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Documentary Contexts for the ‘Pistiros Inscription’

Publication date: 22.01.2013

ELECTRUM, 2012, Volume 19, pp. 99 - 110

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843909EL.12.005.0746

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Denver Graininger
University of California
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Documentary Contexts for the ‘Pistiros Inscription’

Abstract

This preliminary study of the so-called ‘Pistiros Inscription’ challenges the dominant interpretation of the document that has crystallized in the years since its preliminary publication, namely, that the inscription somehow guarantees the rights of traders operating within Pistiros. A reexamination of the rhetorical structure of the inscription and a reconstruction of the inscription’s relationship with preexisting documents on this subject, which are not extant, raises the possibility that the function of the inscription was somewhat different than the communis opinio: the Pistiros Inscription appears to have supplemented earlier regulation concerning Pistiros and to have attempted to limit the authority of an official, possibly a Thracian royal, who exercised dramatic power within Pistiros.
 

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Information: ELECTRUM, 2012, Volume 19, pp. 99 - 110

Article type: Original article

Authors

University of California

Published at: 22.01.2013

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Denver Graininger (Author) - 100%

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