Inscriptions of Elaea and Lebedus

Year 1965, Volume: 29 Issue: 116, 585 - 598, 20.10.1965

George Ewart Bean

Abstract

The existence of the following inscriptions was brought to my knowledge by İbrahim Gürcan of Kazıkbağları, a hamlet on the site of ancient Elaea in Aeolis. At a house in a field on the site of Elaea, said to have been found on the acropolis hill of the city. When I visited the house in October 1964 the stone had recently been buried under the new season's tobacco crop and was quite inaccessible; for the following text and other details I am therefore indebted to a copy previously taken by Ibrahim Gürcan. For a villager's work the copy is unusually good, and the writing is evidently well preserved. I have tacitly corrected the small and obvious errors of the copy; at one point only is it seriously defective. The stone is said to be 0.52 m. broad and 0.26 m. "thick" (ie., probably, high); height of letters 1 cm.

Keywords

Inscriptions, Elaea, Lebedus, Kazıkbağları, Athena Temple, Exetestai, Demostratos