem of what was lost by the mason's endeavor to render the stone " more portable " that we must now turn. E. A fragment of the right edge of a stele (/. G. I, 282), found on the Acropolis in 1839 and now in the Museum at Athens, was first recognized bj"- Rangabe (^Ant. hell. I, no. 88) and Jahn (^Arx Athenarum\ 1880, no. 16), as part of the speci- fications for work to be done on a wooden ceiling of the Erechtheum. The stone is broken away 0.025 m. below the last line, leaving, however, a vacant space which is enough to show that this was the bottom of a column of text. For various reasons, now unnecessary to relate, it appeared to me probable that this was to be associated with the three other pieces ; the matter was finally settled by the discovery that the fracture at the back exactly fits the broken ba^ck of C- The two pieces thus placed together give the original thickness of the stele as 0.139 m., sufficient to include D and show that on the back of the report were inscribed the specifications for new work, most of which were chipped off by the mason and are now hopelessly lost. F. A fragment of a lower corner of an opisthographic stele (unpublished), now in the Museum at Athens, was there recognized as forming part of the inscription to which E belonged, i.e. the specifications. ^ The other face has, however, a few letters from the last two lines of an inscription exactly like that on the Chandler stone — N I A K / OSTPinOAE (vacat) 1 The italics are mine. 2 It is now marked " Eis I, 282," and will be published by Mr. L. D. Caskey. ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS II 245 and the thickness 0.139 m. is the same as that reached by fitting C and E together. The broken surface at the bottom of D, moreover, exactly fits the top of F, and enables us to terminate the Chandler inscription thus : [II 'EXei, n-t]NIAKO,iJ;; KOSHEKPOAE [irXaT]0§TPinOAE Our five pieces of the stele now form three groups, B (itself broken into two pieces), C + E, and D + F, which cannot be joined together. We may, how '"■•'' * «^'?»V'-"''*^^'^^^*"*. '; .*'''.**•*' ever, form an idea of the gen- eral contents of the stele and of the gaps that separate the fragments (Fig. 1). , The report proper on the obverse, below the prescript which extended across the en- tire width (11. 1-7), falls into two general divisions, an in- ventory of the building and an inventory of what lay on the ground about the building. The first division is subdivided into two sections, containing a list of the blocks missing from the building (col. I, 11. 8-43),i and a list of those already placed but unfinished (11. 44- 92). The second division is subdivided into three sections, containing lists of stones then on the ground (;)^a/u.at) ; first are those completely worked (vrai'TeXo? i)(^crep(70i and nothing of the other, while I seemed to see [.] ' [. . .]S and [• • • ■]*-'[•] respectively, as if we should read irXiros for the three sides of the east portico, and so for all five cases in which antithemata are mentioned. ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS 11 253 south, east, and north sides. The number of Pentelic antithe- mata is probably not 1 1 1 1 (pp. 322, 326) but P I (cf . G, 11. 7-12, 24—26, 32-35); for as Mr. Caskey notes elsewhere (pp. 326, 327, 331) the antithemata on the east fagade seem to have been of Pentelic marble, though this fact is not expressly stated in 11. 24—26. Of the number of Aeginetan antithemata there seem to be more traces than Mr. Caskey shows, and the number seems to have been larger than the four outer walls of the temple would have allowed ; perhaps some of these blocks ■were on the cross wall, since 21 lines (15 in the gap between G and H, 6 on H) are more than we need for the west wall alone. 1, col. I, 1. 23, might be read: [P : — ; /jbiKO'S lleirTawov, 7rXaTo[§ TPI P ON As Mr. Hill and Mr. Caskey point out, the southwest geison was unique with the longer face, given as 1^ feet, toward the south flank (I.e. pp. 335, 337); the normal angle geisa are given as 6 feet long, their greater lengths towards the fagade (I.e. pp. 335, 336). 1 On the analogy of the southwest geison Mr. Caskey likewise revolves that at the northwest corner 1 The foot used in the Erechtheum and the Propylaea seems to have been 0.32725 m. long, the tetrapody, in the blocks furnished by the contractors, being then 1.309 m. But the blocks were trimmed for their places to an average length of 1.2985 m., so that the surveyors measuring the blocks in situ should, to be accurate, have used a unit of 0.3246 m. The total length of the south geisa was 70J of these feet, as if it were composed of Z\ feet of the east angle geison, six- teen regular four-foot geisa, and 3^ feet of the vrest angle geison. The returns of the normal angle geisa were Z\ feet, not Z\ feet as the inscriptions generally give them (though 1. 