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occur in our poletai lists have been included. This table from the Attic Orators is
presented here because no similar detailed compilation occurs, to our knowledge, in the
bibliography on ancient house- and land-values. Similarly, in Table D is presented
like information about real estate sold by the poletai in the course of the fourth century
B.C., as preserved in epigraphical records, and in Table E similar sales from the socalled
Hekatostai records. Again only types of property are included which are
identical with the types in Table A.80
TABLE B:
PROPERTY ABROAD SOLD BY POLETAI
Sales Price Reference in
Type of Property in Drachmas Attic Stelai Location Ownet
Oikia & agros 950 + VI, 55-56 Thasos Adeimantos of Skambonidai
Oikia (with door) in - IV, 20-21 Euboea Nikides of Melite
chorion
? 310 VII, 78 Abydos -
Chorion VI, 133 Thasos
TABLE C:
PROPERTY IN ATTIC ORATORS
Sales Price
Type of Property in Drachmas Reference Location Trittys
Oikia 81 300- Isaios, II, 35
Oikia 4000 V, 26 Kerameikos City
Oikia 5000 V, 29 City
Oikia 4400 VI, 33 City
Oikia 2000 VIII, 35 Dionysion in City
Limnais
Oikia 1300 VIII, 35
Oikia 3000 XI, 42 Melite City
Oikia 500 XI, 42 Eleusis Coast
Oikia 2000 XI, 44 City
Oikia 2000 Aischines, I, 98 City
Oikia 3000 Demosthenes, XXVII, 10
Oikia 200 82 XXXI, 1 & 7
Oikia 1000 82 XLI, 6, 16 --
& 19
Oikia 700 82 LIX, 39 Statue of Hermes City
Psithyristes
Oikia & ge 5000+ Lysias, XIX, 42
Synoikia 10000 Demosthenes, XLV, 28
Synoikia 1600 83 LIII, 13
80
Mention may be made of the testimonia selecta in Robinson, Olynthus, XII, pp. 399-452,
which includes many passages referring in a general way to the value of the Greek house.
81
Reference is to an oikidion.
82
Amount of mortgage.
83
Amount of mortgage. Sandys and Paley (Demosthenes, Select Private Orations, I14, Cambridge,
1910) suggest that this synoikia was worth 10,000 drachmas, which seems unduly high.