Inscriptions from Upper Macedonia

A. J. B. Wace; A. M. Woodward

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Inscriptions from Upper Macedonia

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A. J. B. Wace and

A. M. Woodward

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Upper Macedonia is the upland country which lies at the back of Mount Bermius as regards Macedonia properly so-called, which is the Campagna between the hills and the sea at the head of the Gulf of Salonica. Beyond the hills Olympus, Bermius, and their continuation northward, lies Upper Macedonia about the valleys of the Haliakmon and Erigon and round the lakes of Ochrida, Presba and Kastoria. This was the fourth region of Macedonia according to the Roman division after the defeat of Perseus at Pydna in 168. This region according to Livy included Eordaia, Lynkestis, Pelagonia, Stymphalis (sic), Elimiotis and Atintania. The country to-day falls naturally by its geographical features into several divisions and these correspond, as far as our information goes, with the ancient districts. Going westwards from Edessa along the line of the Via Egnatia, near the lakes, of which Lake Ostrovo is the chief, the traveller first reaches some hilly country which forms the watershed between the valleys of the Erigon and Haliakmon. To the north in the valley of the Erigon is a long, narrow plain stretching from Fiorina past Monastir to just beyond Krushevo and Prilep. The northern part of this plain is itself separated from the rest by a low range of hills about the villages of Tsepik and Topoltsani.

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Information: Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 18 , November 1912 , pp. 166 - 188

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^{page 166 note 1} The inscriptions here published were found by Mr. Wace during his journeys in Macedonia in 1911 and 1912, on the first of which he was accompanied by Mr. M. S. Thompson. Mr. Wace is responsible for the copies of the inscriptions and the topographical notes, Mr. Woodward for the editing of the inscriptions.

^{page 166 note 2} Cf. Strabo, p. 326 fin.

^{page 166 note 3} Livy, xlv, 29, 30.

^{page 167 note 1} Cf. Pauly-Wissowa, s.n.

^{page 167 note 2} P. 323.

^{page 168 note 1} xxxi, 39, 40.

^{page 168 note 2} Demitsas, Μακεδονία (cited below as Demitsas) No. 258 from Tsepik; Strabo, p. 327.

^{page 168 note 3} Cf. Arrian i. 5, 5.

^{page 168 note 4} Wace-Thompson, , Prehistoric Thessaly, pp. 216, 255, 259Google Scholar.

^{page 168 note 5} Mordtmann, , Ath. Mitt. 1893, pp. 418Google Scholar ff., Nos. 8 ff.

^{page 168 note 6} See Pauly-Wissowa, s.n. Deuriopos; Heuzey, , Mission de Macédoine, pp. 314Google Scholar ff.

^{page 168 note 7} Evans, , Archæologia, Vol. xlix, p. 147Google Scholar.

^{page 168 note 8} Demitsas, p. 251.

^{page 168 note 9} E.g. Nos. 236, 237, 239–241, 245.

^{page 169 note 1} No. 229.

^{page 169 note 2} Nos. 252, 253.

^{page 169 note 3} No. 254.

^{page 169 note 4} No. 257.

^{page 169 note 5} Nos. 258, 259, 260.

^{page 169 note 6} Nos. 261–265, 267, 271.

^{page 169 note 7} No. 268.

^{page 169 note 8} Nos. 269, 270.

^{page 169 note 9} Demitsas, pp. 310 ff.

^{page 169 note 10} O.G.I. 332, 1. 49 (note 33); cf. Syll.² 600, l. 65 (at Erythrae : 65 is wrongly given as 15 in Index iv I ad loc.); Gruppe (in Iwan-Müller), p. 1405, note 1.

^{page 169 note 11} Ἀκυλ(λ)ία, at Ancyra, C.I.G. 4030 ( = O.G.I. 545, q.v.); Demitsas, p. 258, No. 218.

^{page 169 note 12} Male, Demitsas, p. 64, No. 53; female, Demitsas, p. 467, No. 419.

^{page 169 note 13} Städleverwaltung, pp. 292, 553; cf. B.S.A. xvii, p. 246Google Scholar.

^{page 170 note 1} Demitsas, p. 307, No. 263.

^{page 170 note 2} P. 32, No. 1 is dated to A.D. 180; p. 64, No. 53 ( = p. 234, No. 216) to A.D. 143 (?); p. 666, No. 821 to A.D. 39; the other examples are not dated.

^{page 170 note 3} Mr. G. L. Cheesman has kindly furnished this identification: during the second century it was stationed at Singidunum, and naturally recruited in the Danubian provinces.

^{page 170 note 4} Heuzey, , Mission de Macédoine, p. 269Google Scholar, No. 110 (= Dem. 190, =C.I.L. iii. 592)Google Scholar. It dates apparently from the reign of Caracalla.

^{page 170 note 5} Is it possibly Ἀπρίκιος?

^{page 171 note 1} Kaibel, , Epigrammata Graeca, 141, 546Google Scholar, add. 97a, add. 288a.

^{page 171 note 2} I.G. iii 2, 3224Google Scholar; I.G. ix 2, 759Google Scholar.

