Inventory number
ΕΑΜ 1479
Artist
Attic workshop
Category
Inscription
Period
Classical Period
Date
397/6 BC
Dimensions
Height: 0.395 m
Length: 0.43 m
Width: 0.09 m
Relief depth: 0.01 m
Material
Marble
Location
South vestibule. Parthenon Gallery
The stele has been found during the excavations conducted between 1876 and 1877 on the south slope of the Acropolis whereas part of it is housed in the Epigraphical Museum of Athens (ΕΜ 7801).
Preserved are the upper part of the stele capped with a relief and the first eight lines of the inscription. The text cut into stone stoichedon and written in the Attic alphabet records the accounts of the treasurers who served Athena and the other gods in 398/7 BC when Euthikles was the Eponymous Archon.
The relief shows Athena clad in a peplos and himation and over them a short aegis shaking hands with a man. Over the years he has been variously interpreted as Kekrops, Hephaistos or the personification of the Deme of Athens meaning as the whole of the citizens and city-state constitutions. Most possibly, however, he is Erechtheus the mythical king of Athens worshipped along Athena in the Erechtheion.
Between 434/3 and 340/339 BC there were two bodies of treasurers on the Acropolis: the treasurers serving the goddess Athena and the treasurers of the other gods. They merged into one group from 406/5 to 386/5 BC, were divided into two separate bodies again in later times and reunited again in 346 BC.
The treasurers of Athena were ten men, one from each Athenian tribe, appointed by lot. They belonged to the class of the pentakosiomedimnoi, the highest of the four socio-economic classes in which Athenian citizens were divided. They were in charge of managing and recording the money and precious dedications kept at the Acropolis and also pay out the amounts loaned to the state. Their term of office was annual, extended from one Panathenaic festival to the other. Until 430/29 BC the accounts were made public every year following the end of the treasurers’ term of service and after 429 BC every four years.
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