Citizenship decree
IG II3 1 1218 Date: Ca. 210 BC?
. . . . . . [freedom?] . . . . . . [the People] . . . of those who . . . it
. . . to those of good repute (endoxois) . . . . . . thanks towards . . . (5) . . . for good fortune, the Council shall decide,
that the presiding committee allotted for the forthcoming Assembly
shall put these matters on the agenda, and submit to the opinion
of the Council to the People, that it seems good to the Council to praise
. . . and crown him with a
(10) [gold crown for his excellence] and the goodwill that he continues to have
towards the Athenian Council and People, and to announce
the crown at the City Dionysia in the new
tragedies and at the Panathenaia and the Eleusinia in the gymnastic
competitions; and he shall be granted citizenship and be
(15) enrolled in the tribe and deme and phratry that he wishes; and the
court presidents (thesmothetas), when they fill the courts with the five hundred and one
jurors, shall introduce the scrutiny of his
grant; and on his augmenting (epauxonti) in the future his
good will towards the Athenians, as far as he may be able, he may be
(20) honoured worthily by the People with other greater honours; and
the generals shall take care of the making and announcement
of the crown; and the prytany secretary shall inscribe this decree
on a stone stele and stand it
on the acropolis; and the treasurer [of the military fund] (25) shall allocate [the expenditure] accrued [for it].