27 correctly gives 3} feet) ; the variation is due to the fact that the dimension needed to be merely approximate in the inscriptions as a means of identification. The regular geisa average exactly four feet of 0.3246 m. in length, the approximate designation by the surveyors here coinciding with a stock size, the tetrapody furnished by the contractors. The unique block 7J feet long was more probably 7J feet long, its end coinciding with the normal location of a joint and not quite reaching to the pilaster of the metopon, so that it would have required a thick frieze below it, with the sofiit exposed in the niche, as along the west side of the southwest wing of the Propylaea. If the longer face of this angle geison had been toward the west, it would have needed to be at least 9 feet long, since here a thick frieze below it would have been impossible. And if, with the longer face toward the south, it had been intended to disregard the jointing system and obtain a bearin;; on the pilaster of the met- opon, this bearing would surely have been made greater than the almost useless amount of 5 cm. obtained even with a length of 7J feet. 254 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOR (which was, however, of normal size) so as to bring its longer dimension toward the flank of the building. But it seems diffi- cult to imagine that, when at the southwest corner the abnor- mal conditions (the niche and the Kekropion) were not allowed to affect the jointing system of the geisa, these same conditions should have entirely disarranged the northwest corner, where there was no reason for any change.^ The sole reason for re- volving the northwest geison seems to be, to give the special intermediate geison (1. 23) a length in even feet without a fraction, that it may be fitted to the lacuna in the inscription (I.e. p. 338). If we follow the approximate measurements of the inscription less literallj'', we may subtract from the total length of the west geison, actually 86^ instead of 36 feet, the lengths of the northwest (6^ instead of 6 feet) and southwest (approximately 3| feet) angle geisa, leaving an intermediate space of approximately 26f feet. The length of the special block must have been 2|^ or 6| feet, or rather to fit the lacuna in the inscription, rphrov or hetrrdTrov; the latter must be pre- ferred in order to obtain a bearing above the southernmost column (cf. I.e. p. 338). As the short returns of the other angle geisa, given as 3|^ feet, must be reduced to 3^ feet, so for the southwest geison we are probably to interpret 3|^ feet as 3| feet. On the west, as on the south, the jointing system was not disturbed by the abnormal conditions at the southwest corner; the difficulties were overcome by inserting a joint in one case, by suppressing a joint in the other. The total number of four-foot geisa on the west must have been five, not six; but, as Mr. Caskey points out (I.e. p. 338), the angle geisa were not laid in this prytany,^ and the same may have been true of others, thus reducing the number at the beginning of the line to even less than H. I, col. II, 11. 8-42, show that the jointing of the blocks of the west tympanum was unlike that in the east pediment. The variations in height and length are explained by Mr. Caskey as the simple result of an attempt to break joints with the pecu- liarly arranged west geisa, though the variation in thickness 1 With the length of 6 (or rather 6^) feet toward the north, the next geison on the north must have been 5^"^ instead of 4 feet long. 2 But at least one angle geison must have been laid in a preceding prytany, so that the restoration iKiroiii^- ■ '---i','''/ at mm ' ^(xjy 11 iSii ) ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS III. The Pkopylaba Of all the buildings on the Acropolis, the Propylaea alone are exactly dated by literary accounts. " Philochorus (in his fourth book) and others record that the Athenians began to build them in the archonship of Euthymenes (437/6 B.C.), with Mnesicles as architect ; and Heliodorus in his first book about the Acropolis at Athens says, among other things, the following : ' In five years they were entirely , finished ; two thousand and twelve talents were expended; and five were the gates they made, through which they entered the Acropolis.' " ^ It was without difficulty, therefore, that a fragment of marble found near the east portico of the Propylaea in 1830, inscribed with (n/3o)rYLAIOEPAAS[ia9] and [^7r'Eu]OYMEN0§APX0[z^- To^^ on one side and ['Etti re? t6t] APTESAPXE5, with Metage- nes as first secretary of the senate (cf. I.G. I, 301, of 434/3) and Crates of Lamptrae as secretary of the treasurers of Athena (cf. I. G-. I, 141, 142) on the other side, was recognized by Rangabe as part of . the building accounts of the Propylaea (Ant. hell. I, 1842, pp. 88-91, No. 89). This fragment (I.G. I, 314 J-315 b) is necessarily the starting point for any consid- eration of the building inscription. The next advance was made by Kirchhoff, who united the Rangabe fragment to another (I. G. I, 314 a-315 a) which had been likewise published by Rangabe (I.e. pp. 233, 394, No. 128) but had not been identified (Jh. Phil. Pad. 1861, pp. 47 ff.). Subsequently Kirchhoff suggested other candidates for the stele of the Propylaea, such as I. G. I, 312-313, 315 a-c (suppl. p. 38), and 554 (cf. p. 222). Unfortunately these last were not generally accepted ; Kohler had already proposed to assign 1 Harpocration, s.v. Upoiri'Saia Tavra ; Photius and Suidas, s.v. RpoTiXaia Toura ; Plutarch, Pericles, 13. 