Votive Dedication of the Spartans for the Battle of Tanagra

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_7105
dc.title	Votive Dedication of the Spartans for the Battle of Tanagra
dc.contributor.author	Caroni Raffaella
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/axon/2021/2/dedica-votiva-degli-spartani-per-la-battaglia-di-t/
dc.description.abstract	Three fragments of a marble stele recomposed and integrated by K. Purgold in 1881 thanks to the Periegesis of Pausanias (5.10.4). It is an inscription of six lines. The first four lines, reported by Pausanias, form an epigram related to a gilded bronze shield placed on the eastern pediment of the temple of Olympian Zeus and dedicated by the Spartans for the victory in the battle of Tanagra (457 BC) over the Athenians and their allies. The last two lines, not recorded in the Periegesis, were to be in prose, and probably contained a list of Spartan allies. The inscription uses the archaic alphabet of Corinth that is evolving in the fifth century BC.
dc.relation.ispartof	Axon
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 5 \| Issue 2 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-10
dc.dateAccepted	2021-10-27
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-08-05
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2532-6848
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Axon/2532-6848/2021/02/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Battle of Tanagra
dc.subject	Battle of Tanagra
dc.subject	Epigram
dc.subject	Epigram
dc.subject	Olympia
dc.subject	Olympia
dc.subject	Votive dedication
dc.subject	Votive dedication

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Raffaella Caroni Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

Three fragments of a marble stele recomposed and integrated by K. Purgold in 1881 thanks to the Periegesis of Pausanias (5.10.4). It is an inscription of six lines. The first four lines, reported by Pausanias, form an epigram related to a gilded bronze shield placed on the eastern pediment of the temple of Olympian Zeus and dedicated by the Spartans for the victory in the battle of Tanagra (457 BC) over the Athenians and their allies. The last two lines, not recorded in the Periegesis, were to be in prose, and probably contained a list of Spartan allies. The inscription uses the archaic alphabet of Corinth that is evolving in the fifth century BC.

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Dec. 10, 2021

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Oct. 27, 2021

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Aug. 5, 2021

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Keywords: Battle of Tanagra • Olympia • Votive dedication • Epigram

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