Laws about cult objects
IG II3 1 445 Date: Ca. 335 BCFragments ab
[1] Law 1 . . . and the . . . . . . processional vessels, nor carry down (?) . . . . . . of the public slave or public treasury, so that the public slave or People . . . . . . those (female) who have carried [down?] and received, not . . . 5 . . . against this law, let him owe . . . [drachmas] . . . . . . the public slaves who - on the acropolis . . . . . . against this law, let each of them be whipped . . . . . . shall dedicate the dedications, the gold or silver . . . . . . the public slaves, [dedicate?] one gift of those he or she receives from the People . . . 10 . . . shall dedicate gold or silver and if others have received . . . . . . silver; . . . [shall inscribe] this law and the one about the examination of the . . . . . . on a stone stele and stand it on the acropolis, and for the inscribing . . . shall allocate . . .
Law 2 . . . in the tenth (sc. prytany), of -. On the sixth of Skirophorion. Law [about the examination of the] . . . . . . Lykourgos son of Lykophron of Boutadai proposed: so that . . . 15 . . . the silver amphorae and the baskets and the other . . . . . . and not . . . . . . sacred embassy . . . command . . . . . . . . .
Fragments cef
20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but since from the . . . 25 . . . the surplus of this money . . . . . . loaned in advance . . . processional vessels (?) . . . . . . the Great [festival name] shall be allocated . . . of the processional vessels (?) . . . . . . redeeming (?) - for what has been loaned in advance . . . from the financial administration . . . . . . the cult equipment for the basket-bearers, so that . . . and treasur- . . . 30 . . . fifty aegises . . . for Zeus Soter and
Athena Sotera five every year . . . and of the treasurer . . . . . . of Zeus Soter; and the same with the superintendents . . . shall make [cult equipment ] for the two goddesses every year
in the quadrennium from the sacred fund of the two goddesses;
and the same with the - of the - and the treasurer of the People shall make every year for Zeus Olympios cult equipment 35 from the sacred fund ; and they shall make for Dionysos cult equipment each year in the quadrennium from the [sacred fund ]; and they shall make for Athena Itonia
cult equipment from the first-fruits of the sacred precincts . . . this end . . . . . . and the treasurers of the sacred fund of Good Fortune shall make cult equipment for Good Fortune
with the superintendents of the sanctuary of Good Fortune; and they shall make for Artemis Mounichia and the
40 Twelve Gods and Amphiaraos and Asklepios . . . and to inscribe
on each piece of cult equipment whichever of the gods it is sacred to and the weight . . . mak-
. . . of the gods the money arising from the sale of skins of sacrificial animals[2] . . . ; and about . . . . . . of the sanctuaries of Artemis Brauronia and of the . . . and enquire
of the god, if it is better and preferable for the Athenian People to make the [cult equipment ] sacred to Artemis
45 larger and more beautiful or to leave them as they are now; and to enquire also . . . the small standing items and such as are not included in the transfer , if it is better and preferable for the People to make
the cult equipment sacred to Demeter and Kore larger and more beautiful or to leave them as they are now; and to enquire
about those small standing items in the other sanctuaries . . . money . . . . . . in the same way the . . . cult equipment 50 . . . larger and more beautiful or leave them as they are now . . . of the
sacred fund . . . . . .
Fragment d
. . . . . . 55 . . . . . . anything else . . . . . . and bring the (?) . . . . . . and of the cult equipment crown . . . . . . of the existing . . . 60 . . . seventy . . . . . . shall write the . . . . . . make . . . . . . this law . . . . . . 65 . . . there shall be . . . . . . . . .
Fragment g
. . . . . . 70 . . . sacrilege . . . . . . the People [vote?] . . . . . . . . . the cult equipment . . . . . . the cult equipment . . . 75 . . .