IG XI 4 1065: Arbitration of Dispute between Paros and Naxos
Modern Publication(s): CIG 2265 (Editio princeps); Marshall I; Hicks 4 (Hicks does not describe frg. A); IG XII 5 128; IG XII 5 p.308, add. to no.128; IG XI 4 1065; SEG xiii 444
Brief description: Eretrian arbitration between Paros and Naxos.
Attributes
Inscription Type: Inscribed arbitration
Object Type: Stele
Material: White marble
Original Location: Delos
Provenance: Delos
Date: c.200 BC
Dimensions: H: 0.813 m; W: 0.349 m (Leeds)
Layout: Thirty lines of text
Writing: Inscribed
Condition: This is the lower part (fragment B) of the inscribed arbitration. It is complete at bottom and right-hand; broken at the top and on left (Hicks).
Decoration: None.
Collection
Location: Fragment [B]: Leeds City Museum. In 1890, Hicks notes that this was “let into the wall of the Museum.” (Hicks); the inscription is currently (2014) on display in the Ancient Worlds gallery.
Fragment [A]: ?
Collector(s): Part of a collection purchased by Mr Benjamin Gott and Mr Rawson when travelling from Smyrna through the islands to Athens in 1815. Gott died of a fever at Piraeus, and the marbles then passed to Mr Rawson. They were kept at Rawson’s house in Halifax for several years, during which time six of the inscriptions were copied and sent to Böckh for inclusion in CIG. On Rawson’s death in 1845 or 1846, Mr Rawson’s brother, Mr S. Rawson, sold the marbles to Mr William Gott (brother of B. Gott). W. Gott then passed the marbles to his son, Rev. Dr. John Gott, who presented them with a few exceptions (Nos. 1-6, Hicks) to the Museum at Leeds (Hicks).
Date collected: Collected by Rawson in 1815.
Accession or catalogue number: LEEDM.D.1967.1234
Bibliography
S. L. Ager, Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337-90 B.C. (Berkeley, 1996), No.83.
E. L. Hicks, 'The Collection of Ancient Marbles at Leeds,' JHS 11 (1890), 255-270, no. 4.
J. Marshall, Observations on Certain Greek Inscriptions in the Museum of Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, (1879), no. 1.
The 44th Report of the Council of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 44 (1864), 11-12, 28.
The 59th Report of the Council of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 59 (1879), 13-16.
