Two Inscriptions from the Athenian Agora: I 7571 and I 7579

by Kevin F. Daly

Hesperia, Volume 76, Issue 3
Page(s): 539-554
Stable URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2972/hesp.76.3.539
Publication Date: 2007

Period: Hellenistic
Site: Athens, Rhodes, Eleusis
Subject: Attic epigraphy; Athenian political history

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ABSTRACT:Two inscriptions discovered in the Agora Excavations contribute new information about Athenian political history: Athenian interactions with Rhodes in the late 3rd or early 2nd century B.C., and prytany members during the late 2nd century A.D. A state decree, I 7571 names an Athenian proxenos to Rhodes at a time of particularly intense diplomatic activity. The content of I 7579, a prytany document, advances our knowledge of Eleusinian officials and Athenian state practices around a.d. 191/2. In addition, the tribal affiliation proposed for a secretary named in this inscription supports the applicability of Ferguson's Law to this period.