371 372 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOB I. Gr. I, 312-313 to that series which he later identified as be- longing to the Parthenon (J. Gr. I, p. 161), and in this he was followed by Foucart (B. C.H. 1889, p. 176, n.) and Michaelis (^A.E. 10). 1 Michaelis tentatively admitted I. Gr. I, 315 a-o and 554 {A.JE. 5), but Bannier (Ath. Mitt. 1902, p. 303, n., Eh. Mus. 1908, p. 429) and Cavaignac {Etudes, p. Ixxi) rejected I. G-. I, 815 a-c, as well as 312-313, and admitted only I. Gr. I, 554 of Kirchhoff's three suggestions. Thte net results of Kirch- hoff's work seemed to be, therefore, the addition of I. Gr. I, 314 a-315 a, and 554, to the Rangabe fragment. Eduard Meyer (Forschungen, II, pp. 99, 101, n.) rather casu- ally speaks of another fragment as belonging to the Propylaea, I. Gr. I, 316. This was confirmed by Bannier, who identified one more fragment, I. Gr. I, 331 d, suppl. p. 77, and found that, according to the lettering at least, it must have joined I. Gr. I, 316 accurately {Ath. Mitt. 1902, pp. 302-303) ; I.a.I, 316 itself is lost. Cavaignac's list of fragments of the inscriptions of the Propylaea is the same as Bannier's, viz. I. Gr. I, 314 5-315 b, 314 a-315 a, 316, 331 ci, and 554 {Etudes, p. Ixxi). This was the state of the inscription when I worked on it in 1909-10 in connection with the study of the Propylaea. At that tihie I enlarged the number of fragments from five, the total proposed by Kirchhoff, Bannier, or Cavaignac, to seven- teen. Delays in the presentation of this material allowed me to supplement it by similar investigations of the inscriptions of the Parthenon {A.J.A. XVII, 1913, pp. 53-80) and of the Erechtheum {ihid. pp. 242-266), and also to benefit by the subsequent studies of Woodward {B.S.A. 1909-10, pp. 198- 205) and Bannier {Berl. Phil. W. 1911, p. 853; 1913, pp. 317-319). Woodward's studies, proceeding in two directions, led him to enlarge the number of known fragments from five to ten ; he included the two rejected Kirchhoff fragments and three others hitherto unpublished. Measuring the two opisthographic fragments united by Kirchhoff (J. Gr. I, 314, 315) and the two opisthographic fragments proposed by Kirchhoff but rejected by subsequent authorities {I.Gr. I, 312-313, 315 a-c), he observed 1 Cf. A.J.A. XVn, 1913, p. 56 and n. 1. ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS III 373 that they all taper in thickness to such an extent as to prove that they all belong to a single stele. Kirchhoff, indeed, had already suggested that to include these fragments the stele must have tapered from bottom to top (J. Gr. I, suppl. p. 38), and this solution overcomes the objection of Bannier and Ca- vaignac that they differ greatly in thickness. Woodward's conclusions as to the exact positions of the four opisthographic fragments, as indicated by their thicknesses, I am, however, unable to accept ; and in the following discussion I have re- tained my own restoration of the stele, which was completed several months before he measured the fragments in question. On the other hand, Woodward identified with certainty one new fragment (0 in the following list), which he correctly joined with two others which I liad placed side by side in the Epigraphical Museum; since his transcript (^B S.A. 1909-10, p. 199) does not represent the three fragments separately, I give them here : I Y I '0 I E HVrOPA APb K. A I L I O K AT AAA \ P X t M I S O S B AN""' Y E:E E E ■) AA / N :)AA § L - — / frg. M frg. N frg. Besides all these, I include five fragments already published but never yet assigned to the inscription of the Propylaea. Bannier (Bh. Mus. 1906, p. 223) had suggested that 1. &. I, 116 i, suppl. p. 25, and Kirchhoff that LG. I, 317 a, suppl. p. 88, and 5551, suppl. p. 128, were parts of some building 374 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOR accounts, but they were not more definitely identified. Foucart {B.C.R. 1889, p. 176, n.) and Michaelis {A.E. 10) assigned /. G-. I, 331 to the accounts of the Parthenon. I. Gr. I, 555 k, suppl. p. 56, was supposed to be a part of the tribute lists. Finally, I must mention four fragments which have not yet been published. The most important is numbered P in the following list ; I found it in the fourth room of the Epigraphi- cal Museum. Q, R, and S were scattered in the first room of the museum ; my attention was called to Q by Woodward ; attached to S I found a manuscript note to the effect that it joined the missing fragment I. G. I, 331. The four unpub- lished fragments are represented below : r 1 § I /\ I lEPA EYSBU I S T I C 'T I S L E 1 T / 3 D A => N § \ L E frg. R T A N frg. P I L I C L I C \ I L I G 5O0MAT L\r frg- Q frg. S For convenience I number the nineteen above-mentioned fragments as follows: k = I.G-. I, 116 1; B = 312-313; C = 314a-315a; = 314 6-315 6; E = 315a-e; F = 316 ; G = 317 a; H = 331 ; I = 331c?; J = 554 ; K = 555/fc; L = 565Z; M, N, 0=B.S.A. 1909-10, p. 199, and as shown above; P, Q, R, S as shown above. Seventeen of the nineteen frag- ments are now in the Epigraphical Museum at Athens ; two, /. Q-. I, 316 and 331, are missing. ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS III 375 There is one fundamental piece of external evidence which affects the arrangement, i.e. the testimony of Heliodorus and Plutarch that the building was erected in five years. This has always been accepted, and in view of what we shall learn from fragment E, I may here state that the information is exact. With the aid of this, and because the two fragments (C and D) from the top of the stele show on one side the prescript of the year 437/6 (ErE[i/]OYMEN0§APX0[i'To?], the first year of the work, according to Philochorus), and on the other side the prescript of the fourth year ([eVt re? rer] APTE5 APXES), Kirch- hoff correctly deduced the fact that the accounts of the first, second, and third years were inscribed on the obverse of the stele, and those of the fourth and fifth years on the reverse. The first attempt to arrange other fragments of the stele was by Cavaignac (^Etudes, pp. Ixx-lxxi). He observed that I.Cr. I, 564 (J) has writing characteristic of the obverse of the frag- ments C + D, and he assigned it to the third year, supposing that the fragment I. Gr. I, 244, of the tribute lists of the Delian Confederacy, would exclude it from the second year (436/5). That this conclusion is erroneous, even if we can suppose that J. Gr. I, 244 is rightly dated in the Corpus, will appear below. Again, he decided that the two fragments F + I joined by Ban- nier have writing characteristic of the reverse of the stone, and that they must date therefore from the fifth year ; both the writing and the preservation of the surface show clearly, how- ever, that these fragments belong to the obverse. Here, too, I may briefly describe Woodward's restoration. On the four large opisthographic pieces (B, C + D, and E) he distinguishes the obverse from the reverse correctly, but unfor- tunately supposed that the three fragments first published by him (M -)- N -I- 0) had the shape of the letters and the finish of the surface characteristic of the reverse (I.e. pp. 201, 202), and accepted without question Cavaignac's similar error in the case of F -f- I. With J the actual date, the second year, is obtained accidentally, by placing it in the upper part of the obverse, while the blank space at the end of the stone shows that it belongs at the bottom. The two opisthographic pieces dated by Rangabe and Kirchhoff (C -f- D) remain correct in Woodward's restora- tion, but the two other opisthographic pieces are assigned to 376 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOR the very dates at which they could not have been inscribed.* Furthermore, he accepts the arrangement foUovred in the case of the Parthenon (cf. A.J.A. 1913, p. 54), a pair of columns side by side, only v^here I. Cr. I, 315 a-h (E) proves that there was more than one column ; elsewhere he has a single column, subdividing into two columns at the bottom of the obverse, and returning into one column on the reverse. This unusual dis- position is represented in tabular form, B.S.A. 1909-10, p. 205. The four opisthographic fragments, B, C, D, and E, form the skeleton about which all the smaller pieces must be placed. As given in the Oorpus, B is either 10 cm. (Pittakis) or 14 cm. thick (Kohler), C and D are 11 cm. thick (Pittakis), and E varies from 17 to 18 cm. (Kohler). According to my meas- urements, C and D, at the top of the stele, are 0.111 m. thick ; at the bottom of the lowest line of letters on C the thickness has increased to 0.138 m., with a taper of 0.027 m. in 0.400 m. or of 0.0675 m. per metre. In fragment E, the thickness is 0.159 m. at the top of the topmost letters, and 0.186 m. at the bottom of the lowest letters, a taper of 0.025 m. in 0.370 m. or of 0.0675 m. per metre. In fragment B I find a variation be- tween 0.136 m. and 0.155 m., a taper of 0.019 m. in 0.277 m. or of 0.0685 m. per metre. The uniformity of these four frag- ments is emphasized by the high rate of the taper, 68 mm. per metre. ^ To compare building inscriptions only, the decrees for the Temple of Athena Nike were inscribed on a slab which tapered, to be sure,^ but only 0.008 m. (from 0.093 m. to 0.101 