• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: ‘On orderliness with respect to the prizes of war’: the Amphipolis regulation and the management of booty in the army of the last Antigonids
  • Beteiligte: Juhel, Pierre
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2002
  • Erschienen in: The Annual of the British School at Athens
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0068245400017445
  • ISSN: 0068-2454; 2045-2403
  • Schlagwörter: Archeology ; Visual Arts and Performing Arts ; History ; Archeology ; Classics
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>The Amphipolis regulation (Amphipolis Museum, L 905 and L 908) reveals numerous clauses ruling the life of the Macedonian army, in the camp and in the field, at the time of the last Antigonids. The second paragraph of first column of fragment B (L 908) is devoted particularly to the management of booty. Study of literary sources (mainly Polybius) permits greater precision of the historical context and a new epigraphical interpretation. All the booty collected by the troops was to be returned to the King. The troops were under strict orders to deliver the whole booty to him under threat of heavy fines for their <jats:italic>hegemones</jats:italic>.</jats:p>