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Fishless Mysteries Or High Prices at Athens? Re-Examining IG II 1103 Fishless mysteries or high prices at Athens? Re-examining IG II 1103 Autor(en): Lytle, Ephraim Objekttyp: Article Zeitschrift: Museum Helveticum : schweizerische Zeitschrift für klassische Altertumswissenschaft = Revue suisse pour l'étude de l'antiquité classique = Rivista svizzera di filologia classica Band (Jahr): 64 (2007) Heft 2 PDF erstellt am: 24.09.2021 Persistenter Link: http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-49504 Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besitzt keine Urheberrechte an den Inhalten der Zeitschriften. Die Rechte liegen in der Regel bei den Herausgebern. Die auf der Plattform e-periodica veröffentlichten Dokumente stehen für nicht-kommerzielle Zwecke in Lehre und Forschung sowie für die private Nutzung frei zur Verfügung. 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Re-examining IG II21103 By Ephraim Lyde, Toronto Abstract: Lhe letter partially preserved in JG II2 1103 has been interpreted as an attempt by Hadrian to alleviate shortages at Eleusis düring the Mysteries. Lhis article argues that the surviving clauses can be better understood as having formed part of a comprehensive measure intended to address not only shortages at Eleusis but also the underlying problem of high prices at Athens. In eliminat- ing middlemen and perhaps waiving certain nominal port fees Hadrian hopes to lower prices by encouraging additional fishermen to deliver their catches directly to Piraeus. He appears to stop short, however, of waiving customs duties on fish in Piraeus. unlike at Eleusis, probably because these duties contributed considerable revenues to the fisc. Finally, there is little reason to believe that Hadrian is concerned specifically with the Mysteries. IG IL 1103 intends primarily to regulate prices and should be included in a growing list of similar ancient measures motivated more by civic rather than religious concerns. IG II21103 preserves a fragmentary letter to Athens. Lhe inscription survives in two pieces. One was discovered in Piraeus and published by Curtius in 1870.' A second found its way to Lenos, where it was eventually discovered built into the wall of the Stavrodakhe church and published by Latischew in 1883.2 Wilhelm recognized that the two fragments joined, and demonstrated that the letter was probably composed by Hadrian.3 Graindor introduced the notion that Hadrian's epistle was concerned chiefly with shortages of fish in Eleusis when the city was crowded with visitors to the Mysteries.4 Oliver concurred, interpreting all of the letter's surviving clauses in the context of Eleusis, and subsequent scholars have followed suit.5 I argue that the prevailing interpretation rests on a number of questionable assumptions, that * I would like to thank Jim Sickinger, Kent Rigsby and especially Josh Sosin for corrections and suggestions. 1 Curtius. Philologus 29 (1870) 691-696. 2 Latischew, BCH 1 (1883) 250-251. 3 Wilhelm. JÖAI 12 (1909) 146-148. The lettering closely resembles other inscriptions more cer¬ tainly Hadrianic. e.g. his Oil Law (IG IF 1100). Wilhelm's dating is. aecording to Oliver. Greek Constitutions 194. one '"in which all subsequent students coneur". 4 Graindor. Athenes sous Hadrien 127-129. 5 Oliver's interpretation is implicit in the title he gives the document: "Hadrian's Epistle about the Sale of Fish at Eleusis." Oliver is followed by. e.g.. A. R. Birley. Hadrian: The Restless Emperor (London/New York 1997) 177: and M. T. Boatwright. Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire (Princeton 2000) 90-91 (the inscription is not from Eleusis: cf. 90). Museum Helveticum 64 (2007) 100-111 Fishless Mysteries or High Prices at Athens? 