m.) in a distance of 0.295 m., a rate of 27 mm. per metre. On the other hand, the building inscription of the Parthenon was cut on a slab of uniform thickness, 0.198 m. throughout its 1 I.Cr. I, 313 is assigned to year II instead of year I, as is obtained below ; I.Q. I, 312 is given to year IV instead of year V ; I.Q. I, 315 a-h is assigned to years IT and III instead of I and III ; and I.G. I, 315 c is assigned to year V in- stead of year IV. 2 Woodward gives for C, 0.11 m. at tlie top and 0.13 m. at a point 0.35 m. lower ; for E, 0.17 m. at the top and 0.186 m. at 0.30 m. lower ; for B, 0.14 m. at the top and 0.155 m. at 0.30 m. lower ; this is a taper of 50-67 mm. per metre. These inaccuracies of measurement gave him false positions for B and E. 3 It has not the uniform thickness 0.09 m. given by Kabbadias, 'E0. 'Apx- 1897, p. 176. ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS III 377 height.* The opisthographic building inscriptions of the Erechtheum are cut on slabs of uniform thickness, 0.139 m. and 0.155 m. throughout. In fragments C + D the face with the prescript of the first year (J. Gr. I, 314) is in most part well preserved, with the original polish of the surface. The reverse (J. ITPO[7re0ei'] in line 6 being squeezed into eleven and a half spaces so as to finish evenly at the right. Here then we may terminate the prescript, leaving the remaining 0.058 m. in blank.i On the obverse of C 4- D, the prescript of the year 487/6 has 11. 2-5 perfectly stoichedon, an arrangement which is varied in 11. 6-7 of fragment C, though it is regained on fragment D with the purpose of ending line 6 evenly with those above. This variation was caused by the insertion or omission of one letter in line 6. There, the name EP . XA . . . . occupies 9|- letter spaces, so that it contained either 9 or 10 letters ; and judging by the manner in which the letters diverge more and more fi'om the axes of those above, it is evident that the pur- pose was to insert an extra letter ; the name was therefore ' Eirixa-pi'VO'; or '^irc^apiBe;. Line 7 follows the arrangement of line 6, except that the last two letters, having plenty of room, are spaced farther apart. 'ETTLxapi. . . ? ' Kfj-i^npoiredev is the fifth and last epistates ; next must follow the regular formula,^ which closed the prescript and announced that receipts were to be entered next, tovtok Xe/J^fiara to iviavro tovto rdSe, and the last four letters of this are preserved in line 7. Between the beginning of EP . XA . . . . and the beginning of TAAE, which 1 Four letter spaces at 24 mm. occupy 0.096 m., and the last half letter 0.007 m., total, 0.103 m. ; and 0.161 - 0.103 = 0.058 in. 2 In this restoration I follow Kirchhoff ; cf. the Parthenon accounts, A. J. A. 1013, p. 59. 382 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOR comes exactly below it, we must expect 50 letters, 22 for the name and deme of the fifth epistates, and 28 for the closing formula (omitting the rdSe). But since these include one extra letter, the ordinary stoiehedon arrangement must have had 49 letters. In these the average spacing is 24 mm., so that with 48 spacings (1.152 m.), and adding the two half let- ters at the ends (0.013 m.), we obtain the total .width of the prescript as about 1.165 m. To this must be added the sur- plus of 0.058 m. at the right edge of the stele, giving a mini- mum of 1.223 m. for the total width of the stone ; we may assume, therefore, that the width was about 1.23 m. We may be certain that the first annual prescript extended over the two double columns, as on the stele with the report of the Erechtheum Commission in 409/8 (Z. Gr. I, 322) ; such an arrangement accounts for the appearance of the first annual prescript on fragments C -f- D of the second double column. Another important result is the discovery of the number of letters that must be restored, at the left of those preserved in the prescript on C + D. In 11.4 and 5, in which the first pre- served letters are both I, we read 22 letters to the right edge ; the total number of letters in a regular line being 49, we must restore 27 at the left of the I. In line 2, where the first pre- served letter A is two spaces to the right of the I in 11. 4 and 5, we must restore therefore 29 letters at the left, instead of the 7 given by the restoration [eTria-Tar] A I. These new considera- tions lead to the following restoration : [®eot : Anemia : Tv^e] 2 \^a p \ L T € K T O V M. V £ CTIK A.