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the nominative in lines 7, etc., of a, a single TpiarO oKOS seems preferable to a single
oJ3eXurKoq; but if we connect it with the following letters &Eo- we may reasonably
restore [o/,eX] UTKov 8& [,e], meaning " a bundle of spits." 28
After an interval equal in height to one and a half lines we have finally [- -- -]
opev vav[-- -] in rather larger letters, spaced so that seven occupy the space of eight
in the preceding lines, and in the last line we have rog directly below vav. Calculating
that these two lines contained 35 letters each we might restore [- - 14()-
__ 8 ~~~[_ (I7) " ,
1 ,i\E(_
,
oapeOj?v vav[ - - ] and [? ?&- -9C=)--],butI 'AXEXO OpXov]Os [-
have no satisfactory suggestions for the missing letters. If vav- was not a proper
name it may have been a common noun like vav [lreyoZS]. In normal circumstances
this would seem to imply an unlikely transaction, but it does not seem impossible that
in the final months of the Peloponnesian War there was an urgent demand for metal
objects, of bronze and iron, from the builders in the dockyards. Moreover, the restoration
vav [ireyos eK Tor vEopio], for which compare I.G., P2, 74, line 31 ([hot vavir] Eyol
hot EK TO VEOptO), would suitably fill the gap if we assume a vacant space after EK at
the end of line 10.
In studying the names of the Neokoroi it becomes clear that they were four in
number and that Chaireleos was third of four in lines 1-3 of a, second of four in lines
16-17 of a, and second of four in lines 7-8 of b. The Neokoros from Acharnai was
apparently the same in line 17 of a and in line 8 of b. His predecessors in both instances
had names of equal length and may well have been identical, but whether either
or both of them should be identified with X[ ] of lines 1-2 of a it is impossible
to say. In the light of our study there seems also little doubt that from line 14 of a
onwards the inventory contains accessions dated by the years following Kleokritos
(413/2), without repeating the contents of lines 1-13.
3 (Plate 56). Small fragment of Pentelic marble, broken on all sides and behind,
with an uninscribed space below as though from near the foot of a stele, found on
April 14, 1938, in a context of the second to third century after Christ in a brick
drain south of the Eleusinion (U 22:1).
Height, 0.083 m.; width, 0.033 m.; thickness, 0.024 m.
Height of letters, 0.01 m. (average).
Inv. No. I 5390.
VTOIX.
- craGpuov] v ov [ro ? ]
[ -_____ 1AAAr______
28 I know of no epigraphical parallel for Ufau in this sense; but for the alternative, 8paX/p
(with or without 0/eXiXv) as a handful of spits, cf. M. N. Tod, Numismatic Chronicle, XX, 1960,
p. 1, and the example of o'8eAXcrKwv Sapx/,xa1 (sic) in an inscription from Thespiai quoted by Tod
(ibid., note 5), who also notes the association with AX,I3TSe.