[Agora Image] 2007.10.0031 (82-268)

Reconstruction of allotment machines based on actual kleroterion I 3967. Drawing by S. Dow ... Horizontal (normal) ... Reconstruction of allotment machines based on actual kleroterion I 3967.

[Agora Image] 2008.19.0035 (82-268)

Restored drawing of allotment machines. Based on actual kleroterion I 3967. Drawing by S. Dow ... Horizontal (normal) ... Restored drawing of allotment machines. Based on actual kleroterion I 3967.

[Agora Image] 2012.56.0283 (82-268)

Restored drawing of allotment machines. Based on actual kleroterion I 3967. Drawing by S. Dow ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Restored drawing of allotment machines. Based on actual kleroterion I 3967.

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Lawcourts

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Lawcourts Underlying the north end of the Stoa of Attalos are the slight remains of a group of buildings dating to the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. (Fig. 50). Largely open courtyards, they seem to have served ... "As Euboulos says in Olbia, you will find everything sold together in the same place at Athens -- figs, summoners, bunches of grapes, turnips, pears, apples, witnesses, roses, medlars, haggis, honeycombs, chickpeas, lawsuits, puddings, myrtle, allotment machines, lambs, waterclocks, laws, indictments."

[Agora Publication] AgoraPicBk 4 (1960): The Athenian Citizen Democracy in the Athenian Agora

Lang, M ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The artifacts and monuments of the Athenian Agora provide our best evidence for the workings of ancient democracy. As a concise introduction to these physical traces, this book has been a bestseller since ... 1960 2004 ... Selected inscriptions are illustrated and discussed, as are ingenious devices such as allotment machines and water clocks, which ensured fairness in the courts.

[Agora Webpage] Overview: The Museum

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The Museum On display in the public galleries of the stoa is a selection of the thousands of objects recovered in the past 75 years, reflecting the use of the area from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1500. The public ... This material includes ostraka (inscribed potsherds used as ballots to exile over-ambitious politicians), allotment machines and bronze identification tags (used in selecting an Athenian jury), and clay tokens and inscribed lead strips (used in the administration of the Athenian cavalry). ... Fragment of an allotment machine (kleroterion), probably used in the Council House (in the period when there were 12 tribes) for the selection of committees representing all the tribes except that holding the presidency.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Jury

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The Jury The jurors for each trial were chosen from a large body of citizens available for jury duty for the period of one year. At the beginning of the year, each juror was given a bronze pinakion, a ... ; and his deme: Kephisia. Allotment machine (kleroterion), third century B.C. The pinakia were used in kleroteria, allotment machines that assigned jurors to the courts. The procedure worked as follows: On the day a trial was to be held, the potential juror would appear before the magistrate in charge of the allotment who was stationed at one of these machines.

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 257, p. 247

Academy. Alphitopolis. Altars. Achaians. Acharnai. Altar of Aidos. Achilles. Altar of Aphrodite Hegemone. Acropolis. Altar of Apollo Patroos. Altar of Apollo Pythios. Altar of Apollo under several titles ... Agora 3 247 ... Allotment machines

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: Judiciary and Lawcourts

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Judiciary and Lawcourts The lawcourts of Athens, a city notorious throughout Greece for the litigiousness of her citizens, were both numerous and large. Several of these lawcourts were in the immediate ... Inside were found one small bronze ball probably used in the kleroterion, a device for the allotment of jurors to courts, and six jurors’ ballots (25). ... Bronze juror’s identification ticket (pinakion), inscribed with name, patronymic, and deme, fourth century B.C. 27. Allotment machine (kleroterion), third century B.C. 28. Restored drawing of allotment machines. The archon in charge, having learned how many courts were to be filled and wishing to fill his tribe’s quota of the total number of jurors, put into the funnels at the top of the kleroteria as many balls (white for the number to be allotted and the remainder black for those to be dismissed) as there were tickets in the shortest column.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Popular Courts

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The Popular Courts The popular courts, with juries of no fewer than 201 jurors and as many as 2,500, heard a variety of cases. The courts also had an important constitutional role in wielding ultimate ... Some certainly lay near the Agora and the association is ridiculed by the 4th century B.C. comic poet Euboulos: You will find everything sold together in the same place at Athens-figs, summoners, bunches of grapes, pears, apples, witnesses, roses, loquats, haggis, honeycombs, chickpeas, lawsuits, milk, myrtle, allotment machines, hyacinth, lambs, waterclocks, laws, indictments.

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: The Council and Magistrates

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The Council and the Magistrates Like selection for military service, allotment to the Council was organized according to the division by tribes; 50 members from each tribe acted as a unit in the Council ... In front of the price appears another figure, the sales tax, which averaged 1%. 18. Allotment tokens, 450–430 B.C. ... For election nothing more was needed than a show of hands, which leaves no material trace. For allotment to office, on the other hand, the machinery was sometimes simply a jar from which white and black beans could be drawn, but sometimes the large stone “machines” (kleroteria) also used in the lawcourts. Still another possible means of allotment is suggested by the small clay plaques, divided into two parts by a unique jigsaw cut through the tribe name (18).

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 14, s. 274, p. 249

The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Iakchos. The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Kerkopes; Agora. The Athenian ... Agora 14 249 ... The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Kleroteria; Allotment Machines

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 14, s. 268, p. 243

The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General. The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Abaton. The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; ... Agora 14 243 ... The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Index; General; Allotment Machines

[Agora Webpage] Publications: Picture Books

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Picture Books The Athenian Agora Picture Book series, started in 1951, aims to make information about life in the ancient commercial and political center of Athens available to a wide audience. Each booklet ... Selected inscriptions are illustrated and discussed, as are ingenious devices such as allotment machines and water clocks, which ensured fairness in the courts.