Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections: 9: Brocklesby Park

Brocklesby Park in Lincolnshire is home to the collection of antiquities amassed in the late eighteenth century by Sir Richard Worsley (and originally kept and displayed in his house at Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight). AIUK 9 publishes the four Attic inscriptions which are now part of the collection: two funerary monuments, and two dedications. We propose a new interpretation of one of these dedications (which has previously been interpreted as a funerary monument), and argue that it formed part of a monument, other fragments of which have been discovered in the excavations of the Athenian Agora, commemorating victory in the anthippasia. We publish also a fifth inscription, another dedication, which was part of Worsley’s original collection but whose location is now unknown. The volume includes a detailed discussion of the history of the collection, which was one of the earliest assemblages of Greek antiquities in the United Kingdom and remains one of the most significant privately-held collections in the country.