Following the Greek victory over the Persians in 479 B.C., Athens formed a naval confederacy with other Greek cities around the Aegean Sea. Gradually, however, it became an empire exacting annual tribute for the benefit of Athens alone. This inscription is part of a tribute list recording payments to Athens by members of the confederacy. It lists the assessments of Paros, Naxos, Andros, Melos, Siphnos, Eretria, and Thera. The date is 425/424 B.C., and the amounts are high because Athens was combating Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
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Title:Fragmentary marble inscription
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 425–424 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Marble
Dimensions:Overall: 5 1/8 x 6 3/4in. (13 x 17.1cm)
Classification:Stone Sculpture
Credit Line:Fletcher Fund, 1926
Object Number:26.60.5
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Alexander, Christine. 1926. "Classical Inscriptions: Recent Accessions." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21(7): pp. 176–77, fig. 1.
Bull, Ludlow S. 1926. "Two Letters to Akhnaton King of Egypt." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21(7): p. 176, fig. 1.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 146, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
West, Allen B. 1930–1931. "Two Assessments of the Athenian Empire." Metropolitan Museum Studies, 3(2): pp. 174–93, fig. 1.
Meritt, Benjamin Dean and Allen B. West. 1934. The Athenian Assessment of 425 B.C.. p. 17, pl. II, ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Meritt, Benjamin Dean, Henry Theodore Wade-Gery, and Malcolm Francis McGregor. 1939. The Athenian Tribute Lists, Vol. 1. no. 21, p. 112, fig. 457, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 95 [n. 24], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Bodel, John P. and Stephen Tracy. 1997. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA : A Checklist. p. 182, Rome: American Academy in Rome.
Paarmann, Björn. 2007. "Aparchai and Phoroi: A New Commented Edition of the Athenian Tribute Quota Lists and Assessment Decrees." Ph.D. Diss. p. 137. Fribourg, Switzerland.
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