Τεκμήρια
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity (GR) |
| ISSN | 1106-661X / 1791-7573 |
| OpenAlex | S4210192701 |
| MAG | 4210192701 |
| Website | http://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/tekmiria/index |
| Total publications | 56 |
| Coverage period | 1995 - 2026 |
| Country | GR |
| Access | Open Access |
| Cited by | 39 |
| Impact factor | 0.061 |
| h-index | 3 |
| i10-index | 1 |
This journal focuses on history and the theory of historiography. While social and cultural history is a related area, this journal's scope is broader, placing it as a cognate humanities venue with regular but not central anthropological intersection
Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Ancient Near East History · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought
Prominence of Non-Athenians in Eleusinian Inscriptions
This article assesses the prominence of non-Athenians in Eleusinian epigraphy from the sixth century BC to the third century AD, proposing that such an investigation enables a deeper understanding of non-Athenians’ relationship with religious practices relating to Eleusinian Demeter and Kore while elucidating the contexts in which non-Athenians came to feature in epigraphic narratives. By examining extant inscriptions relating to non-Athenians fr…
Identities and Onomastics of Enslaved Persons in the Classical Period
Until recently, it was widely accepted that slaves in the classical Greek world were bearers of stereotypical ethnic or foreign names that marked them as outsiders, reflecting an ideology that differentiated citizens from slaves. Recent studies have shown that ethnic and foreign names account for only a minority of recorded slave names, and that many enslaved persons shared names with citizens. This article asks whether the Athenian model applies…
A New Honorific Inscription for Sabina from Lyttos
The present article publishes a new honorific inscription for Sabina, wife of Hadrian, from the Cretan city of Lyttos. The text of the fragmentary statue base, inscribed in the years just before or during the 120s A.D. and found in the Sebasteion during the 2024 season of the Lyktos Archaeological Project, is only partially preserved. Nevertheless, it reveals unusual features in Lyttian honorific practice, including the sequence of Hadrian's titl…
Ἁδριανὸς ἀνέθηκε
An intriguing inscription bearing the words Ἁδριανὸς ἀνέθηκε (Hadrian dedicated) appears in Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) and is the only example in the Greek world of this specific formula. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the inscription has been misattributed to an island, but our research reveals that it originated from a village near Tegea in Arcadia. Ancient literary sources and epigraphy confirm Hadrian's active presence in Arcadia, where he…
Honorands and Slave-owners
This article is a study of a single block of marble from the West Lokrian polis of Chaleion, which hosts three separate inscriptions (IG IX 12 3, 721a-c): a dedication, a proxeny decree and a manumission by sale to Apollo. I first provide an overview of the history of the stone, as well as the dates, content and context of each inscription. I then propose that the homonymity between Kleogenes of Aigion, the recipient of proxenia in text b, and th…
Obituary
In Memoriam: Kalliope Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou (1959-2024) We remember Dr. Kalliope Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou, a long-time member of the Editorial Committee of Τεκμήρια, who passed away on January 6, 2024. Dr. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou was a researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, specializing in the epigraphy and history of Roman-Byzantine Palestine and Arabia. Her scholarly work on Greek inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi and the …
Épitaphe LSAG2 436-437 n° 3a de Gardiki Phthiotidos au pays des Ainianes
In the second edition of the Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, published in 1990, there was an epitaph in the Thessalian dialect whose transcription was preserved in the archives of the eminent English epigraphist L. H. Jeffery, along with a facsimile of the text and a provenance listed as "Phthiotis." It was not until 2007, thanks to the presentation made by A. Matthaiou at the colloquium organized by the University of Thessaly in Volos in honor …
Θησαυρός Σκουριές Χαλκιδικής/2012
This article presents a hoard of 12 bronze coins that was discovered during archaeological excavation at the site of "Skouries" in NE Chalcidice. The hoard contains one bronze of the Amphaxians, one of the quaestor Gaius Publilius, six of the quaestor Lucius Fulcinnius, three of the city of Pella and one of Amphipolis. The description of the coins is as follows: no. 1: Head of Herakles r. / Club ΑΜΦΑ-ΞΙΩΝ, all in laurel wreath; nos. 2-7: Head of …
Der König kehrt zurück? Ein historischer Deutungsversuch der Alexanderinschrift aus Philippi (SEG 46, 787)
