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A Rubric in the Propylaia Accounts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Wesley E. Thompson
Wesley E. Thompson
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University of California, Davis
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Meritt, Wade-Gery, and McGregor have interpreted the rubric to signify that the Hellenotamiai transferred to the commissioners of the Propylaia any un-expended funds left from a grant of money authorized by the demos for a given military campaign. While this idea of surplus funds seems a perfectly possible explanation, I would suggest an alternative, that the Hellenotamiai transferred to the commissioners of the Propylaia an aparche of booty collected by an Athenian expeditionary force. Herodotus and Xenophon4 mention the dekate from the booty of several battles, and Thucydides speaks of the dedication of spoils as a customary procedure.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , May 1970 , pp. 39 - 40
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1970

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page 39 note 1 ATL iii. 329–32; after we have the name of the commander of the expedition; after the name of the Hellenotamias in charge of the transaction.Google Scholar

page 39 note 2 Ibid.

page 39 note 3 5. 77. 4, 8. 27. 5, 9. 81. 1.

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page 40 note 1 Dmsmoor 305.

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