Erechtheis

[3] Although there is little specific reference to the tribe, an inscription dated to either 460 or 459BC in the form of a casualty list allows a little access.

Two generals are listed for the single year on which the text insists,[4] Ph[ryni]chos is followed in the list by Hippodamas, possibly indicating that he succeeded the former in the summer due to the death of Ph[ryni]chos.

[5] The presence of a seer on the list is surprising, as their role of accompanying the army to interpret omens through the analysis of the entrails of sacrificed animals does not seem particularly dangerous.

[4] Despite the use of personal names on the list, the repetitions means that the absence of patronymics prevent the identification of the individual and family referred to in each case.

This deprivation of social status could be an example of democratic intentions, but it also does something to lessen the personal impact of the list, perhaps through an attempt to prevent social discord which would have resulted from the realisation of the impact on individual families and communities.

[4] If the inscription had been divided into the fourteen demes, the exact effect of the losses on individual villages would have been much clearer.

Despite the removal of the obvious social status of family associations, names themselves can be used to infer certain things.

[7][8] It is probable that the district of Agrae located south of the Ilisos river, belonged to one of these demoi.

Map of ancient Attica . Trittyes belonging to the phyle of Erechtheis are numbered "1" and shaded brown.
War memorial for men of the Erechtheis, 460–459 BC. The inscription reads: “Of the Erechteid Tribe, died at war in Cyprus , in Phoenicia , at Halieis , at Egina , at Megara , the same year.’ Follows a list of 170 dead, among whom are two strategoi and a soothsayer .