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[Lemma] <\/strong>Athens, inside a praefurnium<\/em>. Marble block, now lost, with an incised inscription. It is here reproduced the drawing in CIG<\/em> I 216. The alphabet is \u2018dark blue\u2019. Remarkable letters: eta<\/em> and omega<\/em>, for the long vowels \/e\u0304\/ and \/o\u0304\/; omikron<\/em> for the short vowel \/o\/ and the closed long vowel \/o\u0304\/ (\u1f18\u03c1\u03c5\u03be\u03b9\u03bc\u1f71\u03c7o\u0304<\/strong>); grid shaped sign for xi<\/em>; cross shaped sign for khi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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[Period]<\/strong> 450\u2013400 BC (last quarter; surely before 403\/2 BC, according to Amandry, see the comment).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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[\u1f18]\u03c1\u0323\u03c5\u0323\u03be\u1f77\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f18\u03c1\u03c5\u03be\u03b9\u03bc\u1f71\u03c7o\u0304
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\n\u03a0\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd\u1f77\u03b4\u03b9 \u1f18\u03c1\u03b5\u03c7\u03b8\u03b7\u1f77\u03b4\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b1\u1f77\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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[E]ryxias son of Eryximachos
\n<\/em>of the Kydathenaion deme was the choregus
\n<\/em>for the Pandionis and Erechtheis tribes, in the boys\u2019 chorus.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The initial lacuna<\/em>, which concerns the name of the choregos<\/em>, can be easily filled. Eryxias<\/em>, this is the solution, is an anthroponym attested on two other occasions in Athens (see LGPN<\/em> II, s.v.). Also the name of the choregos<\/em>‘s father, Eryximachos<\/em>, is poorly attested (see LGPN<\/em> II, s.v.).
\nThe fact that Eryxias<\/em> is not in the list of the victorious choregoi<\/em> drawn up by the Pandionis<\/em> tribe (IG<\/em> II 553), which fortunately has survived to us (see the entry in the databse) and which records victories in the religious contests starting from the archonship of Eukleides<\/em>, clearly suggests, as noted by Amandry (1977, 168, 182), that the dedication dates to a period before that archon<\/em>, that is to say before 403\/2 BC.
\nAccording to an intriguing but currently unprovable suggestion by Davies (1971, 461-464), the Eryximachos<\/em> known as a relative by marriage of Kabrias<\/em> and as the husband of Polyaratos<\/em>‘s (who was a member of one of the most prominent families in Athens between 420 and 320 BC) second daughter could be a son of the choregos<\/em> Eryxias<\/em>, sharing the same name as his grandfather.
\nWe are dealing with the only surviving dedication that mentions the type of chorus<\/em>, specifically that of boys.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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IG<\/em> II2<\/sup> 3063<\/p>\n<\/div>

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CIG<\/em> I 216; IG<\/em> II 1255; IG<\/em> I3<\/sup> 966, E. REISCH, De musicis Graecorum certaminibus<\/em>. Diss. Wien 1885; D.M. LEWIS, \u2018Notes on Attic Inscriptions (II): XXIII. Who Was Lysistrata?\u2019, BSA<\/em> 50, 1955, 1-36; J.K. DAVIES, Athenian Propertied Families. 600-300 BC<\/em>, Oxford 1971; P. AMANDRY, \u2018Tr\u00e9pieds d’Ath\u00e8nes: II. Tharg\u00e9lies\u2019, BCH<\/em> 101.1, 1977, 165-202; G. IERAN\u00d2, Il ditirambo di Dioniso. <\/em>Le testimonianze antiche<\/em> (Liricorum graecorum quae extant<\/em>, 12), Pisa-Roma 1997.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Athens, Thargelia, choregic dedications, Eryxias, Eryximachos, Kydathenaion, Pandionis tribe, Erechtheis tribe.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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