Table des matières
Chapter 1
The sanctuary’s stewardship records accounting methods and administrative practices of the hieropoioi- The establishment of a Delian administration
- The Origins
- The Athenian organization
- The Independence of Delos
- The Transmission of the Sacred Fortune
- The recovery of capital
- Recent debts or claims from Athenian times?
- The role of the private fortune of the Delians
- The financial policy of the city‑state of Delos
- The Authority of the Delian City‑State over the Sacred Treasury
- A question of aptitude?
- Public borrowing
- Loans to private individuals
- The management of space in the organization of Apollo’s treasury
- The Places Where Money Was Kept
- The Artemision and the Temple of Apollo
- Moving the funds
- The question of monetary effigies
- Forms of Storage
- The Place of the Accounts
- The accounting methods of the hieropoioi
- The Hierarchy of Records
- The deltos, a copy of the stele
- The leukomata for the monthly accounts
- The peteura for contractual operations
- Papyrus sheets: the rough draft of the accounts
- The account stele: a synthesis from several archival registers
- From Cashiers’ Practices to Accountants’ Rationales
- The formulation of account balances
- Management of the accounting balance for the financial period
- The major change in the years 230‑220 BC
- Sacred Fund and Public Fund: From Separation to Accounting summary
- A genuine synthesis between the two funds
- A necessary advancement in accounting methods
- The invention of an accounting system
- The change in attributions
- “Double‑Entry Book‑Keeping”?
- Awareness of the challenges of “double entries”
- Multiple actors
- Conclusion: The Purposes of the Accounts of the Hieropoioi
Chapter 2
The sacred fortune: the Assets Statement- The growth of the sanctuary’s cash fortune
- The Steady Increase in Funds
- The amounts mobilized in the way of loans
- The contribution of regular revenues
- Building work
- The Question of the Swelling of Cash Holdings at the End of Independence
- The year 192 BC
- The year 179 BC
- The year 177 BC
- The year 168 BC
- The Assets Statement
- The precious offerings
- The Classical Treasure
- The Treasure at the End of Independence
- Variations in the Collection
- The treasure at the beginning of Independence
- The treasure in the mid‑third century BC
- Apollo’s fortune as financial power?
- The Apportionment of Assets
- Delian Apollo and the Other Gods
- Hoarding and Circulation
- Conclusion: The destiny of the Delian treasure under the second Athenian domination
Chapter 3
The composition of the Treasuries: Analysis of the Funds- The Séanctuary’s coined income
- Own Resources
- Other Revenues
- Reselling
- Offertory boxes
- Fines
- Subsidies and Allocated funds
- The Phiale
- Subsidies for Festivals and Competitions
- The prizes for the gymnastic competitions of the Apollonia
- The wages of the flute players for the Apollonia
- Expenses for the services of technitai at the Dionysian games
- Thesmophoria, Posideia and Eileithyaia: subsidized festivals?
- Choregikon
- Prytanikon
- Horoi and Trapezai
- The Endowment funds
- The Donors
- Management of the Capital
- The Histiatikon Argurion
- The composition of the funds
- A fund of specific coins
- The Jars
- Composition of the Sacred Fund from the Inventory of Jars
- The Ancient Fund
- Jars 1‑6
- Jar 7
- Jar 8
- Jar 9
- Jar 10
- The Money of Tenos and The Minoe
- Technical terms
- The money from Tenos
- The money from the Minoe
- The use of this money
- The Other Jars
- The Hoarded Entries
- The Public Treasury
- The Income of the Public Fund
- Taxes
- The pentekoste
- The dekatai
- The hypotropion
- Stall fees
- The agora rents
- Loan income?
