CGRN 102

Decree of the orgeones of the hero Echelos and the heroines at Athens

Date :

early 3rd century BC

Justification: letterforms (Meritt).

Provenance

Athens . Found on the north slope of the Areiopagos and now in the Stoa of Attalos (inv. no. 1 1906).

Support

Damaged upper part of a stele of Hymettian marble, broken below and at both upper corners. The sides are partly preserved.

  • Height: 29.3 cm
  • Width: 31.5 cm
  • Depth: 8.2 cm

Layout

The inscription is non-stoichedon. The same letters have different forms throughout the inscription, making it difficult to assess the available space in lacunas.

Letters: 0.8 cm high

Bibliography

Edition here based on Meritt 1942: 282-287 no. 55 (except line 20, cf. Commentary).

Cf. also: Woodhead Agora XVI 161; Sokolowski LSS 20; AIO .

Further bibliography: Dow 1944: 135-136; Ferguson 1944: 74-79; Ferguson 1949: 130-131; Kearns 1989: 165; Ekroth 2011: 137-141.

Text


[Λυσίας Περι]άνδρου Πλωθεὺς εἶ[πεν· ἀγαθεῖ τύχει]
[δεδόχθαι] τοῖς ὀ[ρ]γεῶσιν· ὅπως ἂν δι[ατηρῆται τῶν]
[θυσιῶν ἡ κοινω]νία εἰς τὸν ἅπαντα χρό[νον τῶι κοι]-
[ν]ῶι τῶι πρὸς τοῖς Καλλιφάνους καὶ τῶ[ι τοῦ ἥρωος Ἐ]-
5χέλου, ἀναγράψαντας τοὺς ὀφείλοντά̣[ς τι εἰς τὴν κοι]-
νωνίαν ἐν στήλει λιθίνει στῆσαι παρὰ τ[ὸν βωμὸν]
ἐν τῶι ἱερῶι τά τε κεφάλαια καὶ τὸν τόκο[ν ὁπόσου]
ἂν ἔχει ἕκαστος· ἀναγράψαι δὲ καὶ τὰ ψη[φίσματα]
τὰ ἀρχαῖα εἰς τὴν στήλην· ἐπιμεληθῆναι δ[ὲ ....8....]-
10 να τῆς ἀναγραφῆς καὶ τῆς στάσεως τῆς στήλης κ[αὶ λο]-
γίσ[α]σθαι ὅ τι ἂν εἰς ταῦτα ἀναλώσει τῶι κοινῶι.
ἔδοξεν τοῖς ὀργεῶσιν· τὸν ἑστιάτορα θύειν τὴν [θυσί]-
αν μηνὸς Ἑκατονβαιῶνος ἑβδόμει καὶ ὀγδόει ἐπ[ὶ] δ-
έκα· θύειν δὲ τεῖ πρώτει ταῖς ἡρωίναις χοῖρον, τῶι δὲ [ἥ]-
15[ρ]ω̣ι ἱερεῖον τέλεον καὶ τράπεζαν παρατιθέναι, τεῖ δ[ὲ]
[ὑστερ]άαι τῶι ἥρωι ἱερεῖον τέλεον· λογίζεσθαι δὲ ὅ τι ἂν
[ἀναλ]ώσει· ἀναλίσκειν δὲ μὴ πλέον τῆς προσόδου· [ν]-
[εμέτω] δὲ τὰ κρέα τοῖς {οις} ὀργεῶσι τοῖς παροῦσι καὶ τοῖ[ς]
[ὑοῖς τὴν] εἰς ἡμίσεαν καὶ ταῖς γυναιξὶ ταῖς τῶν ὀργεώ[ν]-
20[ων, διδ]οὺς ταῖς ἐλευθέραις τὴν ἰσαίαν καὶ ταῖς θυγ[α]-
[τράσι τὴν εἰς ἡμί]σεαν καὶ ἀκολούθωι μιᾶι τὴν εἰς ἡμ[ί]-
[σεαν· παραδιδότω δὲ τ]ῶι ἀνδρὶ τῆς γυναικὸς τὴν με-
[ρίδα. vacat ] vacat
[ἔδοξεν τοῖς ὀργεῶσιν· τὸν ἑστιά]τορα τῶν ἐπιγ̣ενομέ-
25[νων ..?..]
[..?..]

