Attic Stelai Slaves

The absence of ethnics is probably an accident of cataloguing and not an indication that these slaves were greeks or born in greece (pritchett ii, 281);

Attic stelai slaves.

Discussion of the details of the athenian calendar became in their hands so abstruse that for decades few other scholars have ventured into the jungle. “slave agency and the law in classical athens.” in voiceless, invisible and countless: See also ig i 3 425, ig i 3 426.

The attic stelai record slaves confiscated from condemned athenians and metics. The central focus will be upon the attic stelai showing more than one figure, particularly the ‘family group’ reliefs and their social significance. The slaves listed turn out to be overwhelmingly male, which tneds to confirm the impression from literary evidence that most slaves in athens were male.

While furley can cast doubt on two of the cases (in smaller letters hence added later) he cannot explain away the third, which seems on the face of it to be even stronger evidence than thucydides and andocides. Ig i 3 93) the pillars of hermes (‘herms’) that stood in doorways all over the city were vandalised (thuc. Also, four individuals on the attic stelai were condemned for profaning the mysteries and three were condemned “concerning both”;

The attic stelai record slaves confiscated from condemned athenians and metics. In antiquity, as today, carved tombstones were expensive, and served as indicators of wealth and status, in addition. Slaves are known as early as 1700 bc in the earliest records of greece.

Some slaves from illyria are mentioned in the attic stelai but hardly anywhere else, their numbers being dwarfed by the multitudes of anatolian and thracian slaves. It was to continue until meritt’s death in 1989. The proportion of female slaves is too low, because the confiscations from the hermokopidai did not usually include property attached to their wives.

Aio follows or in initially providing three extracts from this set of 10 inscriptions, known as the attic stelai (pollux 10.97). John porter, slavery in antiquity / web link; The attic stelai record slaves confiscated from condemned athenians and metics.