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Inscriptions from Melos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Cecil Smith
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The following inscriptions were either copied or excavated by the members of the British School during the spring of 1896, some during our preliminary visit in January, but the greater part during March—May, when we were living at Trypete. The majority of the inscriptions of the island are the product of the promiscuous amateur digging which has been going on probably almost continuously for nearly a century: they are consequently usually in the hands of peasants, who in most cases can only give one vague traditions regarding their original provenance. The personal interest of their present owners in them is naturally very small: it awakens to a languid existence when from time to time a foreign visitor makes them the subject of notebooks and (occasionally) of drachmas: but for the most part no sort of care is taken for their preservation, and if an inscription is to be employed as a paving-stone, it is usually the inscription side which meets the foot and the weather. Of course this state of things is not confined to Melos: I only mention it because there is at last serious talk of collecting the inscriptions and perhaps some of the other more important antiquities of Melos into a local museum: whether as the result of our urgent representations or of those of the German visitors of last year, or as the result of years of suggestions, it matters very little. It is greatly to be hoped that the good intentions of the demarch of Castri may soon be carried out.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 17 , November 1897 , pp. 1 - 21
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1897

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page 1 note 1 Besides the collections in C. I. G. 2424 etc., I. G. A. 412 etc. Ross, in Inscr. Gr. Ined. iii. 226Google Scholar etc. and Reisen, iii. 19, see Ann. dell' Inst. 1829 p. 343; 1843, p. 332; Bull. dell' Inst. ii. (1830) p. 195; Rangabè, , Ant. Hell. ii. (1855), 1193 etc.Google Scholar; Ἐφ. Ἀρχ. 1859, 3507 etc.; Bull. de Corr. Hell. ii. 521; iii. 256; Ath. Mitth. i, 246; ii. 223; xi. 114; xxi. 220; Ricci, in Mon. Ant. Lincei, ii. (1894), 276Google Scholar; and a Latin inscr. in C. I. L. iii. 490. Besides these there is a small series published in Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit. second series, vol. v. p. 29 from Lieut. Leycester's copies, but the copies do not seem to have been preserved.

page 3 note 1 Pollak, in Ath. Mitth. xxi. p. 222Google Scholar regards the absence of horizontal lines as evidence for attributing an inscription to the second, as against the third period; but he gives no reason for this view, which seems to me highly improbable.

page 9 note 1 For other instances of the same formula see C.I.A. vol. iv. (suppl.) pt. ii., nos. 1659b and 1672b. The first of these is a stelè marking an of Zeus Kataibates.

page 19 note 1 The recurrence of the first compound Κλϵ-in the names of Kleisagora and Kleonymes is in favour of their being brother and sister: Kydila similarly suggests the second compound in the names of her brother and paternal grand-father.