Translation

[Lysias son of Periandros] spoke. [With good fortune, may it be decided] by the orgeones: so that the community [of sacrifices is maintained] for all times, [by the association] at the property of Kalliphanes and the one of the hero (5) Echelos, to record in stone the debitors to the association and set up the stone besides [the altar] in the sanctuary, (recording) both the sums and the interest, [the amount] each owes. To record also the old decrees on the stone. And [...] should take care (10) of the engraving and setting up of the stele, and should calculate what he spends on this on behalf of the association.

The orgeones decided. The hestiator is to make the sacrifice on the 17th and the 18th of the month Hekatombaion. He is to sacrifice on the first day a piglet to the heroines, and to the hero (15) an adult animal and to set up a table, and on the next day (he is to offer) an adult animal to the hero. He is to calculate his expenditures. He should not spend more than the income. He is to [distribute] the meat to the orgeones who are present (a portion), and to [their sons] up to half a portion; and to the women of the orgeones, (20) giving to free women the same to the daughters up to half a portion and to one female servant up to half a portion. He [must give] to the man the portion of the woman.

[The orgeones decided:] the hestiator [...] of the accruing interest [...]

Traduction

[Lysias], fils de Périandre, a fait la proposition. [À la bonne fortune, qu'il plaise] aux orgéons : afin que la communauté [des sacrifices soit maintenue] pour le reste du temps par l'association de chez Kalliphanès et celle du héros (5) Echelos, inscrivant les débiteurs de l'association sur une stèle de pierre, qu'on l'élève près [de l'autel] dans le sanctuaire avec les sommes et l'intérêt [selon ce que] chacun doit. Que l'on inscrive aussi les anciens décrets sur la stèle. Et [...] prenne soin (10) de la gravure et de l'installation de la stèle, et compte ce qu'il aura dépensé à cette fin pour l'association.

Il a plu aux orgéons que l'hestiator accomplisse le sacrifice du mois d'Hekatombaion, le 17 et le 18. Qu'il sacrifie le premier jour un porcelet aux héroïnes, et au héros (15) un animal adulte, et qu'il dresse une table; le jour suivant (qu'il sacrifie) au héros un animal adulte. Qu'il compte ce qu'il aura dépensé; qu'il ne dépense pas davantage que les rentrées. Qu'il [distribue] les viandes aux orgéons présents et à [leurs fils] jusqu'à une demi-portion, et aux femmes des orgéons, (20) donnant aux femmes libres la même part et aux filles jusqu'à une demi-portion, et à une servante jusqu'à une demi-portion. Que l'on remette à l'homme la part de la femme.

[Il a plu aux orgéons] que l'hestiator [...] de l'intérêt augmenté [...]

Commentary

This inscription consists of three parts. Lines 1-11 are a decree passed by a group of orgeones in the first half of the 3rd century, marking the decision to record in stone debitors and "the ancient decrees" (i.e. the present inscription). Two "ancient decrees" follow (possibly from the mid-5th century, cf. Ferguson 1944: 76), the first being preserved in full (lines 12-23) and prescribing sacrifices to the "hero and heroines" and meat distributions, while we only have the first line of the other one (line 24).

The text is our oldest evidence for Attic associations that were referred to as 'orgeones', grouped by Ferguson (1944) into two classes. Type A, as we have here, would be a citizen group worshipping a hero in and around the asty (cf. e.g. the findspot of this inscription). Type B, by contrast, would be an association which may include non-citizens and honours foreign deities in or about the Piraeus. The orgeones were adult males, but were accompanied by their wives, children and servants in the context of the sacrifices (as is evident from lines 18-21).

According to the hypothesis of Meritt, this particular group of orgeones seems to have consisted of two separate associations (κοινά), namely the κοινόν "of the hero Echelos", and the one worshipping the heroines "at the property of Kalliphanes" (on the hero Echelos, see Kearns, with further references). These associations had joined forces to have a community of sacrifices (κοινωνία θυσιῶν) for all time to come. The hero gave his name to this district; as Meritt describes in detail, various monuments—among which a relief with the inscribed name Echelos—have been discovered on this location. Given the find spot of the inscription, the joint sacrifices were most probably organized in a sanctuary near the locale of Kalliphanes, the meeting place of the other group who worshipped the heroines (cf. references in Ferguson, 1944: 74 n. 15).

