Perpetual Lease Contract from Olympia

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_8043
dc.title	Perpetual Lease Contract from Olympia
dc.contributor.author	Raggiunti Luca
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/axon/2022/1/contratto-di-affitto-perpetuo-da-olimpia/
dc.description.abstract	In the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, a bronze plate was found in early March 1879, which must have been affixed to a wall of the sanctuary, as the preserved corner holes show. The inscription is written in Elean dialect and can be dated on palaeographic grounds to the last quarter of the 5th century BC. It is a perpetual lease contract for a plot of land in Salmone. The interpretation of the document is problematic: the display of the bronze plate in Olympia and the perpetual duration of the lease are in fact a unicum in a contract that, in light of the linguistic data, is believed to have been concluded between two private individuals.
dc.relation.ispartof	Axon
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 6 \| Issue 1 \| June 2022
dc.issued	2022-06-20
dc.dateAccepted	2022-04-11
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-02-08
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2532-6848
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Axon/2532-6848/2022/01/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Alphioios
dc.subject	Elean dialect
dc.subject	Elis
dc.subject	Lease contract
dc.subject	Manasios
dc.subject	Olympia
dc.subject	Perpetual
dc.subject	Pisatis
dc.subject	Plethron
dc.subject	Salmone

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Luca Raggiunti Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

In the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, a bronze plate was found in early March 1879, which must have been affixed to a wall of the sanctuary, as the preserved corner holes show. The inscription is written in Elean dialect and can be dated on palaeographic grounds to the last quarter of the 5th century BC. It is a perpetual lease contract for a plot of land in Salmone. The interpretation of the document is problematic: the display of the bronze plate in Olympia and the perpetual duration of the lease are in fact a unicum in a contract that, in light of the linguistic data, is believed to have been concluded between two private individuals.

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June 20, 2022

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April 11, 2022

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Feb. 8, 2022

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Keywords: Lease contract • Perpetual • Manasios • Plethron • Elis • Salmone • Alphioios • Pisatis • Olympia • Elean dialect

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