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16 IG 13 90 AND MONETARY LEGISLATION A FRAGMENTARY stoichedon inscription in Pentelic marble (IG13 90 = SEG 10.87) that deals (inpart) with coinage and stathma 'weights' has survived. The connections of this enactment with the Coinage Decree have been subjected to so much speculation that it will be necessary here to review in a most cautious spirit the state of our knowledge in order to explore the significance of this document for monetary history. The editio princeps was a wartime publication of Meritt, which I reproduce below.1 The text of IG 13 , which I also supply, has benefitted from the study of the inscription by Stroud.f Given the state ofpreservation and survival of the provisions of the inscription, the conservatism of the text presented by IG 13 is hardly surprising. Meritt pointed out the similarity of the script to the alliance with Perdikkas (IG13 89), then dated to 423/2-hence dating to the known eighth prytany of Aiantis. The datings for IG 13 89 have ranged considerably , with supporters for ca. 436, ca. 423/2, and ca. 416/5, or its date in IG 13 of 417-13(?). 3 Stroud conjectured a date of 440-20, while IG 13 dates ca. 416(?). Meritt restored a line of fifty-two letters. Note 1 B.D.Meritt, "AtticInscriptions of the Fifth Century," Hesperia 14(1945) 117-33, esp. # 11, pp. 119-22. 2 See R.S. Stroud, "Three Attic Decrees," CSCA7 (1974) 279-98, esp. 283-90, for which note SEC 26.13; Mattingly, Klio(1977) 83-100, esp. 84, who pronounced himself convinced by Stroud's corrections of Meritt. 3 H.B. Mattingly, "Athenian Finance in the Peloponnesian War," BCH 92 (1968) 450-85, esp. 472-75 (on the comparison with the treaty with Perdikkas). On pp. 466-67, Mattingly notes a close similarity of lettering with IC 13 467 (= SEG 10.215) dated by IG 13 to 430/29. Eventually, the dossier of inscriptions to be attributed to this stonecutter would also include the assessment decree of 422/ I (IC 13 77); the Eleusinian first-fruits decree (IC 13 78); the proxeny decree for Asteas (IG 13 80: 421/0); regulations for the Hephaisteia (IC 13 82: 421/0); the decree for Oiniades of Skiathos (IC 13 110); the Golden Nikai record (IG13 467: 430/29). For these attributions see M.B. Walbank, "Criteria for the Dating of Fifth-Century Attic Inscriptions," in OPOE 161-69, esp. note 21, pp. 168-69 = AthenianProxenies oftheFifth CenturyB.C. (Toronto and Sarasota 1978) 31-42, esp. note 21, p. 51. See also Mattingly BCH (1970) 142, 147; Mattingly, Coinage andAdministration 71; Mattingly, "Some Fifth-Century Attic Epigraphic Hands," ZPE 83 (1990) 110-19, esp. 110-11. These affinities may have some weight against A.G. Woodhead's suggestion that IG 13 90 belongs among the measures promoted by Perikles in anticipation of hostilities with the Spartans; cf. Woodhead, "Before the Storm," Melanges Helleniques offerts aGeorges Daux (Paris 1974) 375-88, esp. 384-85, but see his later thoughts in Inscriptions: TheDecrees, TheAthenian Agora16, # I7, pp. 22-23. IG 13 90 AND MONETARY LEGISLATION 425 that the prytany of Aiantis is entirely a product of that line length so that. .. 'Axa~]~'V"tl8oC; would be another possibility (as Stroud points out)." Stroud opens the possibility of a much longer line (again, the valid parallel is IG 13 89). Meritt: [-------------------------------- ]1 ~-------------------------------]~ ~---------------------------]~TAQ [--------------------------] r.AI[..]~t:tO[.] 5 [---------------------] ~[... ]EKATE[ ..]AITO [-------------------] C;1t[pu]"tave:t[ac; "to]vci- [-------xaaa[eq>lO}lCX .•.• 14 Naturally, it is mere surmise that the same entrenched fund might be involved here as in the Coinage Decree. Much attention has been focused on Meritt's reading of line 7, despite his tentativeness, because of his dependence on a squeeze and photograph: ... xcxfJcXTte:p Xe:Ae:Ue:~ ho v6~oc; ho K[cx]~~[••~ •• ], for it seemed to establish an allusion to a law famous enough to be known by the name of its proposer. Stroud, however, stated that he clearly saw NOM[.]~ with a vertical stroke allowing either NOMT~ (impossible, one supposes) or NOMIE. A mu or a mishapen nu seems to follow the sigma. In place of Meritt's two lambdas,Stroud saw the bottom of a vertical stroke for the first and the top of an approximately centered vertical for the second. Stroud prints ] v6~~at!-[cx] x[cx]t [.. ~ .. ]. IG 13 prints ... ~MI~HIK[.] l-l-.... That creates an extremely intractable sequence of letters to...

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