AIUK42 no. 2 Regulations for Erythrai

Regulations for Erythrai

AIUK 4.2 (BM, Decrees of Council and Assembly) no. 2 Date: 454-450 BC?

. . . (16) . . . thousand . . . . . . three . . . . . . of the . . . . . . overseers . . . (20) . . . and in other respects . . . . . . garrison commander just as . . . . . . it shall not be permitted for the Erythraians (?) . . . . . . nor archers . . . . . . the guards . . . (25) . . . and Erythrai- . . . . . . in the presence of . . . . . . adjudicate for the Erythraian (?) . . . . . . Erythraian(s?) to the . . . . . . adjudicate, deposit- . . . (30) . . . of the court fees (?) . . . . . . adjudicate . . . . . . just as . . . . . . shall be . . . ^[1] . . .

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References:

AIUK 4.2 (BM, Decrees of Council and Assembly) no. 2 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG I³ 15a (IG Online) (PHI)

GIBM I 3

AIO 1797 (AIO)

Moroo, Erythrai Decrees 100-101 no. 1c(b)

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

AIO Images: 1

Images: Aleshire - (1)

Monument type: Unknown

Inscription type: Decree (Council/People)

Findspot: Unknown (BM 1816,0610.346)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This fragment was among the inscriptions acquired in Athens by Lord Elgin (cf. AIUK 4.1, no. 2). It is one of a number of fragmentary inscriptions in which the Athenian Assembly made arrangements for Erythrai, an Ionian city on the mainland of Asia Minor opposite Chios. The most substantial, IG I³ 14 = OR 121, is known only from early transcriptions, making it impossible to be certain whether the smaller surviving fragments belong to the same decree, to another decree on the same stone or to one or more separate inscriptions. The lettering on OR 121 was apparently similar in style to that on this fragment, and what survives of our text suggests that it belongs in the same context, whether or not the two fragments are from the same decree. In l. 19 “overseers” (episkopoi) are mentioned, presumably the same as are referred to in OR 121, 13-14; the garrison-commander in l. 21 is also most likely the same garrison-commander referred to in OR 121, 14 and 14-15; and the archers in l. 23 the same as those referred to in OR 121, 42. The decree in OR 121 might very plausibly have included later sections making arrangements for the garrison (16-24) and on legal disputes (25-34). IG I³ 15d and IG I³ 16 also belong to this group of fragments. The Athenian intervention in Erythrai is conventionally dated ca. 454-450 BC, though Moroo has recently suggested an alternative possible context in 435/4 BC. Letter-forms can not be used to adjudicate conclusively as between dates less than twenty years apart, but the significantly forward-leading nu, the mu with short right diagonal and the phi inscribed as a circle with a vertical line within it, are more comfortable before ca. 450 BC than significantly later. Cf. Tracy, Athenian Lettering, 217. For a later intervention by Athens in the affairs of Erythrai see RO 17, 387/6 BC (?). For more detailed discussion of the decree see AIUK 4.2, no. 2

Added: 1 Jul 2019
Updated: 3 Nov 2023
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