A Note on the Parthenon Inventories and the Date of IG i3 52B. [From: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 118, 1997].

Samons II, Loren J.:

Published by Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 1997

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pp. 179-182. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication by the author. - Cover rubbed and bumped, author's name handwritten on cover,otherwise clean. - From the text: Scholars have long maintained that the series of inscribed inventories of Athena s treasure in the three cellae of the Parthenon (the hekatompedon, parthenon, and pronaos) beginning with the year 434/3, and the supposed orders to publish such inventories believed to be implied in the so-called second financial decree of Kallias, provide evidence for the passage of the "Kallias decrees" (IG i3 52A, B) in this year. However, in a recent article I have argued that the portion of the putative second Kallias decree that has been taken to imply an order to publish inventories of Athena s treasure in the Parthenon (IG i3 52B, lines 26-29) in fact does not refer to this treasure in the Parthenon at all. The procedures spelled out in the decree are inconsistent with those in the actual inventories as they have come down to us; the orders in these lines rather refer to a certain amount of treasure (primarily monetary) in the Opisthodomos, a subject at issue on both sides of the stone. Here I wish to provide additional support for this conclusion, and to make two related points. 1) The published inventories for the years 434/3-433/2 in fact suggest that no order to publish inventories of the Parthenon treasure existed before early 432/1, and 2) those who would date the "Kallias decrees" to 434/3 should therefore reject the idea that decree B ordered the publication of these inventories, otherwise a traditional support for the date 434/3 must become a liability. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Seller Inventory # 1202446

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Title: A Note on the Parthenon Inventories and the ...

Publisher: Bonn: Rudolf Habelt

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Reprint.

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