Concerning dedications in the sanctuary of Asklepios
Aleshire, Asklepieion, 9 Date: Late 2nd century BC
In the archonship of – , [second] prytany, of – , for which –
was the secretary, on the ninth of . . . . . . Of the presiding committee Sosikrates son of Tim- of – was putting to the vote and his
fellow presiding committee members. The Council and the People decided. [Philonides son of Par]menion of Araphen proposed:
(5) . . . the piety towards the gods . . . . . . and clear acts . . . . . . and having been announced . . . . . . of the arrival into Attica of the god . . . . . . sacrificed for the health and preservation [of the Council and the] (10) [People . . . ] the . . . in the month of Boedromion . . . . . . to the People of the Athenians . . . . . . so magnificently . . . . . . priest of Asklepios Leonides [of PhlyaVII . . . ] . . . in it, the . . . requiring service and repair
(15) . . . having . . . also . . . of the stone reliefs . . . . . . limbs (arthra) neglected for a long time . . . . . . are obscured through the things which . . . . . . the silver dedications [requiring] service and [repair] . . . and decoration from his private resources . . . (20) . . . the appropriate . . . towards the People . . . . . . the . . . towards divine piety (theioneusebeian-) . . . The Council shall decide that the presiding committee allotted for
the forthcoming Assembly shall put these things on the agenda, and submit the opinion of the Council to the People,
that it seems good to the Council [for the People to elect . . . men from] all Athenians, with
(25) [the general in charge of the equipment and the priest . . . ], who shall act with total foresight (pronoian) . . . of the restoration
. . . dedicated of the god
. . . domestic (oikeion) from
. . . and the gold things
(30) . . . silver things and
. . . dedicated
. . . the generals
. . . himself
uncertain number of lines missing . . . so that when these things have been done . . . (35) . . . piety, but nothing of the ancient things . . . . . . of management (epimeleias), and this decree shall be inscribed . . . . . . in a stone stele and stood in the sanctuary of [Asklepios. The following men have been elected]:
[Eucheir of Kropidai], Heliodoros of Phlya, Demos- . . . uninscribed space In the archonship of – , account of the men elected . . . in the
(40) [Asklepieion] in the city, in accordance with the decree which Philon[ides son of Parmenion of Araphen proposed, from all the] [Athenians: Euch]eir of Kropidai, Heliodoros of Phlya, [Demos- . . . ] . . . with the priest Leonides of PhlyaVII . . . [2] . . . a little chain of Kleon son of Adeimantos . . . (45) [ . . . of the ephebes] who were ephebes in the archonship of Plei[stainos] . . . [3] . . . having twenty leaves . . . [4] . . . of Alexis having . . . . . . of king An[tiochos . . . ][5] . . . being . . .