This department of AIO publishes Attic Inscriptions inward UK Collections (AIUK). Starting inward 2018, each book of AIUK volition comprise the Attic inscriptions inward a dissimilar UK collection. The largest collection, inward the British Museum, volition last published inward split parts for each category of inscription. To accompany these novel scholarly editions, to a greater extent than lightly annotated translations of the inscriptions volition last published on the AIO original site, together amongst Greek texts in addition to images.
AIUK 6 publishes a novel edition of the inscribed fourth-century Attic funerary monument amongst relief inward the collection of the Leeds City Museum in addition to narrates the sequence of events yesteryear which it in addition to a issue of other antiquities were acquired yesteryear ii immature Yorkshiremen visiting Hellenic Republic on the “Grand Tour” inward 1817, in addition to were eventually donated to the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical in addition to Literary Society inward 1863. An Appendix discusses some other inscribed funerary monument inward the collection, currently identified every bit Attic inward near criterion epigraphical reference works, exactly genuinely from the isle of Rheneia yesteryear Delos.
AIUK 5 publishes novel editions of the ii Attic inscriptions at Lyme Park, Cheshire, both of them funerary monuments amongst relief sculpture dating from the 4th century BC. In add-on to analysis of the monuments inward their ancient context, the book explores the engaging history of their acquisition inward Athens inward 1811 or 1812 yesteryear Thomas Legh in addition to their display every bit business office of his blueprint for the Library of Lyme Park. AIUK 5 too discusses briefly the intriguing uninscribed slice of fourth-century Athenian sculpture depicting a seated human being amongst comic masks, which is displayed inward the same room.
This, the 3rd book of AIUK, publishes novel editions of the nine Attic inscriptions inward the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, vii of which are on display inward the Museum’s Greek in addition to Roman galleries. In add-on to ii Assembly decrees (1, 2), the collection contains the “Sandwich marble”, an of import laid upwardly of accounts of the sanctuary of Apollo on Delos (3). It too includes vi inscribed Attic funerary monuments (4-9), in addition to the discussions of the private monuments are preceded yesteryear a full general introduction to the major styles of private Attic funerary monument represented inward the collection. The book contains a issue of novel readings in addition to fresh observations on near of the inscriptions discussed.
This minute book of AIUK contains the xv Attic inscriptions inward the collection of the British School at Athens, near of which in i lawsuit belonged to the nineteenth-century philhellene, historian of modern Hellenic Republic in addition to resident of Athens, George Finlay. Though pocket-size inward size, the collection offers a rich diverseness of insights into the life of our best documented ancient Greek metropolis betwixt the 5th century BC in addition to the 3rd century AD. It too offers representative examples of 3 major genres of Attic inscription: ii Assembly decrees (1, 2); v dedications or statue bases (3, 4, 5, 6, 7); in addition to vii funerary monuments (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15); inward add-on to a listing of names, possibly of donors, on a wall block (8). Three of the Attic funerary monuments, 9, 10 in addition to 14, are on permanent display inward the BSA entrance hall, in addition to the remaining inscriptions are kept inward the School’s museum collection.
This, the initiative book of AIUK, publishes the of import hellenistic inscription inward Petworth House. Dating to 108/7 BC it honours the maidens who worked on the robe (peplos) for the statue of Athena. Another little fragment of the same inscription is inward the Epigraphical Museum, Athens. It is i of 3 like inscriptions which engagement to some the same decade in addition to appear to reverberate a revival or reform of the arrangements for making the peplos, which was carried inward procession in addition to presented to the goddess at the Panathenaia festival. The names of the maidens are listed inward a “roll of honour” at the bottom of the inscription. This in addition to the lists of maidens inward the other ii inscriptions provide us amongst much of our data on the woman mortal members of elite Athenian families at this period.
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