Concerning the sanctuary of Aphrodite Pandemos
IG II3 1 879 Date: 283/2 BC
When Hegesipyle was priestess.[1] In the archonship of Euthios (283/2), in the
twelfth prytany, of AiantisXI,
for which Nausimenes
(5) son of Nausikydes of CholargosVII was secretary. On the old and new day (henēi kai neai) of Skirophorion. Kallias son of Lysimachos
of Hermos proposed: so that
those who at any time are allotted city guardians (astunomoi) (10) may carry out their management
of the sanctuary of Aphrodite
Pandemos[2] according to ancestral custom,
for good fortune, the Council shall decide
that the presiding committee (proedrous) who are allotted
(15) to preside at the forthcoming
Assembly shall present the
member of the priestess's household (oikeion)[3] and shall put the matter
on the agenda and submit the opinion
of the Council to the People, that
(20) it seems good to the Council that those who at any time are
allotted city guardians (astunomous), whenever there is
the procession to Aphrodite Pandemos,
shall prepare for the purification
of the shrine a dove (peristeran),[4] and shall whitewash
(25) the altars and put pitch over the
[doorways] and wash the statues;[5] and they shall prepare
purple of weight (≥) 4 drachmas . . . . . .