Athenian Marble stele recording rules for repaying debts to temples and managing public and religious funds. (5th c. BCE) [812×607]
by RolePsychological890
Athenian Marble stele recording rules for repaying debts to temples and managing public and religious funds. (5th c. BCE) [812×607]
by RolePsychological890
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I always appreciate the invention of periods, commas and simple spaces in our modern texts, when encountering Greek or Roman.
You can’t tamper with what’s carved in stone, you can’t add to it, you can’t rewrite it, you can’t cross it out. The law was the law.
I can imagine how annoying it got, with all the visitors coming every single day and asking the same dumb questions, “okay! Fine! Let’s pay some artisan to make a huge dumb stele about all this noise, he could be making pretty columns or bas reliefs, but sure,’how do I pay back my wittle bitty temple debt?’ We’ll put that on the top of the list! Are you happy now!”