Notes on Attic Decrees

Recent articles about the earliest Attic decree have brought new restorations and new interpretations to the text of the famous inscription which deals with affairs on the island of Salamis. A short discussion by Wilhelm1 has given a new text of the first two and one-half lines and has shown, in my opinion, that the versions of this document which appear in the Corpus and in Tod's Greek Historical Inscriptions (no. 11) cannot be correct in either form or meaning. Kahrstedt' also has raised compelling objections against the Corpus text, but in the matter of interpretation he has come to conclusions quite the opposite of those set forth by Wilhelm, and which Wilhelm makes no attempt to refute. The question at issue was whether the decree refers to the original inhabitants of the island of Salamis (restoring OiKovTaq at the end of line 1) or to Athenian klerouchs resident on Salamis (restoring KXEPO'Xo at the end of line 1). Wilhelm's suggested wording for the opening clause is as follows: 'E8oXrEV rot 8E,2lOt [rOsg E Sa]Xajz[Ztvt oLKOVTaa] OtKEJ-' EL SLa.LVt [Ka' 'TE] Xv, [xoivv 'AOEvaotl]

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  Open Access•Marina Yeroulanou•The Annual of the British School…•1998

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