Decree of the orgeones of Echelos and the heroines
Agora XVI 161 Date: Early iii BC ?
Lysias son of Periandros of Plotheia proposed: for good fortune,
the orgeones shall decide, in order that the [common sacrifices?] may be maintained for all time by the association
at the property of Kalliphanes and that of the hero
(5) Echelos,[1] to inscribe those who owe the association
on a stone stele and stand it next to the altar
in the sanctuary, both the principal and the interest, as much
as each owes; and to inscribe also the old
decrees on the stele. And the - shall take care
(10) of the inscribing and setting up of the stele, and
shall give an account of his expenditures on this to the association.
The orgeones decided:[2] the host (hestiatora) shall offer the sacrifice
on the seventeenth and eighteenth of the month Hekatombaion.
He shall sacrifice on the first day a piglet for the heroines, and for the hero
(15) a full-grown animal, and lay out a table, and on the
next day a full-grown animal for the hero. He shall give an account of
his expenditures and shall not spend more than the income.
Let him distribute the meat to the orgeones who are present, and to their
[sons] half a portion, and to the wives of the orgeones,
(20) [giving] free women an equal portion, and to their daughters
half a portion, and to one female acolyte (akolouthÅi)[3] half a
portion, and let him give the man his wife's
portion. . . . The orgeones decided: the host shall . . . of the accrued
(25) . . . . . .