Translation Check - 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Query: 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Laum[1] (1924: p. 56) found it to stem from their sacred role as sacrificial animals, above all at group meals. He suggested that the term “obelos”—at first the instrument of sacrifice—symbolized the head of livestock, or in time its commutation payment in monetary form. Such contributions helped establish market values. Money thus did not begin as a means of barter, much less coinage. “The clan,” he asserted (1929[2]: p. 41), “divided the sacrifice as its most important political act.” He concluded that it would be wrong to follow Herodotus in tracing the idea of nomos (“law”) to the division of land
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- ↑ Bernhard Laum, Heiliges Geld: Eine historische Untersuchung Uber den sakralen Ursprung des Geldes (Tübingen: 1924), p. 56.
- ↑ Bernhard Laum, Über das Wesen des Munzgeldes: Eine sach und begbriffsgeschichtliche Studie (Halle: 1929), p. 41.
