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The CALENDAR of THORIKOS
Translation of the cult-calendar of the Athenian
deme ("parish" in older translations) Thorikos (which is near
Sounion/Sunium) from the early fourth century b.c.
Attached: Translated by J. Wickersham according to the transcription of the
Greek text and photgraph of the stone as published by G. Daux, L’Antiquité classique 52 [1983]:150-174). Names of the
months are printed in boldface (for modern equivalents, see next link).
Places where the stone is illegibly damaged are marked by an ellipsis ( ... ).
... in [the month]Hekatombaion
... and to the
... best to furnish
... drachma for each
5 ... on the day Prerosia
... at the Delphinion a goat
... to Hekate
...
... an adult victim, market
grade.
10 In Metageitnion: to Zeus Kataibates in
the sacred enclosure by the
Delphinion (sanctuary of Delphian Apollo) an adult
victim, market grade, for the
oath-taking of the auditing (of the magistrates).
In Boedromion, on
Prerosia: for Zeus Polieus a select
sheep; a select pig; women to
cry aloud;
15 a purchased pig for holocaust; the priest to
furnish lunch for the attendant;
for Kephalos
a select sheep; for Prokris
a trapeza;
for Thorikos a select sheep; for
the Heroines of Thorikos
a trapeza: at Sounion for
Poseidon a
20 select lamb; to Apollo a select billy-goat; to
Korotrophos a select pig; to
Demeter an adult
victim; to Zeus Herkeios an
adult victim; to Korotrophos a pig;
to Athena a market-sheep at the
seashore; to Poseidon
an adult victim, to Apollo a
pig.
25 In Pyanopsion: to Zeus Kataibates in the
district Philo-
melidai an adult victim, market
grade, on the 16th;
to Neanias an adult victim at
the feast of the Pyanopsia, ... for Poseidon.
In Maimakterion: for
Thorikos an ox of not
less than forty to fifty
drachmas;
30 for the Heroines of Thorikos a trapeza.
In Posideion: the
Dionysia (festival of Dionysos).
In Gamelion: to Hera, for
the Sacred Marriage ...
In Anthesterion: to
Dionysos, on the twelfth,
a goat with its first teeth, red
or black;
35 at the Diasia to Zeus Meilikhios a market-sheep.
In Elaphebolion: to
Herakles, a heifer and a sheep;
to Alkmene an adult victim; for
the Anakes an adult victim; for He-
lên an adult victim; for Demeter
on the day Khloia, a select
pregnant sheep; to Zeus, a
select lamb.
40 In Mounykhion: to Artemis Mounykhia an
adult
victim; at the sanctuary of
Pythian Apollo a trittoa;
to Ko-
rotrophos a pig, to Leto a goat,
to Artemis a
goat, to Apollo a goat with
first teeth, to De-
meter a pregnant sheep presented
as for the Antheia (festival of flowers), to
45 Philonis a trapeza, to Dionysos at
Mykenos (or Mykenon) a goat
red or black.
In Thargelion: for Zeus,
women to cry aloud, and a select
lamb; for Hyperpedios a sheep;
for the Heroines of Hyper-
pedios a trapeza; for
Nisos a sheep; for Thras ...
50 a sheep; for Sosineos a sheep; for Rhogios a
sheep; for Pylokhos
a pig; for the Heroines of
Pylokhos a trapeza.
In Skirophorion: a victim
for the swearing of oaths;
at the Plynteria for Athena, a
select sheep; for Aglau-
ros a sheep; for Athena, a
select lamb; for Kepha-
55 los an ox of forty to fifty
drachmas; for Poseidon
a sheep; the auditor and his
council are to swear
"I shall audit the office
which the lot has given me
to audit according to the
decrees upon which
60 the office has been established"; to swear
by Zeus, Apollo, and Demeter
an imprecation of destruction;
the councillors
to swear the same; to inscribe
the oath
on a stele and erect it next to
the Delphinion;
all offices elected are to be
65 subject to audit, without any exception.
A trapeza
was a tray of (probably) non-bloody offerings. [back]
A trittoa
was an offering of three different adult animals. [back]