Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Mare0228

Maresha, 187-175 BCE. Stele. Other Text.

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187-175 BCE Judaea Maresha

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ΑΙΣΕΙΤΟΙΠΑ ΜΗΝΧΟΜΕΝ δὲ καὶ έστερον τοῖς αὐτοῖς ΛΟΝ καὶ τοῦ ΠΑ ΟΝ. Εὖ οὖν ποιήσεις προνοούμενος ἵνα ἐπιγραφῆι ἐν τοῖς συναλλάγμασιν τοῖς ἐπεσταλμένοις ἀκολούθως, καὶ τὸ ἀντίγραφον τῆς ἐπιστολῆς ἡμετέρας ἀναγραφὲν εἰς στήλαςλιθινας, ἀνατεθῆι ἐν τοῖς ἐπιφανεστάτοις τῶν ἐν τοῖςτόποις ἱερῶν

… 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.

Α ΙΣΕΙΤ ΟΙΠΑ ΜΗΝ ΧΟΜΕΝ δὲ καὶ έστερον τοῖς αὐτοῖς ΛΟΝ καὶ τοῦ ΠΑ ΟΝ Εὖ οὖν ποιήσεις προνοούμενος ἵνα ἐπιγραφῆι ἐν τοῖς συναλλάγμασιν τοῖς ἐπεσταλμένοις ἀκολούθως, καὶ τὸ ἀντίγραφον τῆς ἐπιστολῆς ἡμετέρας ἀναγραφὲν εἰς στήλας λιθινας, ἀνατεθῆι ἐν τοῖς ἐπιφανεστάτοις τῶν ἐν τοῖς τόποις ἱερῶν

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