Honours for the priest of Asklepios
SEG 18.26 Date: 137/6 BC
In the archonship of Herakleitos (137/6), in the seventh prytany, of AntiochisXI,
for which Dionysios son of Demetrios of Anakaia was secretary.
On the twenty-third of Gamelion, the twenty-seventh of the prytany.
Assembly in the Piraeus. Of the presiding committee -
(5) son of Eupolemos of Potamos was putting to the vote, and his fellow presiding committee members.
The Council and the People decided.
Diogenes son of Diokleides of Kydathenaion proposed. Since [Leonides?] son of Nikokrates of Phlya, having become priest of Asklepios[1] in the
city in the year of Timarchos’ archonship (138/7), sacrificed the entry-sacrifices (eisitētēria) (10) well and piously (eusebōs) for Asklepios and Hygieia and the other
gods for whom it is traditional, and made a bovine sacrifice (ebouthutēsen) at the Asklepieia
and the Epidauria and the Heroa, supplying [victims (thumata)] in the finest way,
and contributed to the all-night revels (pannuchidas) of these festivals; and performed auspicious sacrifices on behalf
of the Council and People and the children and women
(15) and in everything reported to the Council that the [rites (hiera)] had turned out fine and
salutary; and he strewed the couches . . . splendidly in each
of the sacrifices and . . . ;
and gave his own daughter, - , to serve as
arrhephoros at the Epidauria; and wishing to enhance further the
(20) honours done to the gods and the preservation of the city, he made a bovine sacrifice (ebouthutēsen) of a bull (tauron) well and with distinction and adorned the table
and contributed a chorus of maidens to the all-night revel (pannuchida), and having made
his son Dios keyholder (kleidouchon) and [fire-bearer (purphoron)] for all the
therapies that take place every day,[2] in which he made generous provision
(25) for those sacrificing to the god, and managed the [precinct (temenous)] of Asklepios
and Hygieia and the temple (naou) and the . . . in them . . . . . . in the appropriate fashion . . . . . . and having invited the Council . . . . . . do concerning these things . . . (30) . . . . . . them . . . . . . . . . from his own resources . . . . . .