Cypress from Karpathos
AIO 954 Date: 445-430 BCFace A
The Council and the People decided.
– was the prytany. Teisias
was secretary. Athenodoros
was chairman. Ktesias proposed:
(5) - of Karpathos[1] and
[his children] and the community (koinon) of the
Eteokarpathians[2] shall be recorded as
benefactors of the Athenians, because they donated
the cypress for the temple
(10) of Athena[3] who protects the Athenians,
and to allow the community of the Eteokarpathians to be autonomous[4] and
. . . . . . (15) . . . . . . shall give . . . their
own just as before (?) . . . . . . those of the soldiers
who have now occupied [the acropolis or place name] shall now
(20) evacuate it.[5] If anyone . . . . . . Eteokarpathian . . . . . . either takes away or . . . . . . he shall owe fifty talents
(25) to the Athenians and a tithe of it
shall be for the goddess. The case is to be tried
before the court presidents (thesmothetas) in A[thens?].
If the Eteokarpathians need anything else, the Koans (30) and the [Kni]dians and the Rhodians and those of [the allies] who are
able in this area (peri tauta ta chōria?) shall [assist (ōphelen?)] (?) as far as they can.[4] These things shall be written on a stone
(35) stele on the acropolis, and at Karpathos in the sanctuary of Apollo,
from which the cypress was cut.
[Hagesa or Deina?]rchos the Lindian shall [deliver?] (40) for the Athenians (?) the
cypress.
Face B
. . . . . . . . . (45) . . . choose two ambassadors . . . these things to the Karpathians . . . the stele . . . shall be two summons-witnesses of the? (klētēre enai tōn?) . . . (50) [Hagesa or Deina?]rchos and . . . . . . the city . . . . . . ; but if . . . . . . hostile . . . of the Athenians . . . (55) the managers (epimelētai) within twenty
days after the . . . the two ambassadors these . . . . . . in the . . . of the area (chōriōn?) (?) . . . . . . providing the . . . (60) . . . use . . . whenever they need . . .