Maresha, 187-175 BCE. Stele. Other Text.
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… you will do well [taking care to enter him in] the contracts, as is fitting and that a copy [of the letter] be engraved on a stele [to be set up in the most cons]picuous of [temples] in these [places …] … .
This translation and transcription is taken from the postscript as it reflects
the most updated view of the author.
This fragment is the bottom part of a
stele detailing the correspondence of Seleucus IV granting Olympiodoros a high
priesthood of Koile Syria and Phoinike. This fragmentary segment is clearly a
letter of a public nature. The phrasing of line 11 is the same as that in an
order of Antiochus III's to institute a cult for his wife Laodike.