Attic Stelai Slaves

The proportion of female slaves is too low because the confiscations from the hermokopidai did not usually include property attached to their wives.

Attic stelai slaves.

Funerary stele of mnesarete daughter of socrates. A young servant left is facing her dead mistress. So only grant and i were allowed sleep in the actual attic quarters. Avep 10 9 is a man named.

The family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilization. 2008 the story of athens. Real estate both in attica and elsewhere stores of agricultural produce slaves and furnishings of all sorts. 1992 thucydides and the desertion of attic slaves during the decelean war ca 11 2.

Glyptothek munich this article contains special characters. 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. Slavery was an accepted practice in ancient greece as in other societies of the time. The condemned men are typically listed on the inscriptions more than once axiochos and adeimantos nine times on surviving fragments and the items sold give a clear impression of the range and extent of their property.

Attic stelai part u hesperia 25 1956 178 317. Amyx the attic stelai part iii. The central focus will be upon the attic stelai showing more than one figure particularly the family group reliefs and their social significance. The third figure in the background is a small girl who judging by the hairstyle was probably intended to represent a slave girl.

This property contained a high proportion of female slaves but would often have been retained by the wives or re possessed by their families before the auctions recorded in the attic stelai. Eirene 12 1974 5 46. These documents are probably lists of slave manumissions performed in athenian courtrooms with each entry naming what appears to be a freed slave and a manumitter. The discussion of slave prices of the value of slave labour of the cost of free labour and of the relationship of all of these to the prices of agricultural staples and of other commodities.

Andreyev some aspects of agrarian conditions in attica in the fifth to third centuries b c. This stele belongs to a set of inscribed records from athens known variously in scholarship as phialai inscriptions phialai exeleutherikai inscriptions attic manumissions or catalogi paterarum argentearum. Thesis the slaves listed in the attic stelai are unrepresentative of the athenian slave population. The attic was filled with artifacts replicas and materials that depicted a space lived in by enslaved people and allowing too many people could compromise its structural integrity.

For the athenians one slave for each hoplite was usually the case 30 n. Without proper rendering support you may see question marks boxes or other symbols. 1995 the other greeks. Fragments of the local chronicles of attika.

35 with the exception of pistos actually a typical slave name all come from adeimantus household.