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Headword:
*tami/ai
Adler number: tau,58
Translated headword: treasurers, stewards
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They are officials at
Athens appointed by lot from the five-hundred-bushel men;[1] they guard both the sacred and the public monies in the temple of Athena on [the] acropolis, as well as the statue of Athena itself. There are also other official treasurers, elected ones, who look after the sacred and public triremes: one for the Paralos and one for that of Ammon.[2]
*tami/ai: a)/rxonte/s ei)sin *)aqh/nhsi klhrwtoi\ a)po\ tw=n pentakosiomedi/mnwn, oi(\ ta\ e)n tw=| i(erw=| th=s *)aqhna=s e)n a)kropo/lei xrh/mata i(era/ te kai\ dhmo/sia fula/ttousin, a)lla\ kai\ au)to\ to\ a)/galma th=s *)aqhna=s. ei)si\ de\ kai\ a)/lloi tami/ai a)/rxontes xeirotonhtoi\ e)pi\ ta\s i(era\s kai\ dhmosi/as trih/reis, o( me\n e)pi\ th\n *pa/ralon, o( de\ e)pi\ th\n tou= *)/ammwnos.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius; similar ones elsewhere. See also
tau 59.
[1] See
pi 972; these were, in theory at least, the very richest Athenians.
[2] On these ceremonial triremes, esp. the (?)Ammonis, see P.J.
Rhodes,
A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford 1981) 687-8. In the Suda, see
iota 161,
pi 387,
pi 388,
pi 389,
sigma 47.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 December 2000@04:38:57.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (supplemented translation, added cross-references, set status) on 20 September 2004@20:56:13.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 21 September 2004@03:32:33.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 12 August 2011@04:21:26.
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