^{page 171 note 3} Cf. the feminine name Γράπτη: Demitsas, op. cit. p. 37, No. 5, 1. 13 (= Kaibel, op. cit. 517), p. 493, No, 484; Kaibel, op. cit. 369; C.I.G. 3846Z,¹add. 3857q.

^{page 171 note 4} Nos. 234, 335, as Σηούιος each time.

^{page 171 note 5} For β = Latin v cf. Meisterhans, op. cit. p. 77, note 666.

^{page 172 note 1} For Athenian examples cf. Meisterhans, op. cit. p. 34, note 185; for the misspelling of short and familiar words papyri give us plentiful evidence: e.g. Berliner Griechische Urkunden, iii 846Google Scholar (= Milligan, Greek Papyri, No. 37) contains inter alia ἀιγὼ, σαι (=ἐγὼ, σε) αἴγραψα, αἱκάστην ἡμαίραν, αἰμαυτῷ.

^{page 172 note 2} Op. cit. p. 263. There is a votive relief to Poseidon and Amphitrite at Siatista, Ath. Mitt. 1902, p. 316, No. 39; cf. below p. 184, note 4.

^{page 173 note 1} Λ[ηνόν] in l. 2 is uncertain but not unlikely; it is common in this sense at Thessalonica, cf. Demitsas, Nos. 402, 409, 410, 426, 427, 468, 475, 506, etc.

^{page 173 note 2} E.g. I.G. xiv, 1781Google Scholar, which contains λιβερτῖνος, and ends ἄντι δίον τέρτιον Νῶναις, and cf. op. cit. Index xvii, ad fin.; the most striking performance is perhaps κομπαραουηρουντ (comparaverunt!) 1989, l. 5. For Greek inscriptions in Latin characters, ibid. 1612, 1705, etc.

^{page 173 note 3} It is easy to find parallels, e.g. Τέβεριος, Dittenb, . O.G.I. 660Google Scholar, l. 1.

^{page 173 note 4} Dem. 455; in Thasos, I.G. xii 8, 611Google Scholar (= Dem. p. 857, No. 2).

^{page 174 note 1} As in a metrical epitaph from near Dium, Kaibel, , Epigr. Gr. 544Google Scholar.

^{page 174 note 2} Cf. Μουσῶν ὄχ᾿ ἄριστος, op. cit. 330, l. 1; πολλ᾿ὀλοφυρὁμενος, ibid. 704, l. 3; παιδείην ὤπασε Μοῦσα, ibid. 474, l. 5.

^{page 174 note 3} Ωπαρε. I take to be a slip of the engraver for ὤπασε.

^{page 176 note 1} Op. cit. Nos. 242, 243, 244.

^{page 176 note 2} Pauly-Wissowa, s.n.; cf. Polyb. v, 108. Rome gave it to Illyria at the end of the second Macedonian War; Livy, xxxiii, 34; Polyb. xviii, 30.

^{page 176 note 3} Diod. xvi, 8.

^{page 176 note 4} Op. cit. Nos. 329 ff.

^{page 177 note 1} Op. cit. p. 375, No. 33S; the two other fragments from this gate (infra Nos. 21. 22) seem to have suffered further mutilation since Demitsas published them.

^{page 178 note 1} No. 217. This was recopied by Messrs. Wace and Thompson in 1911 and Mr. Woodward hopes to publish this copy, which is more complete than that of Demitsas, in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1913, pt. 2.

^{page 178 note 2} Livy, xxxi, 40; Procopius, , de Aedif. iv, 3Google Scholar; cf. Pauly-Wissowa, s.n.

^{page 179 note 1} We owe our knowledge of this site to Sir Arthur Evans who generously placed his notes on Orestis at our disposal. For Argos Orestikon see Pauly-Wissowa, s.n.; Appian, , Syr. x, 63Google Scholar.

^{page 179 note 2} Nos. 25 and 26 below.

^{page 179 note 3} Livy, xxxiii, 34; Polyb. xviii, 30.

^{page 179 note 4} It is usually Ν. Κλ. Καῖσαρ Σεβ. Γερμ. Αὐτοκρ.

^{page 179 note 5} Rather than ᾿Ορεστῶν, on the evidence of ᾿Ορέστοις in the Dranitshevo inscription (Demitsas, op. cit. No. 217).

^{page 179 note 6} Mr. Wace noted T before ΟΣ, though it is not visible on the squeeze, which is unfortunately too much damaged to reproduce; Bechtel-Fick, , Griechische Personennamen, pp. 29Google Scholar f.

^{page 180 note 1} For such names ending in -ᾶς cf. Kühner-Blass, , Ausführliche Grammatik der gr. Sprache, i, pp. 493Google Scholar f.; Mayser, , Gr. der gr. Papyri, p. 253Google Scholar; Bechtel-Fick, , Griechische Personennmen, pp. 29Google Scholar f.