Lines 12-23: This "ancient decree" prescribes two sacrifices made by the joint group. The unnamed hero of the second decree may be identified with Echelos, whose name is mentioned in lines 4-5 of the first decree. Thus, one should sacrifice a piglet to the heroines and an adult animal and a prepared table for Echelos on the 17th of Hekatombaion, and then an adult animal for Echelos on the day after. Ekroth, following Van Straten and Rosivach, has argued that the adult animal is a sheep (cf. Ekroth, p. 138 n. 40, for the references)

Line 12: The office of ἑστιάτωρ seems to have been a liturgy, rotating among the orgeones (Ferguson 1944: 78).

Line 15: The τράπεζα refers to a table prepared with offerings. Preparing the table "could be seen as an action aimed at inviting the hero to come and participate in the sacrifice as an honoured guest" (Ekroth, p. 137). These "could consist of one or several portions of the meat from the thysia victim ... or of other kinds of foods, as well as perhaps vessels and crowns" (ibid.). From the sacrificial calendar from Marathon, in which heroes receive a thysia of a certain price as well as a trapeza of a certain price, we know that the table-offerings were separate, even though one could place portions of the animal on the table (Ekroth, p. 138). In most cases of hero-cults, the theoxenia and the thysia sacrifice go together. On theoxenia, cf. CGRN 13 (Selinous), Face A, lines 14-15.

Lines 17-23: The information about distribution of portions to ordinary participants (as opposed to individuals who received honorary parts) in this decree is unusually specific. Compare other Athenian inscriptions in this Collection that discuss the distribution of meat after the sacrifice to the participants, but in less detail: CGRN 19, lines 19-21, and CGRN 92, lines 16-17: τὰ δὲ ἄλλα κρέα Ἀθηναίο|[ις μερίζειν].

Lines 20-23: The restoration of the gap at the beginning of line 20 has provoked much discussion (particularly since this section relates to the role of women in the sacrifice and meat-distribution, on which cf. CGRN 33, Elateia, Commentary). It is difficult to assess the available space in the lacuna. According to Dow, we should assume 5 to max. 7 letterspaces. On the basis of this, the solution suggested by Meritt in the editio princeps, ὀργεώ[ν|ων μετ’ αὐτ]ους was dismissed as too long. Moreover, the order of listing the recipients of portions is ordinarily the order of apportioning, so that need not be further specified. Instead, Ferguson's suggestion (1944) ὀργεώ[ν|ων, ἄν ἦι β]ους (6.5 spaces), and accepted by Goff, makes the distributions of meat to the women contingent on the size of the sacrifice: the women only received a portion when the animal is an ox (p. 74-75 n. 16). Later, Ferguson (1949) adopted a solution that Meritt had asked him to publish on his behalf: ὀργεώ[ν|ων, διδ]ούς. We adopt this restoration here. As Ferguson points out, it is quite elegant—the participle merely announces the breaking up of the general category (women of the orgeones) in line 19 into the various sub-categories specified in the next lines. These give detailed information on the apportionment of meat to different groups of women: free women (wives, widows and spinsters), (younger unmarried) daughters, and one female servant. The group seems not to have been poor, as we can tell from the restriction of the meat-distribution to only one female servant (ἀκολούθωι μιᾶι, line 21). Apparently, wealthy families with two or more servants were expected to turn up (Ferguson 1944: 79).

Lines 24-25: The very fragmentary beginning of the second ancient decree may suggest a financial subject matter, but we cannot be certain.

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Authors

  • Jan-Mathieu Carbon
  • Saskia Peels
  • Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

How To Cite

Brief citation of the Greek text : CGRN 102, lines x-x.

Reference to the file as a critical study of the inscription : Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels et Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, "CGRN 102: Decree of the orgeones of the hero Echelos and the heroines at Athens", in Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), 2017-, consulted on December 21, 2024. URL: http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/file/102/; DOI: https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN102.

Full citation of the CGRN in a list of abbreviations or a bibliography is the following : Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels-Matthey, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), 2017-, consulted on December 21, 2024. URL: http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be; DOI: https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN0. 

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	    			<p> Edition here based on <bibl type="author_date" n="Meritt 1942">Meritt 1942</bibl>: 282-287 no. 55 (except line 20, cf. Commentary).
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	    			<p> Cf. also: 
	    				Woodhead <bibl type="abbr" n="Agora XVI">Agora XVI</bibl> 161; 
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	    			<p> Further bibliography: 
	    				<bibl type="author_date" n="Dow 1944">Dow 1944</bibl>: 135-136;
	    				<bibl type="author_date" n="Ferguson 1944">Ferguson 1944</bibl>: 74-79;
	    				<bibl type="author_date" n="Ferguson 1949">Ferguson 1949</bibl>: 130-131;
	    				<bibl type="author_date" n="Kearns 1989">Kearns 1989</bibl>: 165;
	    				<bibl type="author_date" n="Ekroth 2011">Ekroth 2011</bibl>: 137-141.
	    				
