| TITLE Alkesippus of Kalydon’s pompe (sacrifice and public feast at Delphi) |
| DATE 182-181 BCE |
| TEXT The Packard Humanities Institute (SGDI II 2101). See also: SEG 25, 175. [1] ἄρχοντος Δαμοσθένεος μηνὸς Ποιτροπίου, ἐπὶ τοῖσδε ἀνέθηκε Ἀλκέσιππος [2] Βουθήρα Καλυδώνιος τῶι θεῶι καὶ τᾶι πόλει τᾶι Δελφῶν χρυσοῦς ἑκατὸν τρι- [3] άκοντα καὶ ἀργυρίου μνᾶς εἴκοσι δύο στατῆρας τριάκοντα, εἴ τί κα πάθη [4] Ἀλκέσιππος, ὥστε θυσίαν καὶ δαμοθοινίαν συντελεῖν τὰν πόλιν τῶν Δελφῶν [5] τῶι Ἀπόλλωνι τῶι Πυθίωι κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ποτονομάζοντας Ἀλκεσίππεια ἀπὸ [6] τῶν τόκων τοῦ τε χρυσίου καὶ ἀργυρίου, συντελεῖν δὲ τὰν θυσίαν ἐν τῶι Ἡραίωι [7] μηνί, πονπεύειν δὲ ἐκ τᾶς ἅλωος τοὺς ἱερεῖς τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ τὸν ἄρχοντα [8] καὶ τοὺς πρυτάνεις καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους πολίτας πάντας. ἀναγραψάντω δὲ οἱ ἄρ- [9] χοντες ἐν τῶι ἱερῶι καὶ ἁ ἀνάθεσις κυρία ἔστω. καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάντα τὰ ἴδια {α} [10] ἀνατίθητι, εἴ τί κα πάθη, τῶι θεῶι καὶ {καὶ} το͂ι πόλει, καὶ Θευτίμαν τὰν ἰδίαν [11] θεράπαιναν ὥστε ἐλευθέραν εἶμεν αὐτάν, εἴ τί κα πάθη. Θαψάντω δὲ Δάμιππος [12] καὶ Θευτίμα καὶ Ἀγέας καὶ Πισίλαος ἀπὸ τῶν χαλκῶν, τῶν καταλιμπάνει πα- [13] ρ’ αὐσαυτόν, καὶ λόγον ἀποδόντω τᾶι πόλει. μάρτυροι· Κριτόλαος, Λάτροπος, [14] Ἀγέας, Πολεμοκράτης, Ἀγασίδαμος, Γενναῖος, Ξενοκράτης Μεδεώνιος, Στρά- [15] ταγος, Καλλικλῆς, Ἀνδρόνικος, Πισίλαος, Δεξικράτης, Χαρίξενος, Πολέμαρ[χ]- [16] ος Παυσανία. τὰς διαθήκας φυλάσσει Ἄθαμβος, Ἀγέας, Πεισίλαος. |
| TRANSLATION Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 631. When Damosthenes was archon, in the month of Poitropios, Alkesippos of Kalydon the son of Boutheras dedicated one hundred and thirty gold pieces and twenty-two minas and thirty staters of silver to the god and to the city of Delphi, on these terms: if Alkesippos suffers anything {dies}, the city of Delphi shall perform a sacrifice and public feast to Pythian Apollo every year, which they shall call Alkesippeia, from the interest produced by the gold and silver. The sacrifice shall be performed in the month of Heraios; and the priests of Apollo and the archon and the prytaneis and all the other citizens shall go in procession from the “threshing-floor” { halos }. The magistrates shall inscribe this in the temple, and the offering shall be valid; and all his other personal possessions shall be dedicated, if he suffers anything, to the god and the city; and Theotima his personal maidservant shall be made free if he suffers anything; and Damippos, Theotima, Ageas and Pisilaos shall perform his burial, using the bronze money that he deposited with them, and they shall render an account of this to the city. Witnesses: Kritolaos, Latropos, Ageas, Polemokrates, Agasidamos, Gennaios, Xenokrates of Medeon, Stratagos, Kallikles, Andronikos, Pisilaos, Dexikrates, Charixenos, Polemarchos son of Pausanias. The testament shall be kept by: Athambos, Ageas and Peisilaos. