The civic vocabulary of the Cretan city-states, 700 BCE–212 CE · 古代克里特之制度
Every institution the corpus tags, counted by mentions across all inscriptions. The kosmos — Crete’s distinctive chief magistracy — dominates, with the polis and its assembly close behind; then the machinery of inter-state relations (proxeny, envoys, treaties — syntheka) and of law (nomos, judges, manumission). A whole constitutional world in one island’s stones.
The corpus’s own subtypes: the magistracies and boards, the assemblies, the markers of social status and the public spaces where civic life happened.
Dated inscriptions by century. The record swells in the Hellenistic age and peaks in the 2nd century BCE — the great era of Cretan inter-polis treaties and the island’s federal experiments — then fades under Rome.