LambertPitt2024 no. 1 List of demesmen

List of demesmen

Lambert and Pitt, Grammateion 2024 no. 1 Date: 340/39 or 313/2 BC

ἐπὶ Θεοφράστου ἄρχ[οντος] Εὐθυδόμου δημαρχ[οῦντος] vacat Εὐθύδημος Εὐθυδ̣ό[μου] Κλεάρισ[τος Ἱε]ροκλ[έους?] (5)Εὐθύδομ[ος Εὐ]θυδό[μου] Δημοσθέν[ης Δ]ημοφά[νους] Αἰνιάδης Καλλίου Ἀντίας Εὐφιλήτου Αἰνιάδης Καλ̣λ̣ιφάν[ους or του] (10)Ἀντικλείδης Ἀντιλ̣έ[οντος] [- - -] ?

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References:

Lambert and Pitt, Grammateion 2024 no. 1 (Translated text) (Grammateion) (AIO)

IG II² 2394 (PHI)

SEG 48.182

AIO 2840 (AIO)

Humphreys, Kinship, 905-7

Russo, Ripartizioni, D111

Translation by: Stephen Lambert, Robert Pitt

Monument type: Unknown

Inscription type: List of names (deme)

Findspot: Koursala (Fourmont) = Koropi (Unknown)

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[1] Textual Note. All editions of this list of names have been based on a transcript made by the Abbé Michel Fourmont on his visit to Athens in 1729. Earlier editions were not, however, based on the original of Fourmont's manuscript (BnF Supplément grec MS 854), but on a faulty copy prepared by his nephew for a publication that never materialised (BnF Supplément grec MS 569). This faulty copy underlay the early-19th century edition of the inscription by A. Boeckh (CIG 94) and subsequent editions, including IG II² 2394, were based on Boeckh's version. S. D. Lambert and R. Pitt have now published a new, more accurate, text based on Fourmont's original transcript (Grammateion 13, 2024, 5-13). AIO's text and translation follow this new edition.

The inscription contains a list of deme members headed by the Athenian archon, Theophrastos (archons of that name held office in 340/39 and 313/2 BC, cf. Tracy, ADT, 73), and by the demarch Euthydomos. Since a man named Euthydemos son of Euthydomos, i.e. the same name and father's name as the man listed in l. 3 of our inscription, is attested in the city deme of Melite in IG II² 1927, l. 4, this list was for a long time assigned to that deme (thus e.g. D. Whitehead, Demes, 1986, 384 no. 78). In Rationes Centesimarum (1997), 150 (= SEG 48.182), however, Lambert pointed out that it is not uncommon for the same name-father's name pair to occur in different demes (cf. C. Habicht, Hesperia 59, 1990, 459-62, and ZPE 103, 1994, 117-27) and that, taken as a whole, the names suggested that the deme that produced this list may have been Kydantidai (a small deme, bouleutic quota 1 or 2, of uncertain location in the inland trittys of Aigeis, cf. SEG 39.148) or Oa, a small-to-medium-sized deme (bouleutic quota 4, IG II³ 4, 21, 16-20, IG II³ 4, 26, 16-20, cf. IG II³ 4, 55, 16-19, Agora XV 42, 167-71. Only 3 councillors, however, appear to have been listed at IG II³ 4, 83, 15-18, perhaps e.g. because one had died. The quota apparently remained the same after the tribal reform of 307/6 BC, Traill, Political Organization, 1975, Table III, cf. IG II³ 1, 1155, 96-100) most likely in the area of the largest deme of its trittys, Paiania, cf. CGRN 25. Alternatively, as Matthaiou notes ap. Lambert and Pitt, the deme might be Paiania itself.

The findspot of the inscription as recorded by Fourmont, Koursala, is an old name for Koropi. This is distant from Melite, but might be consistent with Kydantidai, Oa or Paiania. The topography of this area, however, has been complicated by the discovery of a cemetery at the northern end of Koropi including funerary monuments of the deme Oe, a deme of the coastal trittys of Oineis conventionally located north-west of Athens in the Thriasian plain (cf. Humphreys, 1029-30). For another inscription found north-east of Koropi see IG II³ 4, 516. On demes in general see RO 46.

Added: 21 Jan 2024
Updated: 26 Oct 2024
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