Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Volume N . 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...more rare than those in which all the terms are inside. Terms outside are found mostly in the public and, consequently, dated inscriptions. They seem to begin about 150 B. c, are rare in the SA class, more frequent among the?A and ZA classes, but are wholly lacking, later, in the 2 A and C classes; although one instance occurs among the dated crowns as late as about 100 A. D. Most of these terms outside of the crown belong to Attic ephebic inscriptions. A count of the whole Table shows that there are 182 instances of a single term inclosed in the wreath; or, to represent the number of terms inside and outside of the wreath by numbers and their position within or without by brackets, there are 182 instances of 1, 61 of 2, 12 of 3, 15 of 11, 5 of 12, and 6 of 2 1. In respect to the kind of term found outside, the following may be stated. The receiver when present is never outside the wreath; the cause is rarely outside (7 cases); but the giver somewhat more often (19 cases). Crowns that have but one term occur as often in the earliest as in the latest periods. Most of them are private inscriptions, and the mortuary crowns from Smyrna and the Cyrenaica constitute a large part. Many of the earliest crowns that are at present known are not explained by even a single term. From this, the first step of advance was naturally the insertion of one term, the name of the giver. The latest crowns also contain only a single term; but with the difference that this term is not restricted to the name of the giver, but in many instances stands for the receiver. The occurrence of two terms is, generally speaking, contemporaneous with that of three terms, and often both cases are found on the same stone. They occur chiefly in Attic ephebic inscriptions; and, like the cases whe...