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or in a ship's deck,124 the walls of a house,125 a table top,'26 or a ceiling.'27 Since the
item sanis stands in our list without description it should probably be given its simplest
meaning of board or plank.
The price of the sanis was 2 drachmas 1 obol, 6 drachmas 1 obol, or 11 drachmas
1 obol. We have two comparative prices from nearly the same period in the Erechtheion
accounts of 407/6 B.C.: in both the price of sanides (totalling six) is given as
1 drachma each.128 In the former entry, the text includes the specification that the
accounts were to be inscribed on the tablets. From the fourth century there is detailed
information in the records of the temple at Eleusis: 129 an elm sanis 10 feet by 10
fingers by 3 fingers cost 14 drachmas; another 10 feet by '2 foot by one palm cost 13
drachmas 3 obols; one 16 feet by 3 palms by 6 fingers cost 20 drachmas 2 obols; one
9 feet by '2 foot by 1 palm cost 9 drachmas, and so on. In the Delian records of the
hieropoioi of the period 314-250 B.C., the purchase of sanides for tables, stands, etc.,
is several times mentioned. Sanides of lime wood sold at 5, 8, and 8' 2 drachmas
each,130 those of elm at 11X2 drachmas.13' Another entry refers simply to a plural
number of sanides at 12 drachmas.'32 Since the epigraphical evidence clearly shows
that the price of the sanis depended on the size and type of wood, the price in our
entry, where the word lacks a descriptive adjective, cannot be determined.
21. crKaXiL (II, 125). Hoe.133 This instrument is described by S. Dorigny in
Daremberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire, s.v. skapheion. Reference to skalis occurs in I.G.,
IIJ2 1424a, line 391; and 1548. For illustrations of ancient hoes, see Robinson, Olynthus,
X, pp. 343-344 and plate CVII.
22. cryltvtn (II, 130; III, 12). Hoe or mattock.'34 The instrument is described
with illustrations by E. Saglio, in Daremberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire, s.v. Bidens.135 For
references to more recent published illustrations of ancient hoes, see Robinson, Olyn-
122 Olynthus, VIII, p. 252.
123 J.H.S., XLVI, 1926, p. 181.
124
Euripides, Helen, 1556; Polybios, I, 22, 9; II, 5, 5.
125 Blumner, Technologie, IV, p. 437.
126 Insc. De'los, 1416 A, col. I, line 77.
127
Jnsc. Delos, 1417 A, col. I, line 73.
128
I.G., 12, 374, lines 190 and 281 (= Erechtheum, pp. 390 and 394; XVI, col. 1, lines 30-33
and XVII, col. II, lines 33-34).
129 I.G., II2, 1672, lines 151 ff.
130
I.G., XI, 2, 165, lines 4 and 32; 161 A, line 96.
131 I.G., XI, 2, 165, line 5.
132
I.G., XI, 2, 144 A, line 67. Cf. also 199 A, line 63 (40 drachmas), where, however, the entry
is incomplete.
133
See Buck, Dictionary, p. 501. Modern Greek ,aktSa, owaxtaT' p is a small weeding hoe.
134 See Buck, Dictionary, p. 501.
1 Cf. s.v. Sarculum, p. 1076.