2. The group
occurs twice, before and after the words deinôn ponôn. There is a difficulty about the sign
, which Dr. Crusius takes to be a Vortragszeichen. The other two characters may be instrumental notes.
The double ω of ως (written ΩΩΣ) is interesting because it shows that when more than one note went with a syllable, the vowel or diphthong was repeated. This agrees with the well-known hei-ei-ei-ei-ei-eilissete of Aristophanes (Ran. 1314), and is amply confirmed by the newly discovered hymn to Apollo ([p. 134]).
Musical part of the Seikelos inscription.
OSONZÊSPHAINOU MÊDENOLÔSSY LYPOUPOSOLI GONESTITOZÊN TOTELOSOCHRO NOSAPAITEI
The inscription of which these lines form part was discovered by Mr. W. M. Ramsay, and was first published by him in the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique for 1883, p. 277. It professes to be the work of a certain Seikelos. The discovery that the smaller letters between the lines are musical notes was made by Dr. Wessely.