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Fees and Taxes in the Greek Cults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

F. Sokolowski
F. Sokolowski
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The cults in ancient Greece, both private and public, had many kinds of income, among which the most primitive were fees and taxes. Fees are remunerations paid for the use of various kinds of cult facilities. Taxes are contributions levied by the cult association or by the state to maintain the cult activities. When the cult becomes self-sufficient by endowments or by subsidies, fees and taxes do not play a great rôle. But in times of financial difficulties the state or the cult authorities levied taxes on all or some persons to meet the emergency. This paper is the result of an effort to collect and study all the information on this subject from our sources both literary and epigraphical.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 1954 , pp. 153 - 164
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1954

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References

Abbreviations. BCH = Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique; RÉG = Revue des Études Grecques; Syll.3 = Dittenberger, Sylloge3; LGS = Prott-Ziehen, Leges Graecorum Sacrae; SEG = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.

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11 IG I2, 313, III, 144–146.

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17 BCH, 1899, p. 587.

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19 Syll.3 1037.

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25 LGS 11,41.

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36 LGS II, 132, 10.

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47 Syll.3 1012.

48 Inschr. von Magn. 99, 12.

49 Cf.: SEG IX, 72, 16; Milet I, 7, n. 204.

50 LGS II, 41, 23. Syll.3 1096, 10.

51 LGS II, 46, 38.

52 LGS I, 27, D, 13 ff.

53 SEG V, 529, 17.

54 LGS II, 46, 47.

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59 Tebt. Pap. 209.

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68 IG I2, 127.

69 Hesperia 1936, p. 40. Cf. RÉG 1946–1947, p. 319.

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72 LGS II, 140.

73 LGS II, 137.

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75 LGS II, 139.

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84 Wilcken, Ostraca I, p. 146.

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86 Inscr. Lindos 419. Cf. RÉG 1942, p. 346, n. 112.