Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission InscriptionsIn Taxing Freedom Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz examines manumission inscriptions from Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, which record payments made to the poleis by manumitted slaves. In this original study the author explores the purpose of and the motivation behind these payments, apparently exacted as a federal impost, and places them in a wider historical and economic context. Based on a close examination of the epigraphic and literary evidence, Taxing Freedom offers important insights into the nature and extent of slavery and manumission in Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, the Thessalian fiscal machinery, and the ways by which Thessalian poleis intervened in the economic life of their citizens to secure revenues. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One Taxation and Slavery | 15 |
Chapter Two The Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions | 29 |
Chapter Three Manumission Tax or Publication Fee? | 55 |
Chapter Four Evidence from Other Places | 71 |
Chapter Five The Historical and Economic Background | 109 |
Conclusions | 133 |
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Appendix The Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions | 151 |
Index Locorum | 157 |
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Common terms and phrases
Achaia Athens attested Azoros Babacos Bouchon chalkoi Chapter Darmezin dated decree dedication Delphi Demetrias drachmai e.g. IG evidence extant federal fifteen staters Flamininus freed slaves Gonnoi Gortyn Graninger 2011 Greek Habicht half denarii Helly Hypata IG IX(2 imposed inscribed Krannon Larisa Larsen levy lines lytron Macedonian Magnelli manumission acts manumission documents manumission records manumission tax manumitted slaves manumittors mention payments metics Meyer Orchomenos paid the polis paramone payment in denarii Pelasgiotis Penestai Perrhaibia Pharsalos Phthiotis poleis Pythion reign of Augustus revenues Roman period second century BC seems Skotoussa slaves who paid stele stone strategos suggests tax collector Thessalian cities Thessalian League Thessalian manumission inscriptions Thessalian poleis Thessaly third century BC Third Macedonian War treasurer twenty-two undated vicesima libertatis xenodokoi ἀπὸ δὲ εἰς ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ κατὰ οἱ τὰ τὰν τᾶς τῇ πόλει τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῶν ὑπὸ