FINANCIAL RESOURCES HOARDED IN GREEK SANCTUARIES. THE IMPACT OF MONETIZATION

The paper means to be the first attempt to analyze sacred resources’ origin, placement and deployment in Archaic and Classical age and the impact of monetization on financial resources kept inside the sacred area. In fact, money introduction widely affected the sanctuary administration, entailing the necessity to identify strategies to measure and quantify preserved precious items. Such items composed a huge financial deposit, that finally acted as an actual State treasury requiring a coherent organizational system.