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Kyme. Fragmentary decree about an advance of funds (I.Kyme copy)

Description: Original lost; uninscribed space at the bottom of the text reported by Plassart, Picard 1913 (dimensions of the inscribed section: h: 0.45 m w: 0.54 m )

Layout: Single column, left to right, not stoichedon

Letters: h: 0.011 m . Features of Aeolic dialect (“impure” ᾱ retained; psilosis (ἐπεστακόντος, κατ’ ἑκάσταν, otherwise unmarked); -λλ- < -λν-, -ισ- < -νσ- (ὀφέλλοισα); 1st decl. gen. pl. -ᾶν, acc. pl. -αις; 2nd decl. gen. sing. -ω, dat. pl. -οισι, acc. pl. -οις; ι-stem gen. sing. -ιος; athematic inf. -μεναι; perf. act. pple. -ων, -οντος; ἔσσομαι for ἔσομαι, παρακαλέσσαι for παρακαλέσαι; μηννός for μηνός). Barytonesis and psilosis are not marked in the text below

Origin: Kyme

Dating: Second quarter of the third century BC (Hamon 2008)

Findspot: Found private house in Çakmaklı, 1880, by Pottier and Reinach

Current location: Unknown

Reference edition: Hamon 2008, 81-86

Other editions: ed. pr. Baltazzi 1888, 362-364 (Hoffmann 1893, no. 157; H.W. Pleket, Epigraphica 38; Engelmann 1973, 87-89 (ll. 2-7); Etienne 1973, 239-246; H. Engelmann, I.Kyme 12; Migeotte, Emprunt 80 (ll. 1-7))

Photographs: Baltazzi 1888 (facs.); Hamon 2008 (phot. of the squeeze)

Translations: Engelmann 1973, 87-89 (ll. 2-7; in German); H. Engelmann, I.Kyme 12 (in German); Migeotte, Emprunt 80 (ll. 1-7; in French)

Bibliography: Plassart, Picard 1913, 169-175 P. Roussel, BE 1914 464; J. and L. Robert, BE 1973 370; J. and L. Robert, BE 1974 468

[ - - - ]
[. 8-10.]· τὸ δὲ ἀν̣[άλωμα τὸ] ἐσσόμενον εἴς τε τ[αὶς στάλλαις]
[καὶ] τοὶς πρεσβευτα[ὶς] παρακαλέσσαι τὸν ταμίαν Εὔιππον προεισε-
νέγκαι ἐπὶ πόρῳ τοῖς πρώτοις πορισθησομένοισι εἰς τὰμ φυλακὰν τᾶς
πόλιος μετὰ πρύτανιν Ἡρακλείδαν· τοὶς δὲ χρεοφύλακας ἀναγρά-
5ψαι αὐτῷ τὰν πόλιν ὀφέλλοισαν τόκω ἕκτω καὶ τὸν ταμίαν τὸν ἀπο-
δειχθησόμενον ἐπὶ τᾶς διοικήσιος ἀποδόμεναι αὐτῷ τό τε ἀρχαῖον
καὶ τὸν τόκον ἐκ τῶ πόρω τῶ γεγραμμένω· τᾶς δὲ ἀναγραφᾶς
καὶ τᾶς ἀναθέσιος τᾶν σταλλᾶν ἐπιμελήθην τοὶς ⟦[. 10.]⟧
ἄν̣δρας τοὶς ἀποδειχθησομένοις· ἔμμεναι δὲ τὸ ψάφισμα τοῦτ[ο]
10εἰς φυλακὰν καὶ σωτηρίαν τᾶς πόλιος καὶ τᾶς χώρας κύριον εἰς
πάντα τὸν χρόνον· τὸν δὲ ἀποδεδειγμένον εἰσαγωγέα τῶ νό-
μω Ε[...]ρ̣ον εἰσενέγκαι αὐτὸ εἰς̣ τὸ νομοθετικὸν δικαστήριον, ἵνα
ὑπάρχῃ ἀσφάλεια τᾷ πόλει καὶ τᾷ χώρᾳ ἐννόμως̣ κατὰ πάντα τρό-
πον· ἀναγινώσκεσθαι δὲ τοῦτο τὸ ψ̣άφισμα κατ’ ἑκάσταν ἐκκλη̣-
15[σί]αν, ἐπεί κε ἀποδειχθῇ τὸ στρατάγιον. πρέσβεις· Εὔιππος Λαονί-
[κ]ω, Ἀνδρέας Ἡροστράτω, Νικήρατος Ἀπολλοδώρω, Πολύφρων̣ (vac. )
[Εὐ]μ̣ήδω· μηννὸς Ἀμcολωίω τρίτᾳ ἀπιόντος, στραταγῶ ἐπεστακόν̣-
[τος] Ἀνδρέα τῶ Ἡροστράτω, ἐπὶ πρυτάνιος Ἡρακλείδα τῶ Ζωίλω.
(vac. )

