Honours for sacred delegates (theoroi) from Miletos
IG II3 1 1372 Date: Shortly before 180 BC (?)
. . . . . . the . . . . . . in a seemly manner (euschēmonōs) and . . . . . . their own . . . (5) . . . towards the People . . . . . . to make manifest . . . having come
to Eleusis for the Great Mysteries, in accordance with
the initiation granted them by the city,
. . . a bovine for Demeter and Kore . . . (10) . . . and they gave the . . . . . . was . . . . In order, therefore, that the Council and the People be
seen to be honouring and showing favour to those . . . who are of a zealous (ektenōs) disposition towards the city, for good
fortune, the Council shall decide, that the presiding committee allotted
(15) for the forthcoming Assembly shall put these matters
on the agenda, and submit the opinion of the Council
to the People, that it seems good to the Council to accept the good things
that they (i.e. the sacred delegates) reported to have happened at the sacrifices (hierois),
which they made for the health and preservation of the people of the
(20) Athenians and the children and women [and likewise for] [the] people of the Milesians and the children and women;
and to praise the chief sacred delegate (archetheōron), Euan[drides son of
Euandrides][1] and the sacred delegates (theōrous) Demetrios son of L-,
- son of Apatourios, Krates son of Heli[odoros],[2] (25) [Hermophantos] son of Lichas, Dios son of Eu-,
and to crown each of them . . . [3] . . .