Decree of Aixone honouring Kallikrates and Aristokrates, 340/339 BC (?)

IG II2 1202 Date: 340/339 BC (?)
 
Relief In the archonship of Theophrastos (340/39?), at the principal meeting;[1] the Aixoneans decided; Glaukides son of Sosippos of Aixone proposed: that the Aixoneans shall resolve; since Kallikrates son of Glaukon of Aixone and (5) Aristokrates son of Aristophanes of Aixone are good men and honour-loving (philotimoi) concerning the deme of Aixone, to praise them for their excellence and justice towards the deme of Aixone and crown them with a gold crown of five hundred drachmas each; (10)and the money for the crowns shall be paid from the surplus money from the budget (dioikēseōs) of the year of Theophrastos' archonship (340/39?); and Hegesileos the demarch and the treasurers shall give them the money for the crowns; and they shall announce at the (15)Dionysia in the comedies at Aixone in the theatre, that the deme of the Aixoneans crowns them for their excellence and justice towards the deme of Aixone and the common property (koina) of the Aixoneans; and the demarch Hegesileos and the treasurers shall inscribe (20)this decree on a stone stele and stand it in the theatre at Aixone. Crown Crown