AIO 3453 Decree of Athenian soldiers in Rhamnous honouring Dikaiarchos

Decree of Athenian soldiers in Rhamnous honouring Dikaiarchos

AIO 3453 Date: ca. 240 or 230 BC (?)

[- - - περὶ τὸν δῆ]- μον [τὸν Ἀθηναίων φιλοτιμῶνται (?), εἰδότες ὅτι χάριτας] ἀξίας [κομι]οῦντα[ι ὧν ἂν εὐεργετήσω]σ[ιν, ἀγαθῆι] τύχη[ι] δεδόχθαι Ἀθηναίων [τ]ο[ῖ]ς στρα[τε]υομέν[ο]ις Ῥ[α]μνοῦν- (5)τι ἐπαινέσαι Δικαίαρχον Ἀ[π]ο[λλ]ωνίου Θριά[σιον] καὶ στεφανῶσαι θαλλοῦ στεφάνωι ἀρετῆς ἕνεκα καὶ φι- λοτιμίας τῆς εἰς ἑαυτούς· ἀναγράψαι δὲ τόδε τὸ ψήφισ- μα ἐν στήλει λιθίνει καὶ στῆσαι ἐν τῶ[ι θ]εάτρωι, εἰς δὲ τὴν ἀναγραφὴν εἰσενενκεῖν τοὺς ν̣ομ[- - -]· (10) ἑλέσθαι δὲ καὶ τρεῖς ἄνδρας ἐξ ἑαυτῶν οἵτινες συντελοῦ- σιν τὰ ἐψηφισμένα· οἵδε εἱρέθησαν, Λέων Ἅγνωνος Ὄαθεν, Θεόδωρος Νικωνύμου Φλυεύς, Γλαύκων Σωσικράτου vac. Χολλείδης. vacat in crown Ἀθηναίων (15)οἱ στρατευόμενοι Ῥαμνοῦντι Δικαίαρχον.

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References:

AIO 3453 (Translated text) (AIO)

IG II² 1311 (PHI)

I Rhamnous 19 (PHI)

Csapo and Wilson II, 244-5

Knoepfler, Trésor documentaire, 166 n. 436, 171 n. 452, 209

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Images: Krateros - (1)

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Decree (Soldiers at Rhamnous)

Original location: Rhamnous (theatre)

Findspot: Rhamnous (Fortress) (EM 4213)

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[1] Textual Note AIO follows the text of I Rhamn. 19 except in ll. 1-2, where I Rhamn. has καὶ στεφανῶσαι κατὰ τὸν νό]|μον [ἀρετῆς ἕνεκεν καὶ εὐνοίας ("and to crown him in accordance with the] law, [on account of his excellence and good will"), Knoepfler suggests περὶ τὸν δῆ]|μον [φιλοτιμῶνται and AIO [Lambert] adds τὸν Ἀθηναίων to yield a line of the requisite length. In l. 9 IG II² reads νομοφ[ύ]λ[α]κας ("guardians of the law"), but later eds. have read nothing after ΝΟΜ. εἰσφέρω would seem here to have the sense "introduce" a proposal rather than the common "pay the capital tax" (eisphora). Whether or not the officials responsible for the proposal are to be restored as "guardians of the law," as Kirchner notes (IG II²) they should be local officials rather than a central board. The following lines probably recorded the enactment of this proposal.

This decree honoured Dikaiarchos son of Apollonios of Thria, who is usually taken to be identical with the man of that name honoured by the much more fully preserved I Rhamnous 17, of 235/4 BC. In that case this decree will date either a little earlier than that one or somewhat later. Knoepfler, however, raises the possibility that the honorands were not the same man, and would date this decree ca. 220 BC. Of the three men elected to fund the decree, Leon son of Hagnon of Oa (l. 11) is well-attested at Rhamnous in the later 3rd century BC and the other two are not otherwise known.

On the placement of this decree in the theatre (l. 8) and the Dionysia at Rhamnous, see IG II³ 4, 969.

Added: 19 Aug 2025
Updated: 19 Aug 2025
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