Hamaxanteia

Hamaxanteia ( Greek Ἁμαξάντεια ) was an ancient Attic demos of the 8th phyle Hippoth (o) ontis, possibly in the Attic Paralia and thus in the coastal strip of Attica . As a demos, it represented one of the administrative units established by the Kleisthenic reforms . It is unclear which of the thirty higher-ranking Trittyes - administrative units, three of which each formed a phyle - it was assigned to. If the demos was on the coast, it was assigned to the Trittys Eleusis . The demos hired a representative in the Boule , the Council of 500 in Athens.

The demos was involved in the administration of the sanctuaries on Delos at least in the Hellenistic period and was established in 158/157 BC. With a certain "Philocrates, son of Philocrates, from the Demos Hamaxanteia", a priest of Serapis on Delos. Hamaxanteia is also known for a relief stele from Kerameikos , which depicts a loutrophoros flanked by two lekyths and two aryballoi . Loutrophoros mentions the scene reproduced on it with a "Panaitios from the Demos Hamaxanteia".

literature

Walther Kolbe : Hamaxanteia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 2, Stuttgart 1912, Col. 2296.
John Stuart Traill: The political organization of Attica. A study of the demes, tratyes, and phylai, and their representation in the Athenian Council . ASCSA, Princeton 1975, ISBN 0-87661-514-0 , p. 51 ( online at Google Books ).
John Stuart Traill: Demos and Strategien: epigraphical and topographical studies in the organization of Attica . Athenians, Toronto 1986, p. 138.
Hans Lohmann : Hamaxanteia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01475-4 , Sp. 103.
Margarethe Billerbeck , Jan Felix Gaertner (Ed.): Stephani Byzantii Ethnica . Volume 1. de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-017449-6 , p. 177 ( online at Google Books ).

Remarks

↑ Pierre Roussel, Marcel Launey: Inscriptions de Delos (ID). Volume 3, 2: Dédicaces postérieures à 166 av. J.-C. (nos 1525-2219) . H. Champion, Paris 1937, no.2605 . The inscriptions ID 2137 , 2138 , 2139 , probably from the year 162/61 BC , also come from this year . Chr. ID 1981 . Philocrates is also mentioned in the inscriptions ID 1416 , line B.II.1, 27 (156/55 BC) and ID 1460 , Z. line B 21 (between 156 and 143 BC).
^ Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) II² 5601 . Ursula Knigge: The Kerameikos of Athens. Guided tour of excavations and history . Krene-Verlag, Athens 1988, p. 154 with ill. 151b; Christoph W. Clairmont: Classical Attic Tombstones . Catalog Volume 2, 1993, pp. 652-653 No. 2710.

[1] Pierre Roussel, Marcel Launey: Inscriptions de Delos (ID). Volume 3, 2: Dédicaces postérieures à 166 av. J.-C. (nos 1525-2219) . H. Champion, Paris 1937, no.2605 . The inscriptions ID 2137 , 2138 , 2139 , probably from the year 162/61 BC , also come from this year . Chr. ID 1981 . Philocrates is also mentioned in the inscriptions ID 1416 , line B.II.1, 27 (156/55 BC) and ID 1460 , Z. line B 21 (between 156 and 143 BC).

[2] Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) II² 5601 . Ursula Knigge: The Kerameikos of Athens. Guided tour of excavations and history . Krene-Verlag, Athens 1988, p. 154 with ill. 151b; Christoph W. Clairmont: Classical Attic Tombstones . Catalog Volume 2, 1993, pp. 652-653 No. 2710.