NOTES ON THE PYTHAÏS INSCRIPTIONS

{FD nos. 3-56)

The present article is a sequel to the author's "Notes on the Inscriptions of the Pythaïs of 98/7 B.C.," which appeared in BCH 93 (1969), p. 371-395.1 It is a pleasure to acknowledge again the kind aid of Professor G. Daux and of Miss Yvonne Nikopoulou who initially made it possible to work on the inscriptions at Delphi.2

Pythaïs of Timarchos (138/7)

FD no. 7.

Colin, Culte, p. 41, no. 2 (facsimile drawing p. 42)

— BCH 30, p. 194, no. 2 (facsimile drawing p. 195) Pomtow 696 A Photograph : FD, pi. II 2

Col. I, line 9. The initial letters of the patronymic appear above the break; the brackets may be removed.

Abbreviations

Boëthius A. Boëthius, Die Pythais (Uppsala, 1918).

Colin, Culte G. Colin, Le Culte d'Apollon Pythien à Athènes (Paris, 1905).

Daux G. Daux, Delphes au IIe et au Ie1 Siècle (Paris, 1936).

FD G. Colin, Fouilles de Delphes III, fascicule 2 (Paris, 1909-1913).

Klaffenbach G. Klaffenbach, Symbolae ad Historiam Collegiorum Artiflcum Bacchiorum (Berlin, 1914).

NPA J. Sundwall, Nachtrâge zur Prosopographia Attica (Helsingfors, 1910).

PA J. Kirchner, Prosopographia Attica (Berlin, 1901, 1903).

Pomtow H. Pomtow in the third edition of G. Dittenberger, Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum (1917).

(1) For new texts of the inscriptions of the Pythaïs of Argeios (98/7) see now my The Lettering of an Athenian Mason, Hesperia Suppl. 15 (Winter 1974/5). These are inscriptions numbered 2, 6, 10, 16, 17, 26, 31, 45, and 48 in FD. In the present article references to these texts will be to the line numbers of the new editions in Hesperia Suppl. 15.

(2) Thanks are also due to S. Dow, who read an early draft of this; to E. Vanderpool, who gave valuable assistance in Athens; and to the Greek authorities at Delphi, who granted me every courtesy during the summer of 1969. Work on this article has been aided in part by grants from the Ford Foundation and from the American Council of Learned Societies.