The arbitration of a border dispute between the inhabitants of Philippi and Thracians by Alexander the Great (SEG 46, 787) is an exceptional, albeit controversial, historical document. A particularly influential interpretation by M. Hatzopoulos, based on substantial additions to the highly fragmentary text, dates the inscription to 330 BC and puts forward the hypothesis that the inscription provides unique evidence of Alexander's intention to ret…
Earliest χρηστιανοί of Messene and Their Third- and Fourth-century Funerary Monuments
This article presents and analyzes a newly studied inscription from ancient Messene, found on an architectural block originating from a Roman funerary monument (Monument M) located extra muros near the stadium-gymnasium complex. The brief text, reading Διομή|δης | χρηστιανός, identifies a previously unknown early Christian resident of the city. Analysis of the inscription's paleography, simple nominative formula, and archaeological context sugges…
This Must be the Place
In this article I aim to clarify how specific cult sites emerged in southern Boiotia by employing a holistic approach, combining the phenomenological investigations favoured by the recent Spatial and Sensorial Turn with a functionalist understanding of these locations. Understanding how the natural environment provided the impetus for the deliberations on divine presences at these sites forms the first step; a second layer of analysis considers t…
“Tomb of the Philosophers” in Pella, Macedonia Revisited
This article discusses the new findings on the iconography of the two figural friezes painted in the interior of the “Tomb of the Philosophers”, an early Hellenistic, monumental, built cist grave, situated in the east cemetery of Pella, Macedonia. A new technical investigation of the tomb’s wall paintings has allowed the revision of older readings of the two friezes. In the lower, main figural frieze new observations pertain to figure characteriz…
Έργα και ημέρες ενός διαβόητου συκοφάντη (;) στην Αθήνα του 4ου αι. π.Χ
Theocrines was a well-known sycophant who often brought false charges against his fellow citizens in the hope of profiting financially. This is what Epichares asserts in his oration Against Theocrines, delivered ca. 343-338 BCE, in order to avenge his father. Theocrines had earlier charged and successfully prosecuted Epichares' father for proposing an illegal decree. This led Epichares to bring a denunciation against Theocrines, claiming that his…
Ionic Art and Script in Archaic Macedonia
It is widely assumed that Macedonia in the late Archaic period was under East Greek influence. This view was formed decades ago, based on scant evidence, but has since been established through repetition and persists despite the growing number of reported and published finds that indicate otherwise. In this paper I intend to challenge this opinio communis and to reframe the issue of Ionic influence in archaic Macedonia within the wider Northern A…
Cultes et sanctuaires de Crannon
This article presents a synthesis of what literary, epigraphic, archaeological, and numismatic sources reveal about the cults and sanctuaries of ancient Krannon. What myths and legends are associated with the city’s foundation and history? Which deities were definitively or possibly worshipped there? Do any archaeological remains of sanctuaries exist within the city or its territory? And finally, can we identify Krannon’s patron deity? While many…
Deconstructing a Prussian Myth
This article analyzes the clauses of the Athenian Standards Decree, which has long been interpreted as banning allied cities from minting their own coinage. It interprets the Standards Decree not as a sign of Athenian imperialism, as previously thought, but as a technical financial measure aimed at streamlining tax collection within the empire. It examines evidence from mints, hoards, and Athenian financial documents that cast doubt on this tradi…
Ἐθνη Θρᾳκῶν στὴ Θράκη τοῦ Αἰγαίου κατὰ τοὺς ἑλληνιστικοὺς καὶ ρωμαϊκοὺς χρόνους IΙ. Σαπαῖοι καὶ Σαπαϊκή
Of two articles devoted to the Thracian tribes attested in Aegean Thrace during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the second, published here, focuses on the tribe of the Sapaioi (the first, under the title «Ἔθνη Θρᾳκῶν στὴ Θράκη τοῦ Αἰγαίου κατὰ τοὺς ἑλληνιστικοὺς καὶ ρωμαϊκοὺς χρόνους, Ι. Κορπίλοι καὶ Κορπιλική», devoted to the Corpiloi, was published in Τεκμήρια 15 [2019-2020] 187-226). Once again, the relevant testimonia are mainly literary, …
Integrating Numismatic Evidence into the Study of the Urban Landscape of Paphos. From Palaepaphos to Nea Paphos with the Last King
The discovery of a bronze coin, in the context of controlled excavations conducted by the Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project (PULP) on the plateau of Palaepaphos-Hadjiabdoullah since 2009, presented the opportunity for a challenging collaborative dialogue on the integration of numismatic discoveries, as well as relevant inscriptions and literary sources, with the current results of the landscape analysis and the excavations that have contributed…
