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Gkikaki, Mairi (2023) The Council of Five Hundred and Symbola in Classical Athens. In: Gkikaki, Mairi, (ed.) Tokens in Classical Athens and beyond. Liverpool Studies in Ancient History . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781837643899
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Abstract
It is widely accepted that Classical Athens is to be credited with the introduction of tokens (gr. Symbola) in public administration. Accumulative evidence shows that tokens were used in the Jury Courts, the Assembly and the Council. While the bronze lettered tokens have been convincingly assigned to the Jury Courts and the clay lettered tokens have been plausibly connected to the workings of the Assembly, there is a dearth of evidences when it comes to the Council. Aim of the present paper is to gather all relevant literary and material sources and to demonstrate that the Council was issuer of tokens in a much broader scale as we may think of because the Council probably issued or at least supervised the issue of all public tokens in Athens. The premises lay within the functions and the jurisdiction of the Council. The earliest testimony of the Council as issuer of tokens, the Kleinias’ Decree, dated probably to 425/4 BC (IG I3 34), has passed almost unnoticed in this regard. Likewise, the lead tokens found in and around the Old Bouleuterion and the Tholos have up till now not been regarded as a coherent lot.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CJ Numismatics D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History Faculty of Arts > History |
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| Series Name: | Liverpool Studies in Ancient History | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | Liverpool | ||||||||
| ISBN: | 9781837643899 | ||||||||
| Book Title: | Tokens in Classical Athens and beyond | ||||||||
| Editor: | Gkikaki, Mairi | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 October 2023 | ||||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 400 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 August 2023 | ||||||||
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