^{page 180 note 2} Cf. Demitsas, op. cit. p. 141, No. 169 (at Dium), Σέμνη παροδί[τ]ες χέριν, χέρετε παροδῖτε (=Σέμνη παροδίταις χαίρειν, χαίπετε παροδῖται!); and see note on No. 4 above.

^{page 180 note 3} Cf. Πρευγένης, Paus. iii. 2, 1; vii. 20, 8; and Pape-Benseler, Wörterbuch, for names beginning with Πραυ.

^{page 181 note 1} I.G. ix 2Google Scholar, No. 329.

^{page 181 note 2} P. 327. If the Ion of Strabo (p. 328) is the Mourgani river, then perhaps Oxyneia may be identified with the ruined city at Smolia near the source of the Mourgani.

^{page 181 note 3} Northern Greece, iv, pp. 115Google Scholar ff.

^{page 181 note 4} i. 7, 5

^{page 181 note 5} Plutarch, , Pyrrhus, 6Google Scholar; the spelling Stymphaia seems to be a mistake, cf. Diod. xvii, 57; Livy, xxxi, 40.

^{page 181 note 6} Thuc. ii, 80.

^{page 181 note 7} B.S.A. xvii, pp. 193Google Scholar ff.

^{page 181 note 8} Demitsas, p. 218; cf. Heuzey, , Mission de Macédoine, p. 296Google Scholar; the latter offers no etymological evidence.

^{page 181 note 9} Cf. Strabo, pp. 325, 326; Plutarch, op. cit., loc. cit.

^{page 182 note 1} Northern Greece, i, p. 322Google Scholar; he saw a battered statue in this village.

^{page 182 note 2} Cf. Leake, op. cit. i, pp. 313 ff.

^{page 182 note 3} Kiepert, Formae Orbis Antiqui, text to Plate xvi. On the hill called Kastro a little to the west of the village, apart from the inscriptions (Nos. 31, 32) the only visible remains are Byzantine.

^{page 182 note 4} Northern Greece, loc. cit.; two inscriptions from Siatista are published by Struck, , Ath. Mitt., 1902, p. 316Google Scholar, Nos. 38, 39.

^{page 182 note 5} Mission de Macédoine, p. 296, ad fin.

^{page 182 note 6} Demitsas, pp. 240–242, 254–257; B.C.H. 1884, Plate xii, pp. 342 ff; Constantinople, Cat. des Bronzes, No. 4.

^{page 184 note 1} And see the note on the name in No. 23, above. Θευδᾶς is not rare in Asia Minor, cf. PapeBenseler, s.n.

^{page 184 note 2} Schol. ap. Ar. Ran. 1403.

^{page 184 note 3} Cf. Rouse, , Creek Votive Offerings, p. 234Google Scholar; Tod, , B.S.A. viii, pp. 197Google Scholar ff.

^{page 184 note 4} See I.G. ix. 2Google Scholar, passim.

^{page 185 note 1} Heuzey, op. cit. p. 318, quotes an inscription of A.D. 482 from Thessalonica dated by the Actian Era; in his inscription from Monastir, p. 317, No. 124, the date can hardly be correctly given, for ΖΞΩ (866) = A.D. 720 seems out of the question, in view of the lettering.

^{page 186 note 1} The ε is in the raised border, the ωϲ above the Λ.

^{page 186 note 2} The ΠΑ are in the border. For ᾿Αντιπᾶς cf. I.G. iii. 1160Google Scholarb, I. 2, and the notes on -ᾶς names in Nos. 23, 31 above. For Φουνδανός (?), Dem. gives in No. 53 ᾿Ιουλιανός, in No. 216 Φουνδῖνος.

^{page 186 note 3} See Pauly-Wissowa, s.n.

^{page 186 note 4} Livy, xlii, 53.

^{page 186 note 5} B.S.A. xvii, pp. 193Google Scholar ff.

^{page 186 note 6} Demitsas, pp. 219 ff; Heuzey, , Mission de Macédoine, p. 287Google Scholar.

^{page 187 note 1} Heuzey, op. cit., pp. 216 ff; Demitsas, p. 173; B.S.A. xvii, p. 201Google Scholar.

^{page 187 note 2} Demitsas, Nos. 207, 208.

^{page 187 note 3} Nos. 35, 36.

^{page 187 note 4} Wace-Thompson, , Prehistoric Thessaly, p. 254Google Scholar, 2.

^{page 187 note 5} This does not occur in Demitsas' inscriptions, but is known in Thessaly, I.G. ix. 2, 472, 473Google Scholar; or perhaps Μύστας(= Μύστης).

^{page 187 note 6} For her cult in Thessaly see an inscription from Pherae, I.G. ix. 2, 418Google Scholar, and cf. Athenaeus, 109 B.

^{page 187 note 7} Cf. L. and S. s.v.; Epigr. Gr. 853 b, 1. 5; cf. ἐγανώσεν, ibid. 985, l. 3 (= C.I.G. add. 4935 b; note too that in L. and S. these are not identified, the word being attributed under the former reference to γανόω, under the latter to γανάω).

^{page 188 note 1} These apparently joined each other closely, and constituted the whole of the front architrave.

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