Ozolian Locris in Roman Times
Pausanias, arriving at Amphissa shortly after AD 170, met with Aitolian residents -instead of Locrians- who wanted to renounce the Locrian past of the city. These Aitolians, according to him, had refused to move to Patras or Nicopolis, when Augustus divided Aitolia between the two new colonies. Pausanias also visited Myania, Chaleion and Naupactos and mentions that the rest of the Ozolian Locris, except Amphissa, was “under the control” of the Gr…
Gladiatorial Spectacles in Crete
This article examines the epigraphic and archaeological evidence attesting the staging of gladiatorial and associated spectacles in Roman Crete. The evidence indicates shows held in the capital of the province, Gortyn; in the colony of Knossos, in Hierapytna, and possibly in Chersonesos and Kissamos. Some of the spectacles that took place in Gortyn were extraordinary and very costly, including beast fights, public executions and gladiatorial comb…
New Names, Status and Family Sentiment in Multi-ethnic Cappadocia
This article offers an edition of 19 Greek inscriptions from the Museum of Malatya (ancient Melitene, Cappadocia), among them 13 previously-unpublished texts including two new metrical inscriptions. With the exception of the one in the Appendix, these texts are funerary, should be dated to the period c. 150-250/300 AD, and take the form of family members dedicating funerary monuments in commemoration of deceased relatives. They offer significant …
Herakles and Herakles Kynagidas in Magnesia and Perrhaibia
Herakles was jointly perceived in Thessaly and Macedonia as the legendary progenitor and patron deity of the Macedonian royal oikos and Thessalian elite ruling families, while he was worshipped at many social levels and contexts. This paper discusses the nature and role of Herakles’ cult, also in his capacity as Kynagidas, in the sacred landscape and socio-political milieu of the east and north Thessalian perioikoi from the fourth to the second c…
Archival Dockets in Greek Inscriptions
In addition to the documents that they disseminate, inscriptions sometimes contain artefacts of archival processes or “dockets”. Some three dozen examples are collected in the Catalogue, almost all of which accompany documents that originate outside the city where they are displayed. The article discusses what dockets imply about civic archives and what motivated their inclusion
Roman Sarcophagus Depicting Scylla in the Çanakkale Troia Museum
This article discusses an inscribed sarcophagus that originates from Nikaia and is now on display in the Çanakkale Troia Museum. The front is divided into three framed panels. Each short end has a single frame, and both are decorated with a gorgoneion. On the front, pantomime masks occupy the left and right frames while the middle one is embellished with a bust depicting a young woman. This discussion focuses mainly on the identification of the r…
Ο «θησαυρός» Πέλλα/2011. Παρατηρήσεις στη νομισματοκοπία των διοικητικο-πολιτικών ενοτήτων της Μακεδονίας του 2ου αι. π.Χ
This article presents a small hoard of nine bronze coins that was discovered during excavations in room 29 of the east wing of the Agora of Pella, buried below a clay floor of the Hellenistic period. It contains one bronze coin in the name of the Amphaxians, three in the name of the Macedonians Amphaxians, four in the name of the Macedonians Botteatai, and one in the name of the Macedonians. Their description is the following (see p. 205, images …
The design of the “archive wall” at Aphrodisias
The epigraphic display carved on the north wall of the stage building of Aphrodisias’ theatre in the 3rd century CE, commonly referred to as the “archive wall”, is usually assumed to have been designed based on the chronology of the documents it includes. This paper argues instead in favor of a centripetal design, which placed in the center of the composition the most important documents in terms of their honorific value for Aphrodisias and its c…
Victoria Augusta on Macedonian coins. Remarks on dating and interpretation
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The Authenticity of the Document at Andocides On the Mysteries 95-98
This essays studies the document inserted into the text of Andocides' speech On the Mysteries (96-98) and shows that it is not a genuine copy of the decree of Demophantus from an analysis of its contents and a comparison with the formulas and language of decrees from the late fifth and fourth centuries BCE preserved on stone. The final part of the essay analyzes the historical context of the decree of Demophantus and shows that it belongs in the …
The Athenian Standards Decree
The discovery and publication in 2003 of a second fragment from Aphytis (Chalkidike) of the Athenian Standards Decree imposed a reconsideration of its date, scope and relations to the other copies of the same document respectively located in Siphnos, Smyrna, Cos, Odessa and Hamaxitos. The restored, thanks to the joining of its two fragments, Aphytis copy, now forty lines long, emerges as the most significant that we possess. It is the longest and…
