II Record of Comic Contests at the Lenaea (C. I. A. Ii. 972, Col. I)
The inscription of which this forms a part consists of two columns, the first containing records of comic contests, the second of tragic contests, at the Lenaea. The date of the contests recorded in the first column has been generally taken to be B.C. 354-2: but Capps (The Dating of some Didascalic Inscriptions, Amer. Journ. of Archaeology, 1900, pp. 74 ff.) has shown almost conclusively that the true date is B.C. 290-8 (it is possibly a year or two later, see Wilhelm, Urkunden dramatischer Aufführungen in Athen, p. 52, as the date of Diotimus’ archonship is not absolutely certain). This column must have contained the last records of comic contests at the Lenaea which came within the plan of this inscription, as the next column begins the records of tragic contests. It would appear, therefore, that the date of the transcribing of this series of didascaliae upon stone was in all probability circ. B.C. 287. Capps conjectures (with much reason) that C. I. A. ii. 972 formed part of one great didascalic inscription arranged in the order (1) Tragedy at the Dionysia, (2) Comedy at the Dionysia, (3) Comedy at the Lenaea, (4) Tragedy at the Lenaea. The extant fragments, therefore, mark the junction of parts (3) and (4). The original stone is now lost, and the record depends on the copies of Fourmont and Le Bas, the latter being apparently the more trustworthy.
| ..... τέ(ταρτος)....]στίδι | |
| ὑπε(κρίνετο) Ἀριστόμ]αχος. | |
| .... ης πέμ(πτος) Ἀνασῳζο(μένοις), | |
| ὑπε(κρίνετο) Ἀντ]ιφάνης. | |
| ὑπο(κριτὴς) Ἱερ]ώνυμος ἐνίκα. | |
| ἐπὶ Δι]οτίμου Σιμύλος | (B.C. 289-8) |
| ... σίᾳ ὑπε(κρίνετο) Ἀριστόμαχος. | |
| Διόδωρος δεύ(τερος) Νεκρῷ | |
| ὑπε(κρίνετο) Ἀριστόμαχος. | |
| Διόδωρος τρί(τος) Μαινομένῳ | |
| ὑπε(κρίνετο) Κηφίσιος. | |
| Φο]ινικ[ίδ]ης τέ(ταρτος) Ποητεῖ | |
| ὑπε(κρίνετο).....]ης |