[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