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY Bömmer (1952), RE, s.v. Pompa. Herrscher, Vol. XXI.2, p. 1963, n. 267. Guarducci, M. (1974). Epigrai a Greca. III. Epigrai di carattere privato. Rome: Istituto poligraico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 256-257. Harter-Uibopuu, K. (2011). “Money for the polis. Public administration of private donations in Hellenistic Greece”. In: O. M. van Nijf and R. Alston, eds., Political Culture in the Greek City after the Classical Age. Leuven–Paris: Peeters, 121. Laum, B. (1914). Stiftungen in der Griechischen und Römischen Antike: Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte. Leipzig– Berlin: Teubner, no. 27. Mannzmann, A. (1962). Griechische Stiftungsurkunden. Münster: Aschendorff, 146-147. Sokolowski, F. (1969). Lois sacrées des cités Grecques. Paris: De Boccard, 164-165, no. 81. Woodhead, A. G., ed., (1971). “SEG 25-575. Delphi. Testamentum Alcesippi, et feriae Alcesippea institutae, a. 182a”. In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. 25, 575. Amsterdam. |
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Eumenes II’s pompe in Delphi (Eumeneia)
Eumenes II’s pompe in Delphi (Eumeneia)
| TITLE: |
| Eumenes II’s pompe in Delphi (Eumeneia) |
| DATE: |
| 160-159 BC |
| TEXT: |
| Syll.3 671 = FD 3.3.238 BRINGMANN, K. and H. VON STEUBEN (1995-2000): Schenkungen hellenistischer Herrscher an griechische Städte und Heiligtümer, 2 vols., Berlin Cf. Sokolowski LSS 44; Laum 1914: no. 29; Daux FD III.3 238 |
| EDITIONS/TRANSLATIONS: |
Syll.3 671 = FD 3.3.238 Collection of Greek Ritual Norms: (English and French : A. JACQUEMIN, D. MULLIEZ and G. ROUGEMONT 2012: Choix d’inscriptions de Delphes, traduites et commentées. Études épigraphiques 5, Athens) |
| KEYWORDS: |
| Word used to mean procession: |
| πομπή or its verbal form πομπεύω (l. 8-9, π[ομ]πευόντω; l. 20, πομπεύσωντι) |
| Word used to mean the cult images: |
| βάσιν (l. 22, βάσις, “base” of the statue) |
| Gods or other entities named: |
| Apollo and Leto and Artemis (l. 5-6, Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ τᾶι Λατοῖ καὶ τᾶι Ἀρτέμιτι; Apollo again in l. 9) |
| Description of the cult images: |
| Procession’s route: |
| From the threshing floor/ from the circular place/”la place circulaire” (A. Jacquemin, D. Mulliez, G. Rougemont 2012, 167) (l. 9, ἐκ τᾶς ἅλωο[ς]). Cf. “The festival was also to include a procession departing from the so-called “Circular Area” (lit. circular “threshing-floor”) in the sanctuary” (vd. J.-M. Carbon and S. Peels) |
| Frequency with which the procession takes place: |
| Every year on the twelfth day of the month of Herakleios (l. 2-3, ἐν τῶι Ἡρακλείωι μηνὶ τᾶ[ι] [δωδεκ]άται), and the procession took place exactly on the twelfth day at the second hour (l. 8-9, τᾶι δωδεκάται π[ομ]πευόντω ὥρας δευτέρας) |
| Performers: |
| The priests of Apollo and of the other gods, the prytaneis, the archons and the other magistracies, and the torch-bearers – ten men from each tribe (l. 9-11, οἵ τε ἱερεῖς τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν καὶ οἱ πρυτάνεις καὶ ἄρχοντες καὶ [τ]ὰ ἄλλα ἀρχεῖα καὶ οἱ λαμπαδισταί, ἀφ’ ἑκάστας φυλᾶς ἄνδρες δέκα) |
| References to the public attending the procession: |
| Rites related to the procession: |
