古典期アルカディアにおける家畜取引 : テゲア出土碑文IG.V.2.3の分析を中心に

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We would not run a big risk in regarding animal husbandry as one of the most important economic activities in Classical Arkadia, which, being climatically harsh and mountainous, was relatively poor in agricultural resources Actually, there are numerous references in Classical literature, especially in verse, to Arkadia "rich in flocks" (polumelos) and pasturerights were evidently so important that they were specifically included in honorific decrees of Arkadian cities Regarding these facts Roy recently hypothesised that pastoralism made a significant contribution to covering the cost of Arkadia's imports of lacking requisites such as metals, by permitting exports of wool and goat-hair or products made from them, skins or leather, cheese, and animals sold to be butchered He in this context focuses on roles played by large-scale market-oriented husbandry managed by wealthy flockowners In this paper we examine a Tegean inscription IG V 2 3 in the light of Roy's study This inscription has been much studied but almost never from such a viewpoint It allows evaluation of the significance of animal husbandry in the Arkadian economy in the Classical and Hellenistic periods We can extract from our study the following conclusions At about the turn of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, Tegean temple of Athena Alea was situated in a district that was included in the temple property Under the protection of the City, pasturage in this district was normally forbidden to private animals except during three days at an annual festival of Athena, when pastureland in Alea was opened to the public This exceptional measure was intended above all for animals both local and foreign coming in crowds to a panagorsis that formed a part of the festival, because this panagorsis was an important annual fair covering not only Arkadia but also surrounding lower districts such as Lakonia or Argolid It formed so to say a center of livestock trade in the southeastern Peloponnese There are therefore good reasons to see behind the exceptional measure allowing anyone to pasture in Alea at the festival interests of Tegean wealthy flockowners in marketing animals To sum up, the Tegean inscription IG V 2 3 is as yet exceptional evidence for the existence of a rather active trade in livestock between Arkadia and other districts as early as the middle Classical period, suggesting contributions of pastoralism to the foreign trade and indeed to the general economy of Classical and Hellenistic Arkadia
日本西洋古典学会の論文
2003-03-20

古典期アルカディアにおける家畜取引 : テゲア出土碑文IG.V.2.3の分析を中心に

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