Several of the treasuries can be identified, among them the Siphnian Treasury, dedicated by the city of Siphnos whose citizens gave a tithe of the yield from their gold mines until the mines came to an abrupt end when the sea flooded the workings.

The museum houses an impressive collection associated with ancient Delphi, including the earliest known notation of a melody, the famous Charioteer, golden treasures discovered beneath the Sacred Way, and fragments of reliefs from the Siphnian Treasury.

* c. 530 BC — 525 BC — Siphnian Treasury, Delphi, is built.

* c. 530 BC — 525 BC — Battle between the Gods and the Giants, fragments of the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, from the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is made.

It is now suggested that the north ( and perhaps also the east ) frieze of the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was the work of Bupalus, based on a partially erased inscription around the circumference of one of the giant's shields, reconstructed as:

The term treasury was first used in Classical times to describe the votive buildings erected to house gifts to the gods, such as the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi or many similar buildings erected in Olympia, Greece by competing city-states to impress others during the ancient Olympic Games.

The characteristics of this group can be observed on the Siphnian Treasury which is dated on external evidence before 525 BC, therefore allowing time for the maturation of the style we can date the beginning of this group to, roughly, a generation prior.

The Treasuries at Olympia and Delphi ( including the Athenian Treasury and Siphnian Treasury ) were buildings by the various Greek city-states to hold their own votive offerings in money and precious metal ; the sites also contained large quantities of votive sculptures, although these were clearly intended to glorify each city in view of its rivals as well as to give thanks to the gods.

The Siphnian Treasury was a dedicated building to the Greek polis, or city-state, of Delphi, by the Greek city-state of Siphnos.

Another indication of Sifnos's wealth is the fact that it was one of the first places in Greece to mint coins, beginning around 600 BCE, although the number minted does not seem to have been great, and the island of Aegina, which used Siphnian silver, seems to have developed a much greater export capacity in this form of the metal.

The verb " to play the Siphnian " appears in a fragment of Aristophanes and has a similar meaning ; the usage is once again explained in the Suda, where it is said to mean " to touch the anus with a finger ".

The verb " to play the Siphnian " appears in a fragment of Aristophanes, and is explained in the Suda alongside " to Lesbianize " as a reference to transgression.

The Sibyl rock is a pulpit-like outcrop of rock between the Athenian Treasury and the Stoa of the Athenians upon the sacred way which leads up to the temple of Apollo in the archaeological area of Delphi.

Currently, the sculpture and a reconstruction of the Treasury reside in the Delphi Archaeological Museum.

Image: Metope-3. jpg | Metopes with sculptural decoration in the Doric frieze of the Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha ( Treasury of Amara ), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the " Tripartite ".

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.

Pepin founded Bacardi Imports in New York City, and was named Cuba's Minister of the Treasury in 1949.

But the new Alexius IV found the Treasury inadequate, and was unable to make good the rewards he had promised to his western allies.

The school leaving age was raised to 15 in 1947, and increased Treasury funds were made available for education, particularly for upgrading school buildings suffering from years of neglect and war damage.

Eisenhower's profit on the book was substantially aided by an unprecedented ruling by the Treasury Department that Eisenhower was not a professional writer, but rather, marketing the lifetime asset of his experiences, and thus only had to pay capital gains tax on his $ 635, 000 advance instead of the much higher personal tax rate.

Salmon P. Chase, class of 1826, was an American politician: Senator from Ohio, Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

This was followed at the end of 2011 with a transfer of $ 77 billion in profits to the U. S. Treasury Department.

The Fed has since hired Linda Robertson who headed the Washington lobbying office of Enron Corp. and was adviser to all three of the Clinton administration's Treasury secretaries.

Cleveland and Treasury Secretary Daniel Manning stood firmly on the side of the gold standard, and tried to reduce the amount of silver that the government was required to coin under the Bland-Allison Act of 1878.

