SC I de Prienensium et Samiorum litibus ( Sherk )

SC. I DE PRIENENSIUM ET SAMIORUM LITIBUS

Decree of the Senate concerning territorial dispute between Priene and Samos

( Before 135 BC )

( R. K. Sherk, Roman Documents from the Greek East, Baltimore, 1969, pp. 54-58, n. 10 A ).

[- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ἐσ]τιν· καὶ περ[ὶ ὧν οἱ] | [ἀποσταλέντες παρὰ Πριηνέων πρεσβευταὶ ἄνδρες καλοὶ καὶ] ἀγαθοὶ καὶ φίλοι πα[ρὰ δήμου] | [καλοῦ καὶ ἀγαθοῦ καὶ φίλου λόγους ἐποιήσαντο συμμαχί]α̣ν τε ἀνενεώσαντο, [καὶ πε]-|[ρὶ τῆς χώρας ἣν λέγουσιν ἑαυτῶν γενέσθαι πρὶν ἐληλυ]θ̣έναι εἰς ἐκείνην τὴν χώραν Μ[άν]-|[λιον καὶ τοὺς δέκα πρεσβευτάς, ὅπως ταύτην ἔχ]ωσιν· καὶ ὅσα κριτήρια κεκριμένα εἰσ[ὶ] | [περὶ ταύτης τῆς χώρας, ὅπως ταῦτα πάντα ἀναν]ε̣ωθῇ καὶ φιλανθρώπως {τε} αὐτοῖς ἀποκρι-|[θῇ· ἔδοξεν· καὶ ὅσα Πριηνεῖς λέγουσιν ἐπὶ το]σαῦτα ἔτη κατέχειν ἐκείνης τῆς χώρας, | [περὶ τούτων οὕτω, καθὼς καὶ Ῥόδιοι κ]ε[κ]ρίκασιν, οὕτως δοκεῖ εἶναι· εἰ δέ τί ἐστιν | [ἐναντίον ὧν ὡρισμένα ὑπὸ Ἀντι]γ̣όνου ἐστίν, οὕτως φαίνεται δεῖν εἶναι· ξένιά τε αὐ-|[τοῖς ἀποστεῖλαι τὸν ταμίαν ἕως ἀπὸ νό]μων σηστερτίων ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι πέντε καθ’ ἑκάστην | [πρεσβείαν,] καθὼς ἂν αὐτῶι ἐκ τ[ῶν δημοσίων πραγμάτων βέλτιστα? φ]α̣ίνη[τ]αι· ἔ̣δοξε[ν.]

► Bibliography

Chandler, Inscriptiones Antiquae pleraeque nondum editae..., Oxford, 1774 : Inscriptionum Syllabus, p. VII ; Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, Berlin, 1828-77, n. 2905-7 ; Le Bas & Waddington, Voyage archéologique en Grèce et en Asie Mineure.., III, n. 199 ; Hicks, The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum, III, n. 404 ; Sonne, De arbitris externis, quos Graeci adhibuerunt ad lites et intestinas et peregrinas componendas, quaestiones epigraphicae, Diss., Göttingen, 1888, pp. 13-14 ; Viereck, Sermo Graecus, Göttingen, 1888, pp. 19-21, XIII ; Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum, 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1898-1901, n. 315 ; Hiller von Gaertringen, Inschriften von Priene, Berlin, 1906, n. 41 ; Tod, International arbitration amongst the Greeks, Oxford, 1913, pp. 42-43 ; Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor, Princeton, 1950, I, p. 114 / II, p. 965, n. 84 ; Ceruti, Epigraphica, 17, 1955, p. 138 ; Sherk, Roman Documents from the Greek East, Baltimore, 1969, pp. 54-58, n. 10 A ; Lintott, Imperium Romanum : politics and administration, London-New York, 1993, p. 202 ; Moatti, La mobilité des personnes en Méditerranée de l'Antiquité à l'époque moderne : Procédures de contrôle et documents d’identification, Roma, 2004, pp. 534 and 538 ; Chaniotis, Corsten, Stroud & Tybout, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 2003, LIII, 2, Leiden, 2007, p. 677.

► Source : A wall stone of bluish marble found at Priene, Turkey, before 1774.