- Judicial income
- Revenues from funds and endowments
- Spending from the Public Fund
- Operating expenses
- Diplomatic expenditure
- Festivals
- The oxen and the boonia
- Public services
- Public building works
- The grain supply
- The Organizing Principles of the Public Treasury of Delos and the Diataxis of the City‑State
- The apportionment of revenues
- The temple deposit
- Conclusion: Public property and Sacred property on Delos
Chapter 4
Monetary policy and currency circulation on Hellenistic Delos- The hieropoioi as money handlers: monetary recycling in the sacred chest
- Currency Changes in the Cash Holdings
- The Evidence of the Inventories of the Second Athenian Domination
- The Athenian administrators’ methods
- The nature of the specie inventoried
- The monies handled by the hieropoioi
- The evidence of the account balances
- Changes to the cash holdings
- The role of the coinage of Alexander
- Delian coinage
- The Testimony of Coins
- The Chronology of Monetary Issues from the Accounts of the Hieropoioi
- The date of issue of the citharephorics
- The date of the issue of the phoinikophorics
- The consecration of dies
- Metrology of Local Coinage
- Accounting issues: the question of the artificial exchange rate of the Delian drachma
- Hypothesis on the change in weight of the citharephorics
- Changes in weights and measures in the Mediterranean as seen from Delos
- The 12‑Chalkos Obol
- From the amphora to the 12‑khous metretes
- From the Epidekaton to the Ephekton
- Aegean Metrological Models from the Third to the Second Centuries BC
- The citharephorics in the Aegean monetary landscape
- The phoinikophorics in the Aegean monetary landscape
- The Cyclades: “The Island Standard”
- The Delian chalkou and its metrological challenges
- Monetary circulation on Hellenistic Delos
- The Testimony of the Treasuries
- The Role of Bankers on Delos
- Conclusion: an ever‑changing monetary landscape
Chapter 5
The Delian economy: the market and prices- The creation of a market
- The Recording of Prices in the Accounts of the Hieropoioi: The Expression of Demand
- The question of the state of the economy
- The sanctuary’s influence
- Difficulty with price analysis
- The Organization of Procurement for the Sanctuary
- Local stockists and suppliers
- Provenance and transport costs: the organization of stocks
- Pitch and oil
- Tiles
- Products imported from afar
- The market for everyday consumer goods
- Sacrificial animals
- Timber
- Price‑Setting: Auctions and Bargaining
- The challenges of resorting to auction
- The hieropoioi as sellers
- The hieropoioi as buyers
- Price negotiations
- The characteristics of the Delian market
- The Continuity of Structures and Activities
- The classical emporion
- Population growth in the third century
- Business Premises and the Interests of the Delians
- The practices of the hieropoioi
- Stockpiling outside the sanctuary
- Competition among Delians
- The City‑State’s Policy
- Price changes and redistributive commerce
- The fight against speculation
- The development of the Delian emporion
- The Volume of Exchange
- The Delian pentekoste
- The Rhodian ellimenion
- The Transit Trade
- The clues from the grain trade
- Slaves
- The ateleia
- The Commercial Infrastructures
- The Agora of the Delians
- The choma
- The Facilities
- The Storage Infrastructures
- Conclusion: from the emporion to the free port
Appendix
Appendix 1
The accounting practices of the hieropoioi- Account of 313 BC
- IG XI 2, 135. Delos Museum, Γ203
- Account dated shortly before 301 BC
- IG XI 2, 144 A. Delos Museum, Γ503Α‑Γ
- Account of the year 298 BC
- IG XI 2, 148 A. Delos Museum, Γ480
- Account of the year 287 BC
- IG XI 2, 155. Delos Museum, Γ263Α‑Β
- Account of 282 BC
- IG XI 2, 158 A. Delos Museum, Γ209
- Account of 281 BC
- IG XI 2, 159 A. Delos Museum, Γ264
- Account of 279 BC
- IG XI 2, 161 A. Delos Museum, Γ266
- Account of 278 BC
- IG XI 2, 162 A. Delos Museum, Γ205, Α‑Β
- Account of 276 BC
- IG XI 2, 163. Delos Museum, Γ201 ΑΒΓ; 374, 375, 388, 198
- Account of 269 BC
- IG XI 2, 203 A. Delos Museum, Γ250
- Account of 250 BC
- IG XI 2, 287 A. Delos Museum, Γ91
- Account of 246 BC
- ID 290. Delos Museum, Γ479α‑η
- Account of 231 BC
- ID 316. Delos Museum, Γ210
- Account of 230 BC
- ID 317. Delos Museum, Γ282α‑ε
- Account of 218 BC
- ID 354. Delos Museum, Γ204
- Account of 209 BC
- ID 362+364. Delos Museum, Γ228, 302 (ID 362) and Γ47 (ID 364)
- Account of 208 BC
- ID 365. Delos Museum, Γ166
- Account of 206 BC
- ID 368. Lost stone
- Account of 200 BC
- ID 372 A. Delos Museum, Γ261 α, β, γ
- Annual account ca. 200 BC
- ID 376. Delos Museum, Γ64
- Account of 192 BC
- ID 399 A. Delos Museum, Γ262
- Account of 179 BC
- ID 442 A. Delos Museum, Γ48α, β
- Account of 177 BC
- ID 444 A. Delos Museum
- Account of 173 BC
- ID 455 + Γ766γA. Delos Museum, Γ46, 248, 247αβ, 448, 449, 450α‑ε + Γ766γ
- Account of 169 BC
- ID 461 A. Delos Museum, Γ502α,β
- Account of 168 BC
- ID 465. Delos Museum, Γ461‑465, 467
Appendix 3
Inventory of jars by the Athenian admintrators (after id 1432, bb, col. I and ba, col. IIAppendix 4
Delian Law on the sale of wood and charcoalAppendix 5
Months of the Delian calendarAppendix 7
Chronology of the stelae and fragments of accounts of the end of the period of independenceAppendix 8
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