Letter of King Ptolemy III recognizing the asylia of the Asklepieion. Three joining fragments of a stele of white marble, preserved on the right and at the bottom.
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Kos Isl. — Kos — Asklepieion — 242 BC — SEG 12.369 — K.J. Rigsby, Asylia (1996) 112, 8 (a-b) — SEG 53.855
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| 1 | [βασιλεὺς Πτολεμαῖος Κώιων τῆι βου]- |
| [λῆι κ]αὶ̣ τῶι δήμωι χα̣[ίρειν· — c.10 —] | |
| [․․]#⁷ιν, ὅτι ἐπαγγέλλουσιν οἱ παρ’ ὑ- | |
| [μ]ῶ̣ν ἀρχιθέωρός τε Φαῖνις καὶ θεω- | |
| 5 | [ρο]ὶ Φιλόφρων καὶ Ἀρχέπολις π<⁶¹ερὶ>⁶¹ |
| [τῆ]ς θυσίας, ἣν συντελεῖτε τῶι [Ἀσ]- | |
| [κ]ληπιῶι, καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἄσυλον εἶν[αι] | |
| [τ]ὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ· καὶ γάρ [φασι] | |
| [τ]οὺς Ἀμφικτύονας ἐψηφίσθαι πε- | |
| 10 | [ρὶ] τούτων καὶ πρὸς τοὺς λοιποὺς |
| [βα]σιλεῖς καὶ τὰ ἔθνη καὶ τὰς πό- | |
| [λε]ις ἀφεστάλθαι τοὺς ἀξιώ〚ον〛- | |
| [σο]ντας {²⁶ἀξιώσοντας}²⁶· τήν τε δὴ θυσίαν καὶ τὴν | |
| [πα]ν̣ήγυριν καὶ τὴν τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἀσυλί- | |
| 15 | [αν δε]χόμεθα μάλιστα μὲν διὰ τὸ |
| [θεῖον, ἔπ]ειτα δὲ καὶ δι’ ὑμᾶς· προσήγ- | |
| [γειλαν] δ̣ὲ κα[ὶ ὅ]τι ἡ εἰκὼν ἕστηκεν, | |
| [ἣν ἐ]ψ̣ηφίσ̣[ασθε], καὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα, ὃν τί̣- | |
| [θη]μι ἐν Ἱερᾶ[ι Νή]σωι, ἀποδέχεσθε· | |
| 20 | ἔ[ρρ]ωσθε. |