ヘカトステー碑文再考 : 売却か賃貸借か
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The hekatostai inscriptions are a group of documents which were set up on the Akropolis to show the payment of a tax of 1% on some land transactions by territorial and religious bodies. What kind of land transactions were they? Andreyev and Lewis think the hekatostai inscriptions register the sale of land by these bodies to private persons. Therefore, Andreyev suggests that the prices in the inscriptions have an order : they are divisible by 12.5. This peculiarity of the figures has led to suggestions that a fixed price per plethron was being charged for the land (Andreyev), or that sale by auction at fixed intervals was involved (Lewis). Humphreys says that the prices of public land sold by auction in the inscriptions discussed by Lewis as all multiples of 12.5 dr. does not reflect a fixed price per stremma of land, but reveals the practice attested in Attic leases of computing the capital value of land at 12.5 times the annual rent. Osborne also accepts that the hekatostai inscriptions record leases and not sales. If this interpretation is right, what are the hekatoste and the prices in the inscriptions? In this paper, by re-examining the hekatostai inscriptions the author points out the following. (1)Andreyev's basic contention that all prices are divisible by 12.5 dr. is right. (2)The hekatostai inscriptions do record leases. In this case, the rent was 8% of the value of the property (the value of the property being itself calculated by multiplying the sum paid by 12.5). This would account for the periodicity of the figures given in the texts. (3)The τιμημα of Attica for eisphora-purposes in the 350s, which certainly included the property of territorial and religious bodies, was 6000 talants. Various inscriptions recording public leases mention the eisphora. Eisphorai were also levied on public property belonging to demes, Phratries, and Orgeones. The eisphora was levied on the τιμημα. The rate of levy was a hundredth of one τιμημα. The eisphorai were to be paid by bodies leasing land during 346/5〜306/5 B.C.. These points lead to the conclusion that the prices in the hekatostai inscriptions are τιμημα on the eisphora and the hekatostai in the inscriptions are sums which bodies leasing land paid to the state. If so, these inscriptions deal with the lease of land and with the levy of the Eisphora.
- 財団法人史学会の論文
- 1994-07-20
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