101 Hadrian was only incidentally concerned with shortages at Eleusis and that our inscription appears to preserve part of a comprehensive reform that has little to do with the Mysteries. It meant to address an underlying problem: the high price of fish at Athens. Piraeus Museum inv. no. 91 + Tenos Museum inv. no. 141. C. Curtius, Philologus 29 (1870) 691-696; B. Latischew, "Inscriptions de Tenos", BCH 7 (1883) 247-253, at 250-251; A. Wilhelm, "Inschriften aus Erythrai und Chios", JÖAf 12 (1909) 126-150, at 146-148 (photograph of Piraeus fragment at 146, fig. 64) [= fG II21103; F. F. Abbott and A. C. Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire (Princeton 1926) no. 91]; P. Graindor, Athenes sous Hadrien (Cairo 1934) 127-129 [= H. W. Pieket, Epigraphica, Vol. I, Texts on the Economic History of the Greek World (Textus Minores XXXI) (Leiden 1964) no. 16; H. E. M. Smallwood, Documents fllustrating the Principates of Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (Cambridge 1966) no. 444; F. Martin, La documenta- ciön griega de la cancilleria del emperador Adriano (Pamplona 1982) no. 14]; J. H. Oliver, Greek Constitutions ofEarly Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri (Philadelphia 1989) no. 77. 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IouXion 'HpcoÖLav[ou] KoA,?iuxecoc;. vacat 1-3: Wilhelm. 4: Graindor, ebc; pevr] [e-ijov^oc;?, äXXov öe pr\, chq? xa] Wilhelm, tva xö öta xä] Wilamowitz (fG II2 1103). 5: Graindor, x[ox>q öe t%9t)07tcbA,ac;] Wilhelm. 6: Wilhelm. [...] the two-obol fee [...] but not [...] but for the fishermen in Eleusis that there be an exemption from taxes on fish when they seil in the market in Eleusis, in order that on the one hand fish may be [abundant while on the other hand] the revenue 102 Ephraim Lytle owing to the etaaycoyta may amount to something considerable. I also wish to stop [wholesalers] and retailers [from profiteering], or eise that there be an indictment of them before the herald of the the Council of the Areopagus. That one should bring the case before the Areopagites, who should determine precisely what punishment he must suffer or fine he must pay. And all goods should be sold either by those originally procuring them or eise by those who first purchase from them. The appearance also of third-party buyers to resell the same goods increases prices. Inscribe this letter on a stele and place it before the Deigma in Piraeus. Farewell. [Erected] when T. Julius Herodian of Kollytos was epimelete of the city. An important crux resides in lines 4-5; Oliver translates: "in order that there may be a good supply of food and that the aid through imports may amount to a lot." Oliver interprets these clauses as relating solely to Eleusis. A uiv öe construction need not always convey an oppositional sense, but Oliver's translation, with the second clause amplifying the first, offers a certain redundancy that is not characteristic of Hadrian's normally direct Greek.6 More troublesome is the construction of etGaycoyta. Oliver translates the entire phrase xö öe ötd xd] etoaycoyLa öcpeXoc; as "aid through imports". Here Oliver's English, although admittedly ambiguous, appears to equate eiaaycovLa with 'imported goods'.7 But eioaycoytov is never otherwise attested in this sense.8 Lhe word does not occur in any literary source, and in epigraphic sources it seems to mean either an 'entrance-fee' or an 'import duty', with the latter sense securely attested in a number of papyri.9 Lhe 6 The brevity of Hadrian's administrative prose has been noted before; see e.g. P. J. Alexander, '¦Letters and Speeches of the Emperor Hadrian", HSPh 49 (1938) 141-177, at 149: "'It is true that in some of his literary works he used a more rhetorical style; but the Emperor drew a sharp line between literature and administration. The conciseness of his speech even borders on roughness [...]." 7 As suggested by his commentary, which makes no mention of revenues from import duties. The term is similarly translated as "imports" by H. Fries, Historische Inschriften zur römischen Kaiserzeit von Augustus bis Constantin (Darmstadt 1984) no. 89: "[...] so daß verbleibt [... damit der] Gewinn [durch] /
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