TY - JOUR
TI - Documentary Contexts for the ‘Pistiros Inscription’
AU - Graininger, Denver
TI - Documentary Contexts for the ‘Pistiros Inscription’
AB - 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. 
VL - 2012
IS - Volume 19
PY - 2013
SN - 1897-3426
C1 - 2084-3909
SP - 99
EP - 110
DO - 10.4467/20843909EL.12.005.0746
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/electrum/article/documentary-contexts-for-the-pistiros-inscription
KW - Pistiros
KW - the Pistiros Inscription
KW - the Odrysian kings
KW - Kotys