€Si«at ETT I o-Ta t] A IP [pojrYUAIOEPA A §[tu.s 3[7luts as£ ■ypa/iju.aTeve £]YS EP E[t,]OYAA EN05APX0[v to s i \^A. f V a i o L n- I V t ir I T c s/8oA.es/t e i n £] I O [t] A A E [s] -I P T 5 E A P A A/ [ft a T e 5 [vertTTto'Ta t a i - : T] I M A E N [e s I k] A P I E Y § : A [- 6 [- . ]§ EP[i]XA[pi S£s]AMITP'"[7r£e£ V 7[tOVTOIsX CJLI/X.U T u. T EVtaVTO T o V t] T A A E ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS III 383 L. 1. — No trace of a letter is now visible ; the invocation is supplied on the analogy of that which heads the reverse of the stele; the latter could hardly have occurred without the former (cf. Cavaignac, Etudes, p. Ixx). L. 2. — Before the word [cTrto-TaT] Al, hitherto always restored as the first word of the inscription, were 22 letter spaces. The only possible specifica- tion of time, Em tcs irpdres apx^i, falls short by 5 letters. The gap must be filled by words which shall have a relation to the whole, equivalent to that of iiri I LEiratpcK 0€o8] E KTO[s] as restored by Dittenberger (5^Z7.i No. 17), or l LEC/uovtSes Eip] EKTO[s] (Kirchhoff, Abh. Berl. Akad. 1870, p. 108) is lost; Cavaignac must have attempted to restore EKTO as a demotic. On the contrary, the trace on J fits the nine spaces for the demotic in line 4 of /. G. I, 244, so that if the latter is correctly dated in the Corpus, we should read the name of the secretary in II. 63-64 of the Propylaea inscription as ^iXiraipos or ^iXeixoviSei Aixa-ovcvs (cf. A.J.A. 1913, pp. 68, 69 n. 2, 79). Col. II, line 8. — [xop]A§HIEPA5MI*[(9os], Cavaignac (Bf«rfes,p.lxx); to this Woodward rightly objects (B.S.A. 1909-10, p. 202, n. 1-2). For fi.ta-6o(ns, compare Col. I, line 24. I deferred until this moment the consid- eration of the size of the annual rental. This is probably the rental of one of the houses from which Athena derived part of her income,^ the amount being transferred in this case by her treasurers to the account of the epis- tatae. The Delian treasury received only 297 drachmae for the yearly rental of several houses (7. G. II, 814 a, A 30 ; b, 25), so that a larger sum than the 132 drachmae, obtained by completing the H of which one hasta is visible in line 8 of our inscription, would be surprising for a single house, besides extending beyond the left edge of the money column. '^ The rate was proba- bly about 8 per cent ; ^ the valuation of the house was probably about 1 650 dr., which, if not in connection with a large estate, would imply a house of the better class.* This rental of 132 dr. probably appeared in each annual account of the Propylaea. L. 9. — Cavaignac supposed that the space was not great enough for the four missing letters of [Trtva] KON unless the I was "en surcharge." The expenses of the second year begin in line 10 of Column II; and on fragment E, just above the five letters which form the beginnings of the five lines of the third annual prescript, we observe in line 33 the traces of / ( = A/\) of the surplus. The fracture of L (J. &. I, 555, 1) fits the bottom of the obverse of 1 Compare the lists of ok/oi iepal and of olK'/niara belonging to the Delian Apollo (I.G. II, 814, 817), 2 Kirchhoff and all later commentators prefer to make it larger. 8 A workshop, dwelling house, and another building in the Peiraeus, repre- senting a total value of 700 dr. , were rented for 54 dr. yearly, or 7f per cent (I. G. III, 1058 ; Frankel, Hermes, 1888, pp. 814-318) ; a house in Melite worth 8000 dr., together with a house in Eleusis worth 500 dr., brought in as rental 300 dr. or 8f per cent (Isaeus, Uepl toO ' Ayvlov Kkiipov, 42). * Compare the prices, for instance. In the inscription of Tenos: Dareste, Haussoullier, and Eeinach, Inscr. juridiques, I, pp. 64-87. ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS III 291 C, and completes the sums of money in 11. 11-13. Fragment S likewise belongs to the obverse, according to the preservation of the surface; with it must be considered the missing H, which joined it accurately. The items are clearly expenses; the spac- ing of the lines is slightly too great for the similar items of stonework on E, Column I; we must therefore place them in Column II, among the expenses of the second or third year. A more definite attribution seems to be impossible; at present I include them in the second year's account. The tiny frag- ment Q seems, according to its surfaces, to belong to the obverse of the stele. The items which it contains, fjua-dofjidTov, did not occur at the beginning of the expenses of the first, second,^ or fifth year, but did occur at the end of the expenses of the first and third years; probably the end is the natural place for it.^ With the end of the first year's account occupied by M + N + 0, and that of the third year apparently by A, we should place Q near the end of the account of the second year. 10 [a V u, X o] M A T A X XX XpHlpAhhl [ov £]MA"f N MpaXpHAAPI-IC r Xp HHHHArH [ ] X p H H H H 15 [ - ] VVV # * * I L I C 0[ L I C T [yu. O t s - LI0OTOMO l[s LI '^ OTOMO l[s- [- [\i 6l]A AO A[i as- # # * [k u T u,] \ I [v I O v] [^i ij > O A^ A T[o v] # * * 33/ [M irapeSo;iiei/ etc. 1 At the beginning of the expenses of the second year, Col. II, line 11, could be'read [/iio-eoMa] "'[oi'] only by an impossible crowding of the letters ; Cavaignac seems to be mistaken in saying that the second N\ of luaSoixirov is still distinct. 