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Treasure Map - A Guide to the Delian Inventories (Paperback)
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Treasure Map - A Guide to the Delian Inventories (Paperback)
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In the fourth century b.c.e., the Athenians introduced to the
sacred isle of Delos the habit of making marble inscriptions that
noted "inventories" of goods in religious precincts. These
inscriptions are now quite damaged and badly preserved, but they
offer a trove of information about religious practice on this most
unusual island. Richard Hamilton has tackled the difficult task of
examining and analyzing these inscriptions, and his new book
provides a fund of information about the inventories and their
island. The volume is important and innovative in that it offers
detailed insight into the workings of one of the most important
Greek sanctuaries. Treasure Map brings together information that is
otherwise widely scattered in a number of languages, modern and
ancient. It offers translations of the inventories in English for
the first time, and it presents extensive notes on objects
recorded, on how the inventories were listed and weighed, and on
aspects of Delian life and politics. Treasure Map will be a major
resource for scholars and students of Greek religion and history,
epigraphy, ancient economics, and politics.
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