AleshireAsklepieion 7 Inventory of the Asklepieion (214/3 BC)

Inventory of the Asklepieion (214/3 BC)

Aleshire, Asklepieion, 7 Date: 214/3 BC

Gods^[1] In the archonship of Diokles (214/3). Skirophorion. Account of the things chosen by the People for the liquidation (kathairesin) and repair of the things in the Asklepieion. The following things were liquidated, in the presence of the priest of (5) Asklepios, Eustratos of Oinoe^{VII or XII}, and the men named in charge of the liquidation and repair in the decree, which Telesinos of Erchia proposed, from the People: Nikomachos of Paiania, Glaukos of Rhamnous, Eu- of Oinoe; from the Areopagites: Hoplon of Phaleron, Theognis of Kydathenaion; and the general in charge of equipment Arist- (10) of Eleusis; and the public slave (dēmosiou) who was copying secretary (antigraphomenou), Demetrios the younger.^[2] The following silver items were liquidated: a drinking cup, weighing . . . ; Alketes’ alabastron, weighing 150 dr.; a bowl, which -gora dedicated, weight 40 dr.; another which Theokles of Oinoe dedicated, [weighing - ; -], which Malthake dedicated, weighing 20 dr.;^[3] heads which He- dedicated^[4] (15) . . . weighing 3 dr.; Kteso’s reliefs . . . . . . (≥) 1 dr.; Philippe’s five reliefs . . . uncertain number of lines missing

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Aleshire, Asklepieion, 7 (Translated text) (PHI)

IG II² 1539 (PHI)

Tracy, ALC 57i

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Account (Asklepieion)

Findspot: Acropolis, south slope (EM 7988)

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[1] This is one of at least ten temple inventories from the Asklepieion on the south slope of the Acropolis. For the others, see Aleshire, Asklepieion, 1. On the sanctuary in general, see IG II³ 4, 665 with notes). This inventory derives from a kathairesis, a "liquidation," in which old dedications were melted down to make one or more larger objects. For other examples of this kind of inventory, see Aleshire, Asklepieion, 5, 6, 9. The absence of a full decree laying out the procedure of the liquidation is surprising, but perhaps explained by this liquidation’s small scale. The letters were cut by the Cutter of IG II² 912, who was active ca. 226/5-180/79 BC (Tracy ALC, 55-60). [2] Most of the members of the commission are unknown, but Hoplon was eponymous archon in 221/0 BC. Eu- of Oinoe is perhaps identical with Eustratos the priest of the year (l. 4). Theognis and Demetrios had performed the same roles on a similar liquidation commission for dedications to the Hero Doctor in 220/19 BC (IG II³ 1, 1154). [3] This seems to be one of several dedications made by Malthake in 331/0 and 329/8 BC (Aleshire, Asklepieion, 3, ll. 96, 110, 113). Four of them also appear in 274/3 BC (IG II² 898, ll. 67, 69, 83, 96). [4] The heads are perhaps anatomical votives, cf. AIUK 4.5, pp. 69; J. Draycott and E.-J. Graham, Bodies of Evidence, 2017.

Added: 15 May 2025
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