Die Niederlassung römischer Geschäftsleute in der Peloponnes
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Major Events in the Recent Past in Assembly Speeches and the Authenticity of [Andocides] On the Peace
This paper begins by demonstrating that speakers in the Assembly did not misrepresent major events in recent history. An examination of Demosthenes’ speeches to the Assembly shows that his statements about recent events are accurate but are usually brief. This is true for speeches to the Assembly found in Thucydides and Xennophon. The main part of the essay shows that the speech On the Peace attributed to Andocides makes major mistakes about rece…
Comprendre la loi ephebarchique d’Amphipolis
The author of the present article reviews the objections that have been raised to Calliope Lazaridou’s and his own interpretation of the recently published ephebarchical law from Amphipolis. To this end he exposes the overall plan of this legal document, devoting a special section to two of its articles which present a problem. He then examines the objections that have been raised a) against the identity of the two existing copies, b) against the…
The Composition of the Peloponnesian Elites in the Roman period and the Evolution of their Resistance and Approach to the Roman Rulers
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Kretische Inschriften
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Πόλεις and Πολιτεῖαι in upper Macedonia under the Principate
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Die Niederlassung römischer Geschäftsleute in der Peloponnes
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Le décret de Thessalonique pour Parnassos. L'évergète et la dépense pour sa statue à la basse époque hellénistique
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Victoria Augusta on Macedonian coins. Remarks on dating and interpretation
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The Prytaneion Treasure and the Paradox of the Delian Inventories
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Quaestiones Macedonicae
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A New Inscription from Chaironeia and the Chronology of Slave-Dedication
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The Composition of the Peloponnesian Elites in the Roman period and the Evolution of their Resistance and Approach to the Roman Rulers
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A list of sales from Mieza and the constitution of extensive landed properties in the Central Macedonian plain
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Frequent Names and Local History
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Les Carthaginois dans la Bibliothèque Historique de Diodore de Sicile
The Carthaginians in the Library of Diodorus Siculus are often depicted as hostile barbarians. The author selects, combines and recycles ancient stereotypes about barbarians, like Phoenicians and Persians, in order to create new repulsive clichés of Carthaginians as enemies of all the Greeks, but the historical facts given by Diodorus enable the modern reader to use the Library as a quite reliable historical source even when he sets about the tas…
Innovation or Tradition? Succession to the Kingship in Temenid Macedonia
This article attempts to show that the free designation of the successor to the throne by Ptolemy I and Seleukos I, and the association in power of the successor during the last years of the king’s reign, was not an innovation of the age of the Diadochi but an old Macedonian practice. Using IG II/III2 102, the treaty between Athens, Amyntas II and his son Alexander as a starting point, this work collects all the evidence for the designation of th…
The Authenticity of the Document at Andocides On the Mysteries 95-98
This essays studies the document inserted into the text of Andocides' speech On the Mysteries (96-98) and shows that it is not a genuine copy of the decree of Demophantus from an analysis of its contents and a comparison with the formulas and language of decrees from the late fifth and fourth centuries BCE preserved on stone. The final part of the essay analyzes the historical context of the decree of Demophantus and shows that it belongs in the …
Isiac Cults, Civic Priesthood and Social Elite in Hellenistic Demetrias (Thessaly)
In 2nd cent. BC, following the decline of the Macedonian power and the abandonment of the baseilion of Demetrias by its royal masters, there were many significant sociopolitical changes that took place in the region, such as the arrival of the Romans, the reorganization of local communities after the creation of the Magnesian Koinon, as well as the reconstruction of the civic and sacred space of Demetrias. Also, royal euergetism towards the city …
