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and line 216 there once stood a notice that the property following had belonged to
Alkibiades, ending the thus very short listing for Phaidros, which begins at line 188.
We might also expect, between the announcement of Alkibiades' ownership and line
214, listings of linen and woolen pillows, each occupying two lines, for terms coupled
by Pollux are usually found in close conjunction on the stone (see for instance, in
Table B, rakia and kerote, chameune parakollos and kline amphikephalos, thyra diapristos
and thyra syndromade). Lines 214 and 215 must then have contained an item
or items interrupting the listing of pillows, for whatever word stood in line 214 was
shorter than proskephalaia by at least four letters; it may be noticed that one item also
separates the pair of terms in Pollux, X, 36, which appear as Stele I, 231 and 233.
If all of these suppositions were correct, we would thus lack but one line of completely
filling the space between line 206 and line 214 of Stele II, as it has been restored, and
we would consider everything listed from line 216 to line 246 as having come from
the household of Alkibiades. However, these conclusions are at best only tentative,
for we know from vase-paintings that any Athenian house would contain a quantity
of pillows of all sorts; they might be expected to turn up among the furnishings of
all the condemned men. There is no way to be sure that the one leather pillow which
happened to have been inscribed on a portion of stone destined to survive was the
same leather pillow which, listed with others as the property of Alkibiades, caught the
eye of Eratosthenes and was reported by Pollux. The household equipment listed at
Stele II, 216 ff., may have belonged to another of the men, most probably Phaidros,
and the proskephalaia skutina which Pollux mentions as Alkibiades' may have been
listed somewhere else entirely-in Stele I, for instance, along with the pillows and
coverlets of lines 217 ff.
The question of Pollux's accuracy has some importance, too, in a consideration of
the relationship between Onomasticon, X, 83, and the pinax items found in Stele VII,
59 ff. Pollux first considers pinakes as plates for food, but he adds that there are also
pinakes which are pictures, cx Kat EV rots A7{ou1Tparo3 E'o-rtv EvpEtv Kat vtvaf TOIKtXOs
aCT opoTqq Kat ivTaW ETepog yEypacqLEvo3. On the stone we find
1Tv[ aKEf
i.t4v aE
yEypaVV1E/ ]E'[vot --
TEp1P o0J,&KpOS
IE7 [paM&vo] X
[irtvag 'IOLKL] os~.
Bethe has surrounded everything in the Pollux text after eipeTv with quotation marks,
as though these words were a direct quotation from the Attic Stelai. If this were
precisely accurate, we would have to conclude either that there were two places in the
Stelai (VII, 59, and another which has vanished) where nearly the same groupings of
pinax items were made, or, with K6hler, that there were two slightly varying versions