Laws about cult objects

IG II3 1 445 Date: Ca. 335 BC
 
Fragments 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 (theōria-) . . . command . . . . . . . . .
Fragments cef
(20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but since from the . . . (25) . . . the surplus of this money (chrēmatōn) . . . . . . 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 (dioikēseōs) . . . . . . the cult equipment (kosmon) 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 (epistatōn) . . . shall make [cult equipment (kosmon)] for the two goddesses every year in the quadrennium from the sacred fund (hierōn chrēmatōn) 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 (kosmous) (35) from the sacred fund (hierōn chrēmatōn); and they shall make for Dionysos cult equipment (kosmon) each year in the quadrennium from the [sacred fund (hierōn chrēmatōn)]; and they shall make for Athena Itonia cult equipment (kosmous) from the first-fruits of the sacred precincts . . . this end . . . . . . and the treasurers of the sacred fund (hierōn chrēmatōn) of Good Fortune shall make cult equipment (kosmon) for Good Fortune with the superintendents (epistatōn) 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 (kosmon) whichever of the gods it is sacred (hieros) to and the weight . . . mak- . . . of the gods the money arising from the sale of skins of sacrificial animals (dermatikou)[2] . . . ; and about . . . . . . of the sanctuaries (hierōn) 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 (kosmous)] sacred (hierous) 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 (paradosei), if it is better and preferable for the People to make the cult equipment (kosmous) sacred (hierous) 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 (kosmo-) (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 (kosmou) 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 (kosmon) . . . . . . the cult equipment (kosmon) . . . (75) . . .