AIO 2842 Fragment of a decree of uncertain group

Fragment of a decree of uncertain group

AIO 2842 Date: ca. 214-170 BC

[ . . . proposed: since] -tos the priest makes apparent . . . of the People or deme of . . . . . . the M- shall decide (?) . . . the decrees (5) . . . Uninscribed space . . . ^[1]

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References:

AIO 2842 (Translated text) (AIO)

SEG 25.110

Tracy, ALC 74h

Agora XVI 251/1 (PHI)

Agora XVI 251/2 (PHI)

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Decree (uncertain body)

Findspot: Agora (in a modern wall) (Ag. I 3142)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] Textual Note. We follow Woodhead in Agora XVI, but omit the restored references to Melite in ll. 2 and 3. δεδόχθαι μ[ὲν ("it was decided on the one hand ...", Meritt = SEG 25.110) would be unexpected.

This is a fragment of what appears to have been a substantial monument, preserving the beginning of a decree. It is probably not a state decree; as Woodhead noted, the abbreviated prescript and the initial M following δεδόχθαι in l. 3 suggest that a group beginning with M was responsible. The date is determined by Tracy's identification of the hand as that of the "Cutter of IG II² 913", whose dated inscriptions fall between 214/3 and 171/0 BC (for the range see Tracy, Horos 26-31, 2014-2019, 46). Woodhead's suggestion that the group responsible was the deme Melite is not impossible (cf. AIO 2841 for a 2nd-cent. BC decree probably of this deme); but this would be unique or nearly-unique as an Attic deme decree datable to 215-170 BC (AIO 2841 and I Eleusis 229 are more comfortably dated after Athens' reacquisition of Delos in 166 BC); and our inscription might easily be the product of a named group other than a deme (e.g. Medontidai, Mesogeioi etc., cf. e.g. IG II² 1247, l. 10).

Added: 21 Jan 2024
Updated: 21 Jan 2024
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