Honours for the priest of Asklepios

SEG 18.26 Date: 137/6 BC
 
In the archonship of Herakleitos (137/6), in the seventh prytany, of AntiochisXI, for which Dionysios son of Demetrios of Anakaia was secretary. On the twenty-third of Gamelion, the twenty-seventh of the prytany. Assembly in the Piraeus. Of the presiding committee - 5 son of Eupolemos of Potamos was putting to the vote, and his fellow presiding committee members. The Council and the People decided. Diogenes son of Diokleides of Kydathenaion proposed. Since [Leonides?] son of Nikokrates of Phlya, having become priest of Asklepios[1] in the city in the year of Timarchos’ archonship (138/7), sacrificed the entry-sacrifices 10 well and piously for Asklepios and Hygieia and the other gods for whom it is traditional, and made a bovine sacrifice at the Asklepieia and the Epidauria and the Heroa, supplying [victims] in the finest way, and contributed to the all-night revels of these festivals; and performed auspicious sacrifices on behalf of the Council and People and the children and women 15 and in everything reported to the Council that the [rites] had turned out fine and salutary; and he strewed the couches . . . splendidly in each of the sacrifices and . . . ; and gave his own daughter, - , to serve as arrhephoros at the Epidauria; and wishing to enhance further the 20 honours done to the gods and the preservation of the city, he made a bovine sacrifice of a bull well and with distinction and adorned the table and contributed a chorus of maidens to the all-night revel, and having made his son Dios keyholder and [fire-bearer] for all the therapies that take place every day, in which he made generous provision 25 for those sacrificing to the god, and managed the [precinct] of Asklepios and Hygieia and the temple and the . . . in them . . . . . . in the appropriate fashion . . . . . . and having invited the Council . . . . . . do concerning these things . . . 30 . . . . . . them . . . . . . . . . from his own resources . . . . . .