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.
[ ] 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.
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