JOHN H. KROLL 379
DIKASTS' PINAKIA FROM THE FAUVEL COLLECTION
Through the kindness of several scholars (1), it has recently come to my attention that a page among the Leake papers in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, contains an unpublished transcription of the four bronze allotment pinakia (2) collected by L. F. S. Fauvel in the early years of the 19th century. This transcription is of particular importance for improving the notoriously imperfect record of two pinakia that have long been lost, but it also affords a convenient occasion for a more general note on the Fauvel pinakia, which have the historical distinction of comprising the earliest collection of such objects.
The collection
In what is the first published account of a dikast's pinakion (letter to Mongez, dated 11 November 1806, Magasin Encyclopédique, 1807, Vol. Ill, pp. 136-139), Fauvel wrote from Athens:
« Parmi les objets trouvés soit à Phalère, soit à Pirée (3), je dois ajouter
(1) B. D. Meritt first reported the pertinent Leake notes to Ε. Vanderpool, who, with M. J. Price, made them known to me. In addition, this paper owes much to the interest and criticisms of G. W. J. Eliot. S. Dow, W. Meyers, R. M. Cook, P. R. Franke, E. Chirol and J. H. C. Kern each helped on specific problems. (2) Athenian dikasts' pinakia: /Gil2 1835-1923, surveyed and brought up to date by S. Dow, «Dikasts' Bronze Pinakia», BCH 87 (1963), pp. 653-687. The present paper stems from a comprehensive study of these objects now in progress. (3) In Fauvel's time Phaleron was generally believed to be situated in the northwest part of the Piraeus peninsula, its acropolis being the hill now recognized as Mounychia. Hence the excavations «soit à Phalère, soit à Pirée» were certainly in the northern Piraeus. The enormous necropolis extending from the northern Piraeus westwards to Aigaleos has produced a vast number of artifacts, including more dikasts' pinakia than any other Athenian cemetery. E. Dodwell, who also found a pinakion in a grave here, gives a full and impressive picture of this necropolis as it appeared in 1805 (Tour through Greece [1819], Vol. I, pp. 430-467). Also, A. Milchhoefer in Curtius-Kaupert, Karlen von Attika (1881-1900), Heft I, pp. 7-8.
