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 "archive" (archeion or administrative offices).

There are several references to the portico of the archive or archives or of the logisterion and to its use for publishing documents by inscription, but of course all public colonnades were suitable for such purpose and it is generally uncertain whether "archive" here means the administrative offices or an archival building.

The archivists were known as Keepers, Superintendents, or Secretaries of the public documents, laws, writings and later of the charters and very commonly of "books."

By the time of Alexander there were doubtless central as well as departmental archives in all the cities of Greece—in Sparta certainly. Nearly a score of such early or late are known by mention in inscription and literature—exclusive of the many archives of Greek documents known by name in Egypt in later times and not