IGI3 329 Inventory of the Hekatompedon, 418/7 BC

Inventory of the Hekatompedon, 418/7 BC

IG I³ 329 Date: 418/7 BC

The four sets of officials (archai) who gave their accounts (logon) from Panathenaia to Panathenaia handed over the following to the treasurers Pythodoros of Halai and his fellow officials, to whom Phormio son of Aristion of Kydathenaion was secretary; the treasurers, to whom Phormio son of Aristion of Kydathenaion was secretary, handed over to the treasurers Anaxikrates of Lamptrai and his fellow officials, to whom Euxenos son of Euphanes of Prospalta (5) was secretary:^[1] in the hekatompedon temple (neoi):^[2] 3 gold dishes (phialai), weight of these 2,544 dr.; a gold maiden on a stele, not weighed; a silver holy-water sprinkler (aporanterion), not weighed; 2 gold crowns (stephano), weight of these 80 dr.; a gold crown which Nike has, weight of this 60 dr.^[3]; 8 silver dishes; weight of these 800 dr.; silver goblet (karchesion), weight of this 200 dr.; silver goblet of Zeus Polieus, weight of this 200 dr.; gold crown, weight of this [-]3 dr. 2 ob.; gold circlet (stephane), weight (10) of this 63 dr.; 4 gold crowns, weight of these 135 dr. 2 ob.; gold crown, weight of this 18 dr. 3 ob.; two gold pieces (chruside), weight of these 293 dr. 3 ob.; gold piece (chrusis), weight of this 138 dr. 2 ob.; gold piece, weight of this 119 dr.; gold crown, weight of this 26 dr. 3 ob.; silver piece, weight of this 192 dr.; silver incense-burner (thumiaterion), weight of this 1,000 dr. Additions that occurred during the year (epeteia epegeneto):^[4] gold crown, weight of this 1,250 dr.; gold crown, weight of this [–]1 dr.; gold crown, weight (15) of this 35 dr..

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References:

IG I³ 329 (Translated text) (IG Online) (PHI)

GIBM I 27

ML 76

Fornara, Translated documents 143

OR 169

Translation by: Stephen Lambert, Robin Osborne

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Account

Fragment a - Findspot: Acropolis (North slope) (BM 1816,0610.276)
Fragment b, once in Cabinet des Medailles, Paris - Findspot: Acropolis (North slope) (Unknown)

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[1] IG I³ 52 B 26 ff. provided for the treasurers of Athena to weigh and count the sacred treasures of Athena on the acropolis and inscribed accounts survive of the resulting inventories from 434/3 BC through to the end of the fourth century. The treasurers of Athena held office for a year which ran not in line with the Council's (solar) year (cf. IG I³ 449 n. 3) nor the lunar, or archon's year, which started at the beginning of Hekatombaion (ca. July, cf. IG II³ 1, 293 n. 2), but from Panathenaia (which took place at the end of Hekatombaion) to Panathenaia. This is the heading of the reverse face of an inscription which included, on its front, inventories running for the four years from the Great Panathenaia 422/1 to the Great Panathenaia 419/8, and on the reverse, the four years of the next Panathenaic cycle, 418/7-415/4. The inventories are paradosis accounts, recording the transmission of responsibility from one set of treasurers to their successors (cf. IG II³ 1, 898 n. 2). The "four sets of officials" (l. 1) are the treasurers who held office for the years in the Panathenaic quadrennium 422/1-419/8. Pythodoros of Halai and his fellow treasurers were in office in 418/7 and Phormio son of Aristion of Kydathenaion and his fellow treasurers were in office in 417/6. [2] The term "hekatompedon" can designate the Parthenon as a whole, or more specifically, as here, the chamber in which the chryselephantine statue of Athena stood. The inventories of the hekatompedon are IG I³ 317-42. There were separate inventories for the western chamber, known as the parthenon (IG I³ 343-62, and the east porch, the pronaos, (IG I³ 292-316). It is uncertain whether the "rear chamber", opisthodomos, whose contents were also inventoried, was the rear porch of the Parthenon or a separate building (cf. IG I³ 52). In the fifth century the inventories of the hekatompedon and the pronaos record only items of precious metal, whereas those of the parthenon include arms and armour, couches, chairs and tables, and lyres. These items are never added to and may represent property of the goddess used e.g. in festivals rather than dedications. Not listed at all are the large quantities of ceramic material and the statues in bronze and marble dedicated on the acropolis, though not all such dedications were originally placed in the Parthenon. These inventories have an accounting purpose for the treasurers of Athena (who, like all other officials, were liable to audit, euthynai, at the end of their terms of office) and also allowed an assessment to be made of the potential wealth contained in these dedications in precious metal (cf. Thuc. 2.13.4) for the eventuality that, after the cash resources of the temples had been loaned out, the city also needed to borrow the value tied up in the dedications, as occurred in 407 (FGH 328 Philochoros F 141). [3] This is the gold crown worn by the small statue of Nike which stood on the hand of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos. It is first recorded in 428/7. [4] This level of accrual of new dedications made in the course of the year is fairly typical. On a ratio of gold : silver of 14 : 1 (see IG I³ 458 n. 3) the total value of the items listed in this inscription was c. 12 tal., of which almost three-quarters had accumulated since 434.

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