The design of the “archive wall” at Aphrodisias
The epigraphic display carved on the north wall of the stage building of Aphrodisias’ theatre in the 3rd century CE, commonly referred to as the “archive wall”, is usually assumed to have been designed based on the chronology of the documents it includes. This paper argues instead in favor of a centripetal design, which placed in the center of the composition the most important documents in terms of their honorific value for Aphrodisias and its c…
The Athenian Standards Decree
The discovery and publication in 2003 of a second fragment from Aphytis (Chalkidike) of the Athenian Standards Decree imposed a reconsideration of its date, scope and relations to the other copies of the same document respectively located in Siphnos, Smyrna, Cos, Odessa and Hamaxitos. The restored, thanks to the joining of its two fragments, Aphytis copy, now forty lines long, emerges as the most significant that we possess. It is the longest and…
Σύντροφος
Σύντροφος is a term familiar to epigraphists who study Greek inscriptions of the Roman period, especially from Asia Minor, and also to epigraphists and historians of the Hellenistic period. In the former case the term applies to actual foster brothers, to wit children who have been reared together, but also to persons engaged in other forms of professional or affective relationships. Students of the Hellenistic period, on the other hand, are in d…
Comprendre la loi ephebarchique d’Amphipolis
The author of the present article reviews the objections that have been raised to Calliope Lazaridou’s and his own interpretation of the recently published ephebarchical law from Amphipolis. To this end he exposes the overall plan of this legal document, devoting a special section to two of its articles which present a problem. He then examines the objections that have been raised a) against the identity of the two existing copies, b) against the…
Proskynēsis
Greek ambassadors who were granted an audience before the Persian King were required to observe a certain form of court ritual. Although the Persian proper name for this ritual has since been lost to us, the Greeks called this act of homage proskynēsis; a term normally understood to refer to the act of “falling down” and prostrating oneself before the king. At the same time, the Greeks employed a gesture also called proskynēsis, which was perform…
A Note on the history of Hellenistic Megara
This paper presents a proposal for the date of the Antigonid military presence in Aegosthena near Megara, which is known only by a Megarian honorary decree for Boiotian Zoilos, the royal commander of the garrison (IG VII 1). The named king Demetrios in the inscription could be Poliorketes (306-284 BC) or his grandson, Demetrios II (239-229 BC). All the available evidences (philological, prosopographical, letters a.o.) are examined and the conclus…
Inscriptions from Abdera and Maroneia
The present article is concerned with three inscriptions from the Greek citiesof Abdera and Maroneia in coastal Thrace. Nos. 1 (Abdera) and 2 (Maroneia) were first published in the 2004 corpus of the inscriptions of Aegean Thrace (I.Thrac.Aeg. E1 and E181α), and improved texts of both are offered here; no.3 (Maroneia) is new. The first text is a fragmentary early-fifth century law from Abdera, concerned with upper and lower ages of eligibility fo…
A New Look at an Inscribed Ceramic Medallion with Gladiators (Equites) from the Region of Parthicopolis in the Roman Province of Macedonia
This paper reconsiders a ceramic medallion found near the village of Palat on the right bank of the Strymon River, ca. 8 km northwest of the town of Sandanski in southwest Bulgaria. The cluster of Roman settlements near the village of Palat may have belonged to the territory of Parthicopolis (mod. Sandanski), which fell under the jurisdiction of Macedonia Prima. The medallion illustrates a gladiatorial combat between two equites, who are identifi…
Heirloom or Antique? Import or Imitation? Objects with Fictive “Biographies” in Early Iron Age Knossos
During the Early Iron Age, Knossos was one of the most important cities of the Aegean. In addition to objects from elsewhere in the Aegean, a wide range of Cypriot, Phoenician and North Syrian imports has been discovered in the Early Iron Age Knossian cemeteries. In certain cases, these grave goods predate their funerary context by a century. This paper examines the stylistic and contextual dating of these imports, in an attempt to associate, fro…
Une nouvelle fête macédonienne dans une inscription de Kibyra
An early second century BC fragmentary inscription from Kibyra in honour of a local athlete mentions among others two victories won at festivals whichwere presided by “king Philip”, who can be no other than Philip V. The first festival was the Erotideia at a city the name of which has been lost. The second one was the Herakleia at a city in Macedonia, the name of which is not preserved. The author of the present article argues that the rst city w…