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The Rationes Centesimarum inscribed accounts of a 1 percent tax paid on salesof land by Attic corporate groups demes phratries etc. to individualAthenian citizens in the 4th century B.C. are an important source for thesocial and economic history o f classical Athens. Although some of thefragments have been known for over a century this book is the firstcomprehensive edition. In addition to a new fragment published here for thefirst time it contains revised texts of the 15 fragments already k nown basedon a fresh autopsy of the stones. This has resulted in many new readings and anew arrangement of the fragments into stelai. A translation in tabular form isfollowed by a textual and epigraphical commentary and full notes on the 150indivi duals and the 60 corporate groups mentioned in the records a number ofthem identified for the first time. Prosopographical analysis enables likelydates for the sales to be established to within a few years. This forms thebasis for a final discussion chapter which identifies the inscriptions asrecords of a centrally organised land sale programme probably attributable tothe leading Athenian financial administrator Lykourgos. «
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