Inventory number
ΕΜ 7862
Artist
Attic workshop
Category
Inscription
Period
Classical Period
Date
399/8 BC
Dimensions
Height: 0.7 m
Length: 0.53 m
Width: 0.115 m
Relief depth: 0.015 m
Material
Marble from Penteli
Location
South vestibule. Parthenon Gallery
Preserved is the upper part of the relief and ten text lines. The inscription written in the Attic alphabet included the account of Athena's and other gods’ treasurers who served the city when the Eponymous Archon was Laches whose name and office are mentioned in the second text line.
The relief depicts the goddesses Athena and Hera in a handshake a scene found also on the Samians decree Ακρ. 1333. According to an earlier interpretation, Hera was identified as Demeter or the personification of the City, Authority, Order or the Council.
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 Athenian treasurers who belonged to the class of the pentacosiomedimnoi were ten in number, one from each tribe, and appointed by lot. They were in charge of managing and recording the treasures kept in the Parthenon and paid out the amounts loaned to the state. Their term of office extended from Panathenaia to Panathenaia. 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.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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