Honours for Spartokos and Pairisades, rulers of the Cimmerian Bosporos, and their brother, Apollonios
IG II3 1 298 Date: 347/6 BC
Decree 1 In the archonship of Themistokles (347/6),
in the eighth prytany, of AigeisII,
(5) for which Lysimachos son of Sosidemos
of Acharnai was secretary.
Theophilos of Halimous[3] was chairman.
Androtion son of Andron of Gargettos[4] proposed:
concerning what Spartokos and Pairisades have written in their letter
(10) and what the envoys who have come from them
report, to reply to them that the Athenian People praises Spartokos and Pairisades
because they are good men and undertake
for the Athenian People to look after
(15) the export of grain, as their
father did, and to perform enthusiastically whatever
service the People may require; and the envoys
shall report to them that if they do these things
there is nothing that they will fail to obtain from
(20) the Athenian People; and since they make the same grants
to the Athenians as Satyros and Leukon made,[5] the grants which the People made
to Satyros and Leukon[6] shall apply to Spartokos and Pairisades;
and to crown each of them with a gold crown
(25) at every Great Panathenaia, of a thousand drachmas;
and the Games-masters (athlothetas) shall have the crowns
made in the year before the Great
Panathenaia, in accordance with the decree of the People
voted previously for Leukon; and to announce
(30) that the Athenian People crowns
Spartokos and Pairisades, the children of
Leukon, for their excellence and good will towards the
Athenian People; and since they are dedicating
the crowns to Athena Polias,
(35) the Games-masters (athlothetas) shall dedicate
the crowns in the temple, having inscribed on them: “Spartokos
and Pairisades, children of Leukon, dedicated
to Athena having been crowned by the Athenian People”; and the treasurer of the People
(40) shall give to the Games-masters (athlothetais) the money
for the crowns from the fund allocated
to the People for expenditure on decrees; but for now it shall be
for the receivers (apodektas) to hand over the money for the crowns
from the military fund; and
(45) the secretary of the Council shall inscribe this decree
on a stone stele and stand it near
the one for Satyros and Leukon;[7] and
the treasurer of the People shall give thirty
drachmas for inscribing it; and to praise the envoys,
(50) Sosis and Theodosios, because they take care of those
who visit the Bosporos from Athens; and
invite them to hospitality in the city hall (prutaneion) tomorrow; and concerning the money which is
owed to the children of Leukon, in order that
(55) they may recover it, the presiding committee (proedros) allotted to preside in the People
on the eighteenth[8] shall put the matter on the agenda first after the religious business or after the sacrifices (meta ta hiera),[9] so that
they may recover the money and not have grounds for complaint against the
Athenian People; and to give the ships' officers (hupēresias) (60) that Spartokos and Pairisades ask for;
and the envoys shall give a list of the names of the
officers whom they are going to take to the secretary
of the Council; and it shall be the duty of those listed
to do all in their power
(65) for the children of Leukon.