STESAGORAS II: ADDENDUM

HENRY R. IMMERWAHR
Universityof North Carolina

In my paper in TAPA Io3 (1972) I made reference to a fragmentary

ostrakonfound in the Athenian Agora that may have the name Stesa-
goras on it.' I was under the impressionthat this ostrakonwas un-
published, but ProfessorEugene Vanderpool, by letter, has called to
my attentionthat the ostrakonin questionis Agora P 6208, which was
published by him, without restoration, in I949.2 Vanderpool dates it,
in his publication, to the first half of the fifth century on the basis of
the letter forms.
The ostrakonis fragmentaryand containsthe ends of two names in
two lines. The first line has the letters ]ov, the second, ]ayopas. In
his original publicationVanderpool read the last letter as "an incom-
plete sigma which the writer startedto add, thinking of the nominative
form, then left unfinishedrealizing he wanted the genitive." In his
letter, however, he rightly points out that the last letter is a retrograde
sigma marredby some scratches. The second name is thus also in the
nominative, and patronymicsin the nominative are not unknown on
ostraka.
As for the possiblerestoration[ZL'ro]ayopas, it was suggested to me
both by Vanderpooland A. E. Raubitschek. Since we cannot restore
the firstname with confidence,this is clearlyno more than a possibility
among others. This Stesagorascannotbe identifiedwith StesagorasII,
who had no children,3but he might be StesagorasIII, born c. 540 and

"Stesagoras II," TAPA I03 (1972) I85 note 12.

2E. Vanderpool, "Some Ostraka from the Athenian Agora," Commemorative
Studies in Honor of TheodoreLeslie Sheer (Hesperia Supplement 8, 1949) 404 No. 21 and
pi. 59, 2I.
3 Herodotus6.38.
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kalosin the decade520-IO,4especiallyif we put his son'sostrakonnot

too early in the fifth century. Shouldwe resistthe temptationof
creatinga fifth-century KimonStesagorou? Thissuggestionwasmade
to me by Raubitschek,who in a letter calls the restoration"epi-
graphicallypossible,"as indeedit is.
4 "Stesagoras II" (above, note I) I85-86.