Honours for Apses and Hieron of Tyre
IG II3 1 468 Date: After 332? BC
. . . . . . from Carthage[1] . . . . . . brought . . . [cheaper (euōnoteron)] than [what was available?] from Italy,
(5) and for the future announces
that he will bring grain to Athens and will do
whatever good is in his power for the Athenians,
both himself and his father,
to praise Apses son of Hieron of Tyre and
(10) Hieron son of Apses of Tyre for their excellence and
good will towards the Athenian People,
and crown both of them
with a gold crown; and they shall be
proxenoi and benefactors of the Athenian (15) People, themselves and their descendants,
and shall have right of ownership (egktēsin) of land and a house,
according to the law; and the
secretary . . . shall inscribe this decree . . . . . .