Honours for the girls who worked on the robe for Athena (108/7 BC)
AIUK 1 (Petworth House) no. 1 Date: 108/7 BC (decree 2), 108/7 BC or earlier (decree 1)Fragment a
Decree 1[1] . . . . . . the Competition-director (agōnothetēs) (?) and the Competition-directors (athlothetai)[2] . . . . . . for those who made the robe (peplon) well . . . . . . the People a foliage crown . . . (5) . . . the robe . . . white raiment . . . . . . Competition-director (agōnothetēs) for the procession (?) . . . . . .
Fragment b
. . . these . . . in procession . . . [Praxiergi or Euenori]dai[3] receive (paralabōsin) the year's (epheteion) robe (peplon)[4] . . . (10) mantle (himation), they march out, they shall hand over to the . . . taking joint care of the distribution (diaireseōs) . . . [so that] the Council and People may be seen to distribute (diairoumenoi?) . . . . . .
Decree 2 In the archonship of Demochares (108/7), [in the - prytany, of -, for which - son of] (15) Dionysodoros of Ankyle was secretary, . . . the eleventh? (-dekatēi) of the prytany. Principal Assembly in the theatre. Of the presiding committee, - son of
Timyllos of Eroiadai was putting to the vote and his fellow presiding committee members. The Council and the People decided; - son of -
of Melite proposed: since, having made an approach to the Council, the fathers of the maidens
who have worked the wool for Athena for her robe[5] make clear that the maidens have followed
(20) all the decrees of the People regarding these matters and have done what is right (dikaia) and have
taken part in the procession in accordance with the prescriptions in the most fine and seemly manner possible, and have also prepared
from their own resources a silver bowl (phialēn) worth a hundred drachmas, which they wish to dedicate
to Athena as a memorial (hupomnēma) of their piety towards the goddess; and they request the Council and
People to permit the dedication of the bowl; with good fortune, the Council shall decide, that those allotted
(25) to preside at the next Assembly shall put these matters on the agenda, and submit to the People the opinion
of the Council that it seems good to the Council to permit the dedication of the bowl
which the maidens have prepared (kateskeuakasin), as [decreed? and to praise and crown] each of them with a foliage crown for their piety towards the gods and their love of honour (philotimias) towards the Council and People; and there shall be inscribed . . . of the Competition-director (agōnothetou) (30) of the Panathenaia, Themistokles . . . by the prytany secretary on a stone stele the decree and the names [of the maidens and] it shall be set up on the acropolis by the temple (naon) of Athena Polias, in order that . . . the zeal and love of toil (philoponia) they have shown in these matters may be readily emulated (euparakolouthētos?).
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ErechtheisI [6] (35) [Kalli]nike daughter of Aischines of Kephisia
[Philo?]tera daughter of Gerostratos of Lamptrai
[Dio]nysia daughter of Dionysios of Kephisia
[-]ppe daughter of Hypsikles of Lamptrai
[Kal]linoe daughter of Pyrrhos of Lamptrai
(40) [Agatho?]kleia daughter of Agathokles of Kedoi
[Them]istodike daughter of Mikion of Kephisia
[-]nike daughter of Pollis of Pergase
[-]strate daughter of Theogenes of Lamptrai
[Xeno]strate daughter of Agias of Euonymon
(45) [-]a daughter of Menodotos of Lamptrai
AigeisII [-]o daughter of Patron of Myrrhinoutta
[-]ste daughter of Sosikrates of Phegaia
[Myro?] daughter of Theodoros of Myrrhinoutta
(50)[-]e daughter of Kallias of Bate
[-]la daughter of Ariston of Ankyle
- daughter of Apollonides (?) of Otryne
- daughter of -on of Erchia
. . .
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AkamantisVI (55) Kleo daughter of Sokrates of Kerameis
Apollonia daughter of - of Cholargos
Kleo daughter of Nikias of Thorikos
Kall- daughter of Nikon (?) of Sphettos
Diodora daughter of Asklapos of Sphettos
(60) Philotera daughter of Philotheos of Kerameis
Nikomache daughter of Asklepiades of Sphettos
Philotera daughter of Nikomachos of Cholargos
PtolemaisV Pamphile daughter of Xe[nokrates?] of Kydantidai
(65) Ai[sch?]ron - daughter of - of -
Demonike daughter of Dionysokles of Hekale
Dionysia daughter of Asklepiades of Phlya
Hierokleia daughter of Dionysios of Phlya
Agathokleia daughter of Biottos of Phlya
(70) Mneso daughter of Asklepiades of Berenikidai
Isias daughter of Aristomedes of Aigilia
Demostrate daughter of Chairephanes of Aphidna
Kleopatra daughter of - of Berenikidai (?)
. . .
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[HippothontisIX] . . . (75) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (80) Bra-
. . . Gorg-
Ag- or Hag- M-
(85)E- or He- Hed-
[AiantisX] . . . K-
(90) . . . M-
. . . . . .