2 The Parthenon accounts, however,' give this item twice at the beginning and twice at the end. 392 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOR L. 12. — |>to-6o]M [a] ~ [ov], Cavaignac Q.c. p. Ixx). L. 13. — The first figure is probably p3 rather than P, as it is usually read. L. 33. — The amount is repeated in line 40, from which this is restored. The accounts of the third year begiri in line 35 of Column II; here are letters which can only be the beginnings of the five lines of the prescript. Restoring 11. 35-36 according to tlie usual formulae, it appears that the O at the beginning of line 36 was almost certainly the first letter of the demotic of the secretary of the epistatae ; and from Col. Ill, line 8, we learn that the demotic of the secretary for the third year was ®opir KioXv(TTios, or 'AvaKat£vs ; either of the two former, 11 letters in length, would fit tlie space exactly. The receipts begin in line 40 ; traces are preserved on both fragments E and R. The two fragments F + I, united by Ban- nier and assigned to our stele because of the formulae and the rough surface of the right edge (like that on the top of C + D), belong to the obverse, as is shown by the surface and the size and spacing of the letters.^ They come, therefore, from the 1 Cavaignac and Woodward assign them to the reverse, and so to the fifth year, for the same reason which identifies them as of the obverse, the style of the writing. ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS III 393 right edge of Column II, and contain receipts, so that they cannot be assigned to the second year, which closes its receipts in line 9. The third year is the only remaining possibility ; they would then be placed below and to the right of E and R. b 1 b ' 4. W w < o d < W o w > < O uj UJ L < - § < <: 5 W Z Q. O llI O < - I 1^ W ^ O -- <£ Lu I — I I — I ■ d I -si d w ~ O O LU O ^ w _i — -e- o o X c O >■ , w X I O o ^ H H a. w 2: < > < 1^ u \ z < Q- 1- < C I — I I — I < a d = o d-d «- ;>< Q. >- d a In restoring fragments F + 1, I have usually followed Bannier's readings (Ath. Mitt. 1902, p. 303). 394 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOR [A€k]A§TE§MEA, Bannier (I.e.). ['Av8/)OKA.es'Ay]ASIPP0U[u£u's], Rangab6 (Ant. hell. I, p. 164). The remaining portion of Column II was occupied by the expenses of the third year. Of these no fragment can be placed with absolute certainty, but their conclusion is probably to be read on fragment A (J. G. I, 116 i), which is certainly from the end of a column, with 13 cm. of blank space now remaining below the last line. The surface is not so perfectly preserved as on most of the obverse, and there is a possibility that the fragment belongs to the reverse. I give it here, how- ever, as of the obverse. [- ]rOLINANEYI[- [7rap£8oyU,]_NTO I §N EO l[s£7rtOrTaT£(Tl] Fragment G, with numbers only, must be assigned because of its surface to the obverse, and because of the amount of space at the left of the sums, to Column II. Here it can be referred only to an expense account, for the spacing of the en- tries does not fit that of the receipts of the third year ; it re- minds one of the two-line expense items which come near the end of a year's account, as, for instance, in M. The grain of the top of the stone would seem to associate it with the mica veins at the bottom of C, so that it probably contains expenses of the third year, rather than of the second. Another frag- ment with numbers only, K, seems to record expenses rather than receipts, since even obols are mentioned. But whether it comes from the first, second, or third years can hardly be determined. It seems to me unnecessary to reprint these frag- ments, and I can add nothing to Kirchhoff's comment in the Corpus. On turning to the reverse, we find that C -|- D, which formed the right-hand upper corner of the obverse, here belong to the left-hand upper corner. The text of these two combined fragments begins with the prescript of the fourth year, writ- ten in smaller letters which do not extend across the entire width of the stele, as at the top of the obverse, but only across Column III. ATTIC BUILDING ACCOUNTS III 395 Ul lu -^^ i. 1 1 b -1 4 '" < p h- ci <- o 1 — 1 S. «5 O UJ Q. w 5 ■u a 1 1 — 5 ?- O — -1 f < I- — w \ 1 W o __ d LU (/I 1 — 1 1 — 1 ~ t- 1 — 1 X UJ X O p 1 1 -J UJ O s p w =^UJ o b 1 1 — \ ^ >- — h- I 1 UJ a -i Q. — r 1 1 1 1 1 — 1 O z <: X Q- O C Q. 1 — 1 <_> o H UJ — 0. -• m 1 — 1 < s ^ w O <: <: 1 — 1 '" w w — w w t- 1 — 1 z w w UJ 5. < h >- a ui a LU UJ ^ 1- tj 1- - h- Q. — t- o H s» — ^- < ■< ^ i- < a 1 — i < CL c 1- — Q. - < UJ W < O o 1 — 1 1 — 1 1 1 — 1 w ® V w 1= 1 — 1 © 1 — 1 ^ 1 — 1 p a .5 1 1 1 1 L. 1. ^This invocation, restored also by Bannier (Berl. Phil. W. 1911, p. 853), is similar to those which headed the accounts of the statue of Athena Parthenos (^I.G. I, 298) or the Parthenon inventory for 422/1 (/.(?. 