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Halicarnassus – Salmakis. A pre-Classical sympoliteia?

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Published/Copyright: August 21, 2017

Summary:

The article focuses on the status of the settlement of Salmakis and the Salmakitans mentioned in two Halicarnassian inscriptions: Syll.3 46 and Syll.3 45 respectively. On the basis of some thematic and formal features of Syll.3 45, it is suggested that the status quo mirrored in the inscription is that resulting from a sympoliteia whereby Halicarnassus had absorbed the neighbouring polis of Salmakis. The article closes with some considerations on the possible location of Salmakis.

Acknowledgments:

I wish to express my gratitude to Simone Zimmermann Kuoni and Prof. Rosa-Araceli Santiago for illuminating conversations on the topic, as well as for reading an earlier draft of this paper. I am also indebted to Prof. Poul Pedersen, Director of the Danish Halikarnassos Project (Syddansk Universitet), for his generous help with the archaeological data, and to Prof. Anna Ginestí Rosell for facilitating me access to bibliography. I have also benefitted from a grant by the Fondation Hardt, in whose charming environment I was able to write most of this paper, as well as from the economical and institutional support of the Research Project FFI2013–41251-P „Estudio diacrónico de las instituciones religiosas de la Grecia antigua y de sus manifestaciones míticas“, led by Prof. Carlos Varias. I alone am responsible for remaining errors.

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