Athenian Decree at Delphi concerning the Soteria

F.Delphes III 2 140 Date: Second half of the 2nd cent. BC
 
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. . . . . . . . . [name] proposed: since . . . [1] . . . the Delphians for the Athenians . . . (5) . . . from the Amphiktyons . . . those who have been appointed previously . . . on which occasion when the Dorians . . . [2] . . . in exchange for which previously . . . . . . and still even now the . . . (10) . . . of the city to all and . . . . . . the religious delegates (theōrous) who (are or will be present) . . . for the competition of the [Soteria] . . . to report to the People about these matters . . . and the Soteria, the truce-bearers (spondophor-) (15) . . . to the Council, and the one who has been sent . . . [Mikion] son of Eurykleides of Kephisia[3] about . . . so that the piety of the People may be manifest to all on this occasion as well as in the future. With good fortune, the Council shall decide that the presiding committee allotted to preside
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(20)at the forthcoming Assembly shall put these matters on the agenda, and submit the opinion of the Council to the People, that it seems good to the Council to . . . and shall be granted . . . to the People the truce-bearers (spondophor-) . . . (25)the competition of the Soteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and the (30)prytany secretary shall inscribe this decree on a stone stele and dispatch it to the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi so that it can be also inscribed near the Treasury (thēsauron) of the City.