Ciampi, a former Prime Minister and Minister of the Treasury and, before entering the government, the governor of the Bank of Italy, was elected on the first ballot by a comfortable margin over the required two-thirds of the votes.

Major was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1987, following the general election, and in a surprise re-shuffle in July 1989, a relatively inexperienced Major was appointed Foreign Secretary, succeeding Sir Geoffrey Howe.

Robert Toombs of Georgia was the first Secretary of State, and Christopher Memminger of South Carolina became Secretary of the Treasury.

Memminger remained Secretary of the Treasury, while Thomas Hill Watts of Alabama was made Attorney General.

President Obama ordered in July 2012 the U. S. Treasury Department to issue two licenses, one giving special permission for investment in Burma and the other allowing financial services.

Since 1721, every head of the Sovereign's government – with one exception in the 18th century ( William Pitt the Elder ) and one in the 19th ( Lord Salisbury ) – has been First Lord of the Treasury.

Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Nevis ; he spent his childhood there and on St. Croix, then belonging to Denmark, and now one of the United States Virgin Islands.

Hamilton had over 2000 Treasury jobs to dispense, while Jefferson had one part-time job in the State Department, which he gave to journalist Philip Freneau to attack the federalists.

In 1930 economist William Howard Steiner wrote that the term was used " at one time to signify that a certain amount of bullion was stored in the Treasury while the equivalent paper in circulation " represented the bullion.

Besides the Secretary, one of the best-known Treasury officials is the Treasurer of the United States whose signature, along with the Treasury Secretary's, appears on all Federal Reserve notes.

In 1791, The first Bank of the United States was brought into being as one of three major financial innovations proposed and supported by Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury.

The State Department demurred, but the Treasury Department ( having the ability to act without express permission of Congress ) decided that a commemorative medal would be appropriate and agreed to make one later that year.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is now always Second Lord of the Treasury as one of the Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer.

It was named after Alexander Hamilton, an officer in the American Revolutionary War, member of the Continental Congress, the first US Secretary of Treasury, and one of the founding fathers of the United States.

The county was named for Samuel D. Ingham, the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson, making Ingham one of Michigan's so-called Cabinet counties.

The post office's most interesting feature is a mural installed in 1938 by the noted artist Jared Blanford French ( 1905 – 1988 ) entitled " Mealtime, The Early Coal Miners ," one of more than 1, 200 works of art commissioned by the U. S. Treasury between the years 1934 and 1943 through a program intended to embellish Federal buildings and encourage the arts during the Great Depression.

The third courthouse, which was torn down in 1912 to make way for the present one, was designed by Robert Mills, the architect of the Washington Monument and the U. S. Treasury Building, as well as many other courthouses in South Carolina.

After the House of Commons he rose quickly, becoming one of the Commissioners of the Treasury and a member of the Privy Council.

In 1698, having been appointed to the first Commission of the Treasury, he was also one of the regency in the King's absence.

As part of the Liberty Bell Savings Bonds drive in 1950, 55 replicas of the Liberty Bell ( one each for the 48 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories ) were ordered by the United States Department of the Treasury and were cast in France by the Fonderie Paccard.

Smith in 1891, Balfour became First Lord of the Treasury — the last one in British history not to have been concurrently Prime Minister as well — and Leader of the House of Commons.

However, internal dissent within the cabinet led to his resignation and the appointment of Lord Chatham as Prime Minister ( the Duke of Grafton was appointed First Lord of the Treasury, one of the few cases in which those two offices were separate ).

The most successful of them was a bunraku puppet play called Kanadehon Chūshingura ( now simply called Chūshingura, or " Treasury of Loyal Retainers "), written in 1748 by Takeda Izumo and two associates ; it was later adapted into a kabuki play, which is still one of Japan's most popular.

Asked at his first appearance as chancellor at the Treasury Select Committee whether he agreed with his predecessor's view on the depth and duration of the recession and not wishing to contradict Major, Lamont replied that " there are reasons why one could believe that it will be relatively short-lived and relatively shallow.