Decree of [Eumolpidai] honouring Aristokles of Perithoidai, the hierophant
I Eleusis 234 Date: ca. 149/8 BC?
I Eleusis 233
In the archonship of Lysiades (ca. 149/8), on the sixteenth of Pyanopsion
by divine reckoning (kata theon), but the fifth according to the archon,
at the Principal Meeting in the [Eleusinion?],[1] Amynomachos
son of Eukles of Halai proposed: since the hierophant
(5) Aristokles of Perithoidai continues to be well-disposed
towards the Eumolpidai, privately to each and collectively to all,
and appointed hierophant in the archonship of Hermogenes (183/2) he renewed the writing up of the - ?
from the ancient archives (grammateiōn) in the Eleusinion[2] (10) according to which the hierophant in office was required to . . . the Eumolpidai wrote down (sunegrapsan) . . . and in accordance with
the decree of Philonautes and the other decrees
of the People, wrote down finely the instructions for the introductory sacrifices
with the participation of the Eumolpidai, with every [preparation (paraskeuēs)?] (15) and love of honour (philotimias), and introduced a decree
that the (scil. procedure for the) introduction should be written up on a stone stele in
the Eleusinion; and when many sacrifices had been omitted
for a number of years because of the critical times, he both sacrificed
in every year himself, and having made
(20) an approach to the Council and explained
about them he sanctioned a decree in order that there should be many
sources of revenue from which sacrifices for the rites might be carried out
for the gods according to ancestral tradition . . . of the traditional competition . . . (25) . . . . . .
I Eleusis 234 . . . praise . . . so therefore that there
should be an incentive for all [to show love of honour towards the Eumolpidai, knowing that] they will obtain thanks worthy [of their creditable behaviour towards the genos of the
Eumolpidai] . . . [for good fortune, the Eumolpidai shall decide to praise] (5) the hierophant Aristokles [of Perithoidai] . . . and crown him with a myrtle crown [for his piety towards the genos?] [and] towards the gods . . . . . . the gathering (sunagōgēn) . . . . . . of Aristokles and . . . (10) all the [sacrifices] to Demeter . . . . . . when the [People?] were brought together (sunachthentos) . . . the office of hierophant; and in order that [everyone may know that] the genos of the
[Eumolpidai continues] to be grateful . . . [to write up this decree] on three stone stelai [and stand one] . . . , another in
(15) the Eleusinion in the city, and another . . . . . . the . . . . . .