1, 170; Wilhelm, Hermes, 1901, p. 449). L. 4 — A P I [o-T . . . ] OSM [eXtreus] , Kirchhoff ; a trace of -- as the eighth letter indicates that the name must be 'Apio-TvAAos. L.5. — ['^]EM( )E[. ., Kirchhoff; I restore TIM[6o-r/3aTos] KE[ ] to fit the space. The receipts of this year, so far as they are preserved oa fragments C + D, may be repeated almost without variation from Kirchhoff's restoration. 396 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOB u> & t/» t/l >> ' w 1 1 C/i 1 - o P o s ■ ^ Jj (-» o s w « i 1 — 1 1 — 1 1 1 o z rfS lU Q. 1 — 1 1 1 1- o 1- UJ UJ ^ 1 — 1 - ^ o ^ r — 1 Q. w _i O o o a. 1 — r C >- lIj 1 — ) 1 1 < >- w 1 1 lIj ^ ^ O w _i ~~ 1- 0. o is: h- < Q_ X o UJ < < < — UJ _i O O c h- CL < — H Q. O UJ w 1- H - < ^ I^ o r 1 — 1 i — 1 d T? hi w 1 .a; V -1 — § C- X u r"~l 1 — 1 f— -) 1 — 1 r—i P w ? ;^ s. a 1 — O d V 1 ;;k 1 — 1 1 — 1 w l- 4. o d t- b ^ 1 — 1 1 I 1 t- d s. 1 — 1 - O .-', . o Q. d t- 1 — 1 ^ UJ H < 1 1 1 s. V i. iJli Q- < is: O ■e- c l- a. 1 — 1 o < H UJ c UJ H d o 1 1 < X UJ O > < X 1 — 1 1 1 i- o Q. CL z w Z UJ < z c (* c_ < O UJ UJ 1- > o I — 1 w UJ 1- _s ^ ^ ^ < 1 — 1 W § < -i o i. ■< O 1 — 1 1— LlJ < Q. UJ Q. s w _i f- is: — s. O t- >«S < ^ < w < a -©• s d Q. — Q. — a. a. o Q. o < c_ < o < ^ :« S d C UJ C_ X T u •a t= t= At the left of the entry in line 7 is the sura -] HHHAPhl-l-l-. LI. 11-12. — rP0T6A[ei/es]KE[<^i(ri£iJs], Kirchhoff; but Cavaignao {jStvdes, p. Ixxi) pointed out that instead of the supposed A a vertical hasta was visible; I verified this, and found that the letter was clearly N. The only possible Attic name of the proper length is P POTON[tKos]. Again, in the demotic, there are too few spaces for K E[(^i(ri£]YS ; we must read ATTIC BUILBTNQ ACCOUNTS III 397 K E[po/*e] Y^- It so happens that the only lipuyroviKiK known in Attica is €K Kepa/AcW, on sepulchral inscriptions of about 400 B.C. {I.G. II, 1235, 1238) ; but he is not necessarily the same as our secretary. L.16. — dor AOr'O^TPATIASP, Kirchhoff; the last letter, H , is cer- tainly to be read Tl, and I can only suggest that the somewhat inappropriate word Tifi.(. was written here by mistake ; it does not appear in the similar entry in Column II. A few traces of the expenses of the fourth year appear on the back of fragment E (/. Gr. I, 315 c) ; they show that the account ended in line 46. 45 nejNTEL E$l KaTa/u,£vtov] -- -- n]POPYLAIA TrapeSofjLevT otsveotseiri n-]TATE S I L. 41. — Xt^oTo/iois nejNTELESI, Woodward (I.e. p. 203); the space is, however, too great for this. LI. 45-46. -. — Woodward believes that this is a final statement of the financial position at the close of the work, and so would assign it to the fifth year. It might be assumed that the prescript of the fifth year and the receipts are continued in Column III, but for the fact that the receipts appear also in 11. 19-26 of Column IV, on the back of fragment B (J. Gr. I, 312). From the obverse we learned that one year's accounts normally occupied two-thirds of a column ; the receipts at the top of Column IV could not be those of an additional sixth year (throwing aside the testimony of Helio- dorus), unless we suppose that the fifth year was squeezed into the lowest third of Column III, which seems impossible.* On the other hand, agreeing that the receipts on the reverse of B (Column IV) are those of the fifth year, they would have been overwhelmingly numerous if they had begun in Column III. It seems more probable that at the end of the year 433/2, the ^ The accounts of the fourth year occupy about as much of Column III (11. 1-46) as those of the first, year cover in Column I (11. 1-51), i.e. about two- thirds of a column. 398 WILLIAM BELL DINSMOOK secretary to the epistatae, finding that the work was now ended because of the transfer of the energies of the state to financing the operations which began in the winter of 433/2 against Potidaea, and that economy of space on the stele was no longer necessary, began anew with Column IV for the accounts of the fifth year. There was a similar extravagance in spacing the account of the last year of the Parthenon, the same year 433/2 (^A.J.A. 1913, p. 76). After the receipts of the fifth year, in line 27 of Column IV appears the heading ' AvaXofJ^ara, and parts of these expenses are preserved in 11. 28-32. My reading does not differ from that of the Corpus (/. 6r. I, 312), and I shall not therefore repeat the text. The expenses of the fifth year cannot have continued after line 40 ; for from line 41 to the bottom of the stele, a rough werkzoll (visible on E) occupies the space which would have been filled by the accounts of the completion of the building, if the work had not been in- terrupted at that point by the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. The werlezoll here is as characteristic of the sudden ces- sation of work as are the werkzoll and bosses on the pavements and walls of the Propylaea themselves. William B. D'insmooe. American School op Classical Studies, Athens.