In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

38 1. Noted by G. Stamires in the margin of Meritt’s copy of IG but not, so far as I can determine, ever published. There is no EM number listed for it in the files at the Epigraphical Museum in Athens and it is not joined to IG II2 641 or indicated as part of it. Addenda to the Cutter of IG II2 1262 Dates: ca. 320 –ca. 290 For a description of this cutter’s lettering, photographs, and a full list of inscriptions , see ADT 136 –147. This man was one of the major cutters in Athens at the end of the fourth century and beginning of the third. It now appears likely that he was active down to at least the year 290 b.c. ADDENDA TO LIST OF INSCRIPTIONS IG II2 818 The text suggests (I have been able to locate neither the stone nor a squeeze) that this inscription is in reality the upper right part of IG II2 641 and not a separate inscription.1 Agora I 5069 Published below. Agora I 6416 Published below. Eleusis (inv. no. Archon Aristion (ca. 290). ArchDelt 23A unknown) 1968) 1– 6 (⫽ SEG 24 no. 156). THE DATE OF THE ATHENIAN ARCHON ARISTION During a short sojourn in Athens during June 1995, in the archives of the American School of Classical Studies I came across several squeezes of Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C. / 39 2. This discovery came too late to be included in ADT, which was published in September 1995. 3. “Three Inscriptions from Eleusis,” ArchDelt 23A (1968) 1– 6. 4. “Inscriptions d’Athènes et de la Grèce Centrale,” ÉArxaiologikØ ÉEfhmer ¤w (1969) 14 –23 (⫽ Opera Minora Selecta [Amsterdam 1990] VII 720 –729). “L’archonte Aristion est nécessairement non pas un ‘archonte’ du thiase, mais celui de l’État athénien; la formule §pÉ ÉArist¤vnow êrxontow dans un document d’Athènes ne peut s’interpréter autrement” (p. 15). In contrast, J. Pouilloux, “Un nouvel archonte d’Athènes?” ZPE 4 (1969) 1– 6, raised the possibility that the archon might be of the thiasos (p. 3). There are, to my knowledge, no examples of the name of an archon of an association or local organization employed, as here, to date an official’s term in office using §p¤ followed by the simple name and title in the genitive case. I owe thanks to A. P. Matthaiou for help on this point. 5. Vanderpool, “Three Inscriptions from Eleusis,” 3– 4. 6. IG II2 1299 lines 57– 69. an inscription found at Eleusis that I had not previously seen. I recognized the lettering at once as the work of a cutter known to me, viz. the present cutter.2 The squeezes were labeled simply “Eleusis.” A quick search soon revealed that the text had been published for the first time in 1968 by E. Vanderpool.3 The inscription records a decree passed by a thiasos in honor of a certain Paidikos, perhaps treasurer of the group. He receives praise for having protected the interests of his fellow thiasotai; in fact, he is described as having rendered signal service in time of war (di°svise line 2, [po]l°mou ˆntow §n te› x≈rai line 3, diå tÚn pÒlemon line 4). Paidikos served when [A]ristion was archon (line 2). There can be no doubt, as L. Robert rightly saw,4 that he is the eponymous archon of the city of Athens. This inscription thus far remains the sole attestation for the archon Aristion. Vanderpool in his editio princeps concluded that the text belonged to the third century b.c. and certainly was to be dated prior to 225 b.c. Indeed, his first instinct, based on the strict stoichedon order of the inscription and the cruciform shape of phi, was for a date in the first half of the century. However , citing B. D. Meritt’s The Athenian Year (Berkeley 1961), he noted that “the archon list of the first half of the third century is full, and although the order of some of the names is perhaps still subject to change, it would be very hard to find a place for a completely new name.”5 Vanderpool therefore tentatively assigned Aristion to the decade of the 230s, where there were a number of vacancies and uncertainties in the archon list as then constituted by Meritt. That decade also coincided nicely with the Demetrian...

Share