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Modern Description: Formerly called the Aeolic Treasury, in Marmaria, below the road, at Delphi. Fine Parian marble naiskos probably built ca. 510.
(395 BCE)
“Bad omens from Jupiter were observed after the capture of Veii. The soothsayers said that some religious duty had been neglected, and Camillus remembered that it had been forgotten to appropriate a tenth of the plunder to the god that had given the oracle concerning the lake. Accordingly the Senate decreed that those who had taken anything from Veii should make an estimate, each one for himself, and bring in a tenth of it under oath. Their religious feeling was such that they did not hesitate to add to the votive offering a tenth of the produce of the land that had already been sold, as well as of the spoils. With the money thus obtained they sent to Delphi a golden mixing bowl which stood on a base of bronze in the treasury of the Romans and Massilians until Onomarchus melted down the gold during the Phocian war. The base is still there. (Appian Italica fragment)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_of_the_Massaliots_(Delphi)
Wikidata ID: Q22936355

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