Pages 37S5 THE ATHENIAN CALENDAR OF SACRIFICES A New Fragment from the

Presented here is the editioprinceps of a newfragment of the late-5th-century b.c. Athenian calendar of sacrifices. The fragment, Agora 17577, was discovered during excavations conducted in the Athenian Agora by the American School of Classical Studies. Inscribed on both faces (Face A: 403-399 b.c., Face B: 410-404 b.c.), it is associated with, but does not join, the group of fragments of Athenian legal inscriptions often referred to as the Law Code of Nikomachos. The text provides important additional evidence for the form of the calendar and the manner of its publication, and casts new light on broader issues of Athenian cult and topography. In the late 5th century b.c. a monumental change occurred in the presen tation of Athenian law, when the Athenians decided that it was time to scrutinize and reinscribe the laws of Solon.1 This work was commissioned in two stages, first from 410 to 404 b.c. under the democracy, and then again from 403 to 399 b.c., after the fall of the Thirty and the restoration of the democracy. Although the Athenians continued to attribute their laws to Solon, in modern scholarship the results of the republication are usually referred to as the "Law Code of Nikomachos, " so named for the editor (anagrapheus) Nikomachos, one of the officials chosen to work on the project, who was accused by Lysias of mishandling the publication.2 Included in the new code was a calendar of sacrifices. The purpose of such calendars was to record the deities and their intended offerings, the 1.1 would first like to thank John Camp, director of the Agora Excava tions, for introducing me to sacred law and giving me the opportunity to publish this fragment. Thanks are also due to other members of the Agora staff who aided in the completion o