Letter of Seleukos II (?) recognizing the asylia of the Asklepieion. Triangular stele of bluish marble, in two joining fragments; four inscriptions on three faces (nos. 208-211).
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Kos Isl. — Kos — Asklepieion — 242 BC — Hermes 65 (1930) 463, II, A (a) — K.J. Rigsby, Asylia (1996) 114, 9 (a)
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| face B | [— — — — — — — — — —] |
| [τὰ ν]ομ̣ι̣ζό[μενα συ]νε̣τ̣έ̣- | |
| λεσαν καὶ τὰ πε̣[ρὶ] τὰς θυ- | |
| σίας καὶ τὸν ἀγῶ[ν]α ἐξέ- | |
| θηκαν· ἀπὸ δὲ τούτων γε- | |
| 5 | νόμενοι ἀπήντων ἡμῖν |
| καὶ διὰ πλεόνων ὑπέ[ρ] τε | |
| τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ τῆς πόλεω̣ς | |
| διελθόντες ἠξίουν ἀσυ̣- | |
| λίαν τοῖς ἐπὶ τὰ Ἀσκληπί- | |
| 10 | εια παραγινομένοις 〚 rasura 〛 |
| καὶ αὐτῶι τῶι ἱερῶι παρ’ ἡμῶν | |
| ὑπάρξαι· ἡμεῖς δὲ τόν τε | |
| δῆμον ἐπῃνοῦμεν διὰ | |
| τὴν πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς εὐ- | |
| 15 | σέβειαν καὶ ἐπὶ τῶι τὰ πρὸς |
| ἡμᾶς φανερὰ ποεῖν καὶ Διό- | |
| γειτον ἀπεδεξάμεθα | |
| διὰ τὸ ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρί- | |
| δος ὁρᾶν πᾶν τὸ βέλ<⁶¹τι>⁶¹σ- | |
| 20 | τον καὶ λέγοντα καὶ πράτ- |
| τοντα· παραδεχόμεθα | |
| δὲ καὶ τὴν ἀσυλίαν καθό- | |
| τι ὁ δῆμος ἠξίωσεν καὶ εἰς | |
| τὸ λοιπὸν δὲ πειρασόμεθα | |
| 25 | τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶς ὄντων ἐν ἡ- |
| συχίαι μὴ ἀχαριστεῖν ἡμῖν | |
| ἐν τοῖς ἀξιουμένοις. | |
| ἔρρωσθε. | |
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