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					<head>Translation</head>
					
<p> [Lysias son of Periandros] spoke. [With good fortune, may it be decided] by the orgeones: so that the community [of sacrifices is maintained] for all times, [by the association] at the property of Kalliphanes and the one of the hero (5) Echelos, to record in stone the debitors to the association and set up the stone besides [the altar] in the sanctuary, (recording) both the sums and the interest, [the amount] each owes. To record also the old decrees on the stone. And [...] should take care (10) of the engraving and setting up of the stele, and should calculate what he spends on this on behalf of the association.</p>                        
					
<p> The orgeones decided. The <foreign>hestiator</foreign> is to make the sacrifice on the 17th and the 18th of the month Hekatombaion. He is to sacrifice on the first day a piglet to the heroines, and to the hero (15) an adult animal and to set up a table, and on the next day (he is to offer) an adult animal to the hero. He is to calculate his expenditures. He should not spend more than the income. He is to [distribute] the meat to the orgeones who are present (a portion), and to [their sons] up to half a portion; and to the women of the orgeones, (20) giving to free women the same to the daughters up to half a portion and to one female servant up to half a portion. He [must give] to the man the portion of the woman.</p>              	
					
<p> [The orgeones decided:] the <foreign>hestiator</foreign> [...] of the accruing interest [...] </p>
					
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					<head>Traduction</head>
					
<p>[Lysias], fils de Périandre, a fait la proposition. [À la bonne fortune, qu'il plaise] aux orgéons : afin que la communauté [des sacrifices soit maintenue] pour le reste du temps par l'association de chez Kalliphanès et celle du héros (5) Echelos, inscrivant les débiteurs de l'association sur une stèle de pierre, qu'on l'élève près [de l'autel] dans le sanctuaire avec les sommes et l'intérêt [selon ce que] chacun doit. Que l'on inscrive aussi les anciens décrets sur la stèle. Et [...] prenne soin (10) de la gravure et de l'installation de la stèle, et compte ce qu'il aura dépensé à cette fin pour l'association. </p>
					
<p>Il a plu aux orgéons que l'<foreign>hestiator</foreign> accomplisse le sacrifice du mois d'Hekatombaion, le 17 et le 18. Qu'il sacrifie le premier jour un porcelet aux héroïnes, et au héros (15) un animal adulte, et qu'il dresse une table; le jour suivant (qu'il sacrifie) au héros un animal adulte. Qu'il compte ce qu'il aura dépensé; qu'il ne dépense pas davantage que les rentrées. Qu'il [distribue] les viandes aux orgéons présents et à [leurs fils] jusqu'à une demi-portion, et aux femmes des orgéons, (20) donnant aux femmes libres la même part et aux filles jusqu'à une demi-portion, et à une servante jusqu'à une demi-portion. Que l'on remette à l'homme la part de la femme. </p>
					
<p>[Il a plu aux orgéons] que l'<foreign>hestiator</foreign> [...] de l'intérêt augmenté [...]</p>
					
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						<head>Commentary</head>    

<p> This inscription consists of three parts. Lines 1-11 are a decree passed by a group of orgeones in the first half of the 3rd century, marking the decision to record in stone debitors and "the ancient decrees" (i.e. the present inscription). Two "ancient decrees" follow (possibly from the mid-5th century, cf. Ferguson 1944: 76), the first being preserved in full (lines 12-23) and prescribing sacrifices to the "hero and heroines" and meat distributions, while we only have the first line of the other one (line 24).</p>
						
<p> The text is our oldest evidence for Attic associations that were referred to as 'orgeones', grouped by Ferguson (1944) into two classes. Type A, as we have here, would be a citizen group worshipping a hero in and around the <foreign>asty</foreign> (cf. e.g. the findspot of this inscription). Type B, by contrast, would be an association which may include non-citizens and honours foreign deities in or about the Piraeus. The orgeones were adult males, but were accompanied by their wives, children and servants in the context of the sacrifices (as is evident from lines 18-21).</p>
						
