Honours for Pythokles and dedication to Asklepios by a temple attendant
IG II3 4 772 Date: 2nd century BC (A); early 2nd century AD (B)Face A
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Zeus among the immortals regulates the celestial sphere of the stars,[1] while divine Solon showed the fatherland [good order (eunomian)],
and [Pythok]les’ excellence for the great-spirited townsmen (astois) of Pallas,
. . . set the standards of justice
(5) . . . extending thanks, they placed . . . . . . colleague of Dike. [2]
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Pallas gazed upon Phoibos Apollo’s namesake,
when he secured the wreath of victory for the Kekropidai,[3] at the time when the Laconian and the People of the Athenians engaged in strife,
(10) and the children of the Greeks, casting the voting pebble,
dressed not Sparta’s folk, but great-boasting Attica,
with the glorious crown of excellence,
on account of which Theseus . . . and glorified him with golden -
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(15) Menekrates son of Kensoreinos of Phaleron, being temple attendant (zakoreuōn),
prepared the figures (zōdia) and the table.[4]