Meyer2010 no. 17 List of manumissions in court and dedicatory bowls

List of manumissions in court and dedicatory bowls

Meyer, Metics, no. 17 Date: ca. 336/5 - 322/1 BC

(1) . . . ^[1] libation bowl (phialē), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ Aigyptia living in -, acquitted in a prosecution by (apophugousa) Lysikrates son of E-;^[2] libation bowl (phia), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ (5) Armenios, dealer in linen (sindonopōlēs), living in -, acquitted in a prosecution by (apophugōn) Platon son of Ar-;^[3] libation bowl (phia), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ Eutychis, textile worker (talasiourg), living in -, acquitted in a prosecution by (apophugousa) Chairippos son of Chairippos -; libation bowl (phia), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ Olympos living in Skambonidai, acquitted in a prosecution by (apophugōn) (10) Lysanias of Phrearrhioi; libation bowl (phia), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ Satyrion living in Thymaitadai, acquitted in a prosecution by (apophugōn) Lysanias of Phrearrhioi; libation bowl (phia), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ Euboule living in Piraeus, acquitted in a prosecution by (apophugousa) Chairippos son of Autokles of Pithos; libation bowl (phia), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ (15) Lysis living in Piraeus, acquitted in a prosecution by (apophugōn) Hegemon son of Hegesippos of Kerameis; libation bowl (phia), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ Ergasion living in Piraeus, acquitted in a prosecution by (apophug) Antikles son of Proxenides of Sounion; libation bowl (phia), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ Nikandros living in Piraeus, shopkeeper (kapē), acquitted in a prosecution by (apophugōn) (20) Antikles son of An- of Sounion; libation bowl (phia), weight: 100 dr. ⸏ Pamphile living in -, acquitted in a prosecution by (apophugousa) . . .

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Meyer, Metics, no. 17 (Translated text)

IG II² 1567 (PHI)

Translation by: Mills McArthur

Images: Aleshire - (1)
Krateros - (1)

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: List

Findspot: Unknown (EM 7949)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] For an introduction to this set of inscribed records see Meyer, Metics, no. 1 with notes. Lewis (Attic Manumissions, p. 234), followed by Meyer (Metics, p. 115), assigns the present fragment and IG II² 1568 (Meyer, Metics, no. 18) to the same stele. [2] Possibly, rather than a patronym, the Ε here is the start of a demotic. See lines 10 and 12 for omission of the patronym. [3] IG II² prints no traces of the patronym, reading only Πλάτωνα. However, Meyer was able to read an additional two letters, remarking (2010, p. 116), “a man named Πλάτωνα Ἀρ̣[-] tempts towards identification with Plato the famous philosopher, Πλάτων Ἀρίστωνος of Kollytos (PA/APF 11855), but in this case it seems to me we would need more certain evidence before that full name could be restored and that identification made.” The identification is indeed tempting; the rare name Armenios occurs prominently in the Platonic corpus, in the Myth of Er that closes the Republic (10.614b). Could it be that the philosopher named one of his slaves after a character in his literary oeuvre? But Meyer is right to urge caution. Apart from the poor preservation of the patronym, there are at least two objections to the identification. One is the tradition that Plato’s proper name was Aristokles, leaving it uncertain that the philosopher would appear under the name Plato in an official document of this sort (Diogenes Laertius 3.4). An even stronger objection is chronological: the Attic manumission inscriptions, especially those (like this one) that mention phialai, are Lykourgan in character, dating to ca. 336/5 BC or later, over a decade after Plato’s death in 348/7.

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