Reserve fund
- "The Parthenon also had a function as treasury of the Delian League and a reserve fund. For example, every tributary town was supposed to send an ambassador to the Panathenaea and offer a cow and a panoply. This was again similar to the Persian example, because one of Persepolis' main functions was that of treasury. Both buildings, Apadana and Parthenon, were an empire's focus points of politics, religion, and finance, and it is possible that Athenian artists had learned from their older Ionian colleagues how the great king had invited his subjects to be his collaborators." Persian Influence on Greek architecture, Architecture: Parthenon frieze, All content copyright © 1995–2018 Livius.org. created in 2002; last modified on 25 November 2018.
- See also Athenian Finance and the Treasury of Athena, Loren J. Samons II, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 42, H. 2 (1993), pp. 129-138, Published by: Franz Steiner Verlag, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436281
- Thucydides and the Decrees of Kallias, Benjamin D. Meritt, Hesperia Supplements, Vol. 19, Studies in Attic Epigraphy, History and Topography. Presented to Eugene Vanderpool (1982), pp. 112-121, Published by: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, DOI: 10.2307/1353977, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1353977
The Contemporary Review, Volume 29, A. Strahan, 1877 - Literature
- The Archidamian War By Donald Kagan, Cornell University Press, 1990 - History - 392 pages. Writes in 1990 about "the great statue of Athena on the Acropolis" being melted down as a "reserve fund" to make coin to support the military efforts.
- This is repeated in 2013 book A New History of the Peloponnesian War By Donald Kagan, Cornell University Press, Jan 14, 2013 - History - 455 pages,