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Inscriptions from Dodona.—II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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In the first number of this Journal I passed in review a rare survival of antiquity, the Oracle-inscriptions of Dodona. These, as was there stated, formed a part only of the collection of C. Carapanos. For the remainder, though many of the inscriptions are of great interest, dialectically, archaeologically, and historically, I cannot claim the attraction of novelty which so conspicuously characterised the Oracle-inscriptions as relics sui generis. I have thought, however, that it may be not unacceptable to English students to have before them in an accessible form the full tale of the Dodonaean texts, so far as they are legible and not absolutely fragmentary. As, then, in the former number I gave the Oracle-inscriptions seriatim with more or less of commentary, so I propose in the following pages to attempt an examination and explanation of the documents which complete the catalogue. It will be hardly necessary to say that, as before, my indebtedness to previous critics—Bursian (Sitzungsber. d. kön. Baier. Ges. d. Wiss. Ph.-Hist. Cl. 1878), Blass, Fränkel, Christ, Carapanos himself—is considerable.
According to the enumeration given on p. 229 of the first number of the Journal, the inscriptions remaining to be noticed are (1) Ex voto inscriptions on bronze. (2) Inscriptions on bronze or copper: these comprise (a) decrees of citizenship; (b) deeds of manumission; (c) deeds of proxenia; (d) a deed concerning right of intermarriage; (e) donation of property; (f;) purchase of a slave. (3) An inscription on an iron strigli. (4) Two or three inscriptions on terra cotta. (5) A proxenia-decree, the most complete in the collection, on a limestone tablet.
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page 104 note 1 We may perhaps compare the practice observed by members of sacerdotal families in tracing their origin as well as the titles of their priesthood to the god whose priests they were. Thus we read in C.I.G. 1353: 
(cf. 1340, 1349, 1355, 1373, 1374, and Le Bas, , Voyage Arch., ii. n. 245).Google Scholar Still more precise is the copied inscription of Halicarnassus, C.I.G. 2655, where are mentioned by name, with the duration of their office for a period of 504 years, successive priests of Poseidon, from the date of the monument itself back to Telamon, a supposed son of the god, the seventh in descent, Anthas, being possibly a historical personage.
page 106 note 1 See below the remarks on Pl. xxxii. 3, p. 120.
page 107 note 1 See Vol. I. of this Journal, p. 231.
page 108 note 1 The following, too short or fragmentary to call for notice in the text, may be given here: εὐπο on the base of a small vase (Pl. xxiii. 7); συπο on a fragment of a large goblet (Pl. xxiii. 8); …αȋος Διΐ Νάῳ δῶρον on a square plate of bronze (Pl. xxiv. 1); Διῒ Ναῒῳ on a colander, perhaps used for sacrificial purposes (Pl. xxiv. 2); Διώνᾳ ἐπ on a small goblet (Pl. xxvi. 3); ις Δία on the handle of a vase (Pl. xxvi. 4 and 4 bis); ἀλκε)(?= ἀλκή) on a large ring (Pl. xxvi. 7); &c.
page 109 note 1 Pl. xxvii, 1, infra.
page 110 note 1 Obviously an error for προστάτα.
page 110 note 2 The fact that the Atintanians were an outlying tribe of Epirotes and perhaps hardly regarded as part of Epirus may explain why Kleomachos should have had conferred on him honours naturally accorded to aliens.
page 111 note 1 His reading seems to be supported by a comparison of another deed of enfranchisement (Pl. xxxii. 5) which runs, as restored: 
(sic)… Here again we have a king Alexander whose name is associated with that of a Προστάτας of the Molossians and a γραμματεύς of the σύνεδοι, which, in the genitive case, may well be the missing word after Μενεδάμου in Pl. xxvii. 3; or better, perhaps, we may restore thus: 
page 115 note 1 This explanation of the words γένοςἐκ γενεâς is suggested to me by Mr. Ridgeway, who compares the gradation 
in Pl. xxxi.
page 117 note 1 
page 117 note 2 
page 119 note 1 Better Νάου, i.e Ναΐου.
page 119 note 2 Egger however(to whom the restoration 
is due) takes the view that the 
corresponds exactly to the 
of Pollux (Onom. viii. 63), a body of judges or ordinary citizens is invited from without to decide in cases where local tribunals were held to be inadequate from excess or business or partiality.
page 119 note 3 
page 119 note 4 
With this reading Carapanos's ‘λυσείτριον, perhaps a local synonym for λύτρον,’ disappears. Rangabé, Arch. Zeit. 1876, p. 118Google Scholar) suggests 
and Πολιτ he says is obviously the beginning of the name of the Prostates. (Comp. Dem. F. L. 394, where the ransom of a hoplite ia given at from three to five minae.)
page 120 note 1 Comp. 
and 
on an inscription mentioned p. 106, above.
page 120 note 2 The form 
could not come from ναός as Bursian supposes.
page 120 note 3 
Comp. also pl. xxv. 2 (above, p. 106).
page 121 note 1 
