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 Ix THUCYDIDES ' of the sacred treasure of Athene, Eurcctes of Atene and ' his colleagues, to whom Apollodorus the son of Critias 'of Aphidnae was registrar, handed over to the stewards 'to whom Diognis the son of Isander of the Piraeus ' was registrar ; having received them from the previous 'stewards to whom Euthias son of Aeschron of Anaphlys- 'tus was registrar.' 'In the Pronaos.'— (C. I. A. 119.) — Then follow the actual inventories. In the first year however of each Panathenaic period the treasures are said to be handed over to the stewards of the year by 'the officers of the four preceding years, who gave in their accounts from one Panathenaea to the next.' During the twentj' or thirty years over which the lists extend they graduall}' increase in length (in the language of the inscriptions, cTreVeia cTreyeVero — 'these are additions of the year ') until the final collapse. They are silent witnesses to the growth, decline, and fall of the first Athenian empire, the last record of the treasures of the Hecatompedon appearing in a fragment which is assigned on palaeographical and other grounds to a year subse- quent to 405 B. c' The inventories reappear a few years later, though the form of them is different ; only a few of the articles previously mentioned are found, and many of those catalogued are described as 'out of repair.' The treasures consisted of gold and silver plate, bowls, cups, crowns, horns, couches, tables, chairs, censers, baskets, of gilded and golden as well as of silver and plated articles, and of arms. We find among them a gilded lyre, four ivory lyres, a flute case, a 'figure of a girl upon a pillar,' a 'horse, a griffin, the face (or fore- part) of a griffin, a griffin, the head of a lion, a necklace (or wreath) of flowers, a dragon ; all overlaid with gold.' on p. 55.
 * See C. 1 A. i. p. 72 b, partly corrected by C. I. A. iv. Suppl. i. p. 20, n.