<p> According to the hypothesis of Meritt, this particular group of orgeones seems to have consisted of two separate associations (κοινά), namely the κοινόν "of the hero Echelos", and the one worshipping the heroines "at the property of Kalliphanes" (on the hero Echelos, see Kearns, with further references). These associations had joined forces to have a community of sacrifices (κοινωνία θυσιῶν) for all time to come. The hero gave his name to this district; as Meritt describes in detail, various monuments—among which a relief with the inscribed name Echelos—have been discovered on this location. Given the find spot of the inscription, the joint sacrifices were most probably organized in a sanctuary near the locale of Kalliphanes, the meeting place of the other group who worshipped the heroines (cf. references in Ferguson, 1944: 74 n. 15).</p>
											
<p> Lines 12-23: This "ancient decree" prescribes two sacrifices made by the joint group. The unnamed hero of the second decree may be identified with Echelos, whose name is mentioned in lines 4-5 of the first decree. Thus, one should sacrifice a piglet to the heroines and an adult animal and a prepared table for Echelos on the 17th of Hekatombaion, and then an adult animal for Echelos on the day after. Ekroth, following Van Straten and Rosivach, has argued that the adult animal is a sheep (cf. Ekroth, p. 138 n. 40, for the references)</p>
						
<p> Line 12: The office of ἑστιάτωρ seems to have been a liturgy, rotating among the orgeones (Ferguson 1944: 78).</p>
						
<p> Line 15: The τράπεζα refers to a table prepared with offerings. Preparing the table "could be seen as an action aimed at inviting the hero to come and participate in the sacrifice as an honoured guest" (Ekroth, p. 137). These "could consist of one or several portions of the meat from the <foreign>thysia</foreign> victim ... or of other kinds of foods, as well as perhaps vessels and crowns" (ibid.). From the sacrificial calendar from Marathon, in which heroes receive a <foreign>thysia</foreign> of a certain price as well as a <foreign>trapeza</foreign> of a certain price, we know that the table-offerings were separate, even though one could place portions of the animal on the table (Ekroth, p. 138). In most cases of hero-cults, the <foreign>theoxenia</foreign> and the <foreign>thysia</foreign> sacrifice go together. On <foreign>theoxenia</foreign>, cf. <ref target="http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/CGRN_13/">CGRN 13</ref> (Selinous), Face A, lines 14-15.</p>
							
<p> Lines 17-23: The information about distribution of portions to ordinary participants (as opposed to individuals who received honorary parts) in this decree is unusually specific. Compare other Athenian inscriptions in this Collection that discuss the distribution of meat after the sacrifice to the participants, but in less detail: <ref target="http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/CGRN_19/">CGRN 19</ref>, lines 19-21, and <ref target="http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/CGRN_92/">CGRN 92</ref>, lines 16-17: τὰ δὲ ἄλλα κρέα Ἀθηναίο|[ις μερίζειν].</p>
						
<p> Lines 20-23: The restoration of the gap at the beginning of line 20 has provoked much discussion (particularly since this section relates to the role of women in the sacrifice and meat-distribution, on which cf. <ref target="http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/CGRN_33">CGRN 33</ref>, Elateia, Commentary). It is difficult to assess the available space in the lacuna. According to Dow, we should assume 5 to max. 7 letterspaces. On the basis of this, the solution suggested by Meritt in the <foreign>editio princeps</foreign>, ὀργεώ[ν|ων μετ’ αὐτ]ους was dismissed as too long. Moreover, the order of listing the recipients of portions is ordinarily the order of apportioning, so that need not be further specified. Instead, Ferguson's suggestion (1944) ὀργεώ[ν|ων, ἄν ἦι β]ους (6.5 spaces), and accepted by Goff, makes the distributions of meat to the women contingent on the size of the sacrifice: the women only received a portion when the animal is an ox (p. 74-75 n. 16). Later, Ferguson (1949) adopted a solution that Meritt had asked him to publish on his behalf: ὀργεώ[ν|ων, διδ]ούς. We adopt this restoration here. As Ferguson points out, it is quite elegant—the participle merely announces the breaking up of the general category (women of the orgeones) in line 19 into the various sub-categories specified in the next lines. These give detailed information on the apportionment of meat to different groups of women: free women (wives, widows and spinsters), (younger unmarried) daughters, and one female servant. The group seems not to have been poor, as we can tell from the restriction of the meat-distribution to only one female servant (ἀκολούθωι μιᾶι, line 21). Apparently, wealthy families with two or more servants were expected to turn up (Ferguson 1944: 79).</p>
						
<p> Lines 24-25: The very fragmentary beginning of the second ancient decree may suggest a financial subject matter, but we cannot be certain.</p>

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