Citizenship decree
IG II3 1 1358 Date: Ca. 185 BC
. . . and his love of honour (philotimias) towards the Athenians; and he shall also
be given citizenship, having been scrutinised in accordance with the
law; and the court presidents (thesmothetas), when they have filled the courts
(5) to five hundred and one jurors, shall
introduce his scrutiny working together
and put him to the vote; and he shall be
enrolled in the tribe and deme and phratry
that he wishes; and he shall be permitted also in the
(10) time thereafter, on maintaining his preference,
to obtain from the Council and the People
whatever other benefit he may be deemed worthy of;
and the prytany secretary shall inscribe this decree
on a stone stele
(15) and stand it on the acropolis; and the expense
accrued for the inscribing and the
[setting up] of the stele shall be allocated by the treasurer of the
military fund.[1]