Apparatus criticus: l. 1: τὸ δὲ ἀν̣[άλωμα τὸ] : suppl. by J. and L. Robert (BE 1973 370), Etienne; Χ̣ΟΛΕΑΙ Plassart, Picard. τ[αὶς στάλλαις] : suppl. by Hamon (see theater copy, l. 2). l. 2: [καί] : suppl. by Hamon. πρεσβευτα[ὶς] : πρεσβευτα[ίσι] Etienne, πρεσβεύτα[ισι] Engelmann (I.Kyme); see however J. and L. Robert (BE 1974, no. 468). παρακαλέσσαι : read by Hamon; παρακαλέσαι others. l. 3: ἐπὶ πόρῳ : ἐπὶ πόρω Pleket, Etienne; contra J. and L. Robert (BE 1973, no. 370). πορισθησομένοισι : πορισσθησομένοισι Pleket, Engelmann (I.Kyme). ll. 5-6: ἀπο|δειχθησόμενον : read by Hamon; ἀπ|οδειχθησόμενον others. l. 8: in rasura perhaps ⟦Α̣Ν̣[. 8.]⟧ (Hamon). l. 9: ἄν̣δρας : read by Hamon; ἄ[ν]δρας or ἄ[ν]δ̣ρας others. l. 12: Ε[...]ρ̣ον : Ε[ὔδω]ρον Hamon; Ε[ὐ]ώ[πι(?)]ον Plassart, Picard; Ἐ[π]ώ[νυμ]ον or Ε[ὐ]ώ[νυμ]ον Engelmann (I.Kyme). ll. 14-15: ἐκκλη̣|[σί]αν : read by Hamon; ἐκκλε|σίαν Baltazzi (corr. by all eds. in ἐκκλE-); -[σί]αν Plassart, Picard. l. 17: [Εὐ]μ̣ήδω : Hamon (see theater copy, l. 16); Παλα|μήδω Baltazzi, -μμήδω Plassart, Picard and subsequent eds.. Ἀμολωίω : read and corr. by Hamon (see theater copy, l. 17); Ἀμαλω[ίω] others. ll. 17-18: ἐπεστακόν̣|[τος] : read by Hamon (see theater copy, l. 18); ἐπεστακότ|[ος] others.

Translation:
[ - - - the expense that] will be sustained for [the stelai and] the ambassadors, it shall be requested that the treasurer Euippos pays it in advance, taking as guarantee the fund consisting of the first revenues for the protection of the city after the prytany of Herakleidas; the keepers of the register of debts shall write down that the city is indebted to him at an interest rate of one sixth, and the treasurer who will be appointed to the administration shall pay back to him both the original sum and the interest from the above-mentioned fund; the men who will be appointed to the task shall provide for the inscription and the erection of the stelai; this decree shall be valid for the protection and safety of the city and its territory forever; the man who has been appointed “introducer of the law”, E[...]os, shall bring it before the tribunal of the nomothetai, so that the city and its territory shall enjoy security in conformity with the law in every respect; this decree shall be read in every assembly, whenever the college of the strategoi is appointed.
Ambassadors: Euippos, son of Laonikos, Andreas, son of Herostratos, Nikeratos, son of Apollodoros, Polyphron, son of [Eu]medes; on the third-to-last day of the month of Amoloios, while the strategos Andreas, son of Herostratos, was president, under the prytany of Herakleidas, son of Zoilos. Commentary:
See the theater copy of this same document

Baltazzi, D. (1888), ‘Inscriptions de l’Éolide’, BCH 12, 358-376
Engelmann, H. (1973), ‘Zu einer Inschrift von Kyme’, ZPE 10, 87-89
Etienne, R. (1973), ‘Sur une proeisphora à Kymé d’Eolide’, ZPE 12, 239-246
Hamon, P. (2008), ‘Kymè d’Éolide, cité libre et démocratique, et le pouvoir des stratèges’, Chiron 38, 63-106
Hoffmann, O. (1893), Die griechischen Dialekte in ihrem historischen Zusammenhange, II, Göttingen
Plassart, A. and C. Picard (1913), ‘Inscriptions d’Éolide et d’Ionie’, BCH 37, 155-246 Author: Martina Astrid Rodda Last update: March 2017 DOI: 10.25429/sns.it/lettere/GEI036A

Greek Economic Inscriptions

GEI036A

Kyme. Fragmentary decree about an advance of funds (I.Kyme copy)