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SIX ATHENIAN SACRIFICIAL CALENDARS
Contents Form, Distribution, Preservation, Newness 170 Introduction to the Individual Calendars 172 The Collections of Leges Sacrae 173 Bibliographies and Descriptions: (1) The Athenian State {Hesp 1935. 5-32; 1941. 31-37) 173 (2) The Marathonian Tetrapolis (/Gil* 1358) 174 (3) The Deme Erkhia (BCH 1963. 603-634) 175 (4) The Deme Eleusis {Harv Theol Stud 21 [1965]) 175 (5) The Deme Teithras {Hesp 1961. 293-297) 176 (6) The Genos of the Salaminioi (Hesp 1938. 1-74) 176 Table 178 Distinctive Character of the Six Calendars 176 Codifications as Scholarly Editions, Conveniences, Reforms 177 The Calendars as Financial Measures 180 (1) Financial Aspects of the State Code 180 (2) The Calendar and the Contributors of the Tetrapolis 181 (3) The Greater Demarkhia at Erkhia 182 (4) The Cult Personnel at Eleusis 184 (5) Teithras 184 (6) Financial Concerns of the Salaminioi 185 The Demes and Cult Expenses in the Fourth Century 185 The Absence of Priests 1 86
Form, Distribution, Preservation, Newness. The form of the developed Athenian sacrificial calendar was price — deity — victim : these were its essential items, and the main body of the calendar consists of such entries. They follow along one after the other, a list without connectives. Preceding these entries are rubrics. Perquisites and other extras are entered at the end. Unless space on the stone is too limited, the arrangement of the list is columnar, with a new line for every rubric, every sacrifice, every perquisite. The price stands in the margin at the left, and the lines are short. An example is a monthly rubric and a complete panel for one day, from the Calendar of the Deme Teithras (slightly