The overseers sacrificed three full-grown oxen to Apollo and Leto and Artemis, and they managed the other sacrificial victims according to the instructions, and they used the meat for the public feast, as is customary; and they provided forty metretai of wine (l. 5-8, θυόντω δ[ὲ ο]ἱ ἐπιμεληταὶ βοῦς τρεῖς τελείους τῶι Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ τᾶι Λατοῖ καὶ τᾶι Ἀρτέμιτι, καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ἱε[ρε]ῖα οἰκονομεόντω κατὰ τὰ διατεταγμένα, καὶ τὰ κρ[έα] καταχρείσθωσαν ἐν τὰν δαμοθοινίαν κα[θ]ὼς εἴθισται· οἴνου δὲ ἀναλισκόντω μετρητὰς τεσ[σα]ράκοντα) There was a race of torch-bearers from the gymnasium to the altar, and the winner set fire to the sacrifice (l. 15-16, ὁ δ[ὲ] δρόμος γινέσθω ἐκ τοῦ γυμνασίου ἄχρι ποτὶ τὸν βωμόν, ὁ δὲ νικέων ὑφαπτέτω τὰ ἱερά), and the tribe that won the torch-race received ten staters of silver for the sacrifice. The priests of Apollo, whenever they go in procession, prayed for the Eumeneia (l. 19-20, οἱ δὲ ἱερεῖς τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος, ἐπεί κα πομπεύσωντι, κατευχέσθωσαν τὰ Εὐμένεια καθὼς νομίζεται). |
| Allusions to conduct or forms of reverence: |
| Other remarkable elements: |
In this decree the city and sanctuary of Delphi received generous gifts from one its patrons; in this case, Delphi received corn and money in return for holding a festival in honour of Eumenes II (Εὐμένης Βʹ), who ruled between 197 and 159 BC, and surnamed Soter meaning “Savior”; he was a ruler of Pergamon, and a son of Attalus I Soter and queen Apollonis, members of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon. This dialogue between a city and its benefactor has been interpreted by Domingo Gygax (2016, p. 42) as a “negotiation, (…) he acted as he did partly because Delphi voted to award him great honors – honors that amounted to gifts as well as counter-gifts, and that obliged him to reciprocate”. The councillors in office inscribed this decree on the base of the statue of the king Eumenes II near the altar of Apollo, and they dispatched a copy to the king (l. ἀναγράψαι [δὲ τὸ ψάφισ]μα ἐν τὰν βάσιν τὰν ὑπάρχουσαν τοῦ βασιλέος παρὰ τὸν βωμὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος τ[οὺς ἐνάρ]χους βουλευτάς, καὶ διαποστεῖλαι ποτὶ [τ]ὸν βασιλῆ τὸ ἀντίγραφον τοῦ ψαφίσματ[ος]) One slightly later decree also studied in this project concerns a donation by Attalos II for the education of boys and honorific ceremonies and sacrifices, also including a procession, a banquet and a torch-race (vd. J.-M. Carbon and S. Peels) Moreover, the Delphic foundation of Alkesippos (also studied in this project), a somewhat earlier document dated to 182 BC apparently served as a partial model for the foundations of the Attaleia and the Eumeneia. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY: |
BÖMMER (1952), RE: s.v. Pompa. Herrscher, Vol. XXI.2, p. 1967, n.289-293. BOMMELAER, J.-F. and D. LAROCHE (1991): Guide de Delphes. Le site (École française d’Athènes. Sites et Monuments 7), Athens DAUX, G. (1935): “Sur la loi amphictionique de 380 av. J.C.”, RA,pp. 205-219 DAUX, G. (1936): Delphes au IIe et au Ier siècle, depuis l’abaissement de l’Étolie jusqu’à la paix romaine, 191-31 av. J.-C., Paris, pp. 682-685 DOMINGO GYGAX, M. (2016): Benefaction and rewards in the ancient Greek city. The origins of euergetism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 42 |
Attalus II’s pompe in Delphi (Attaleia)
Attalus II’s pompe in Delphi (Attaleia)
| TITLE: |
| Attalus II’s pompe in Delphi (Attaleia) |
| DATE: |
| 160-159 BC |
| TEXT: |
| Syll.3 672 CGRN 202 |
| EDITIONS/TRANSLATIONS: |
| Austin, M. M. (2006). The Hellenistic world from Alexander to the Roman conquest: a selection of ancient sources in translation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 422 CGRN 202 |
KEYWORDS: |
| Words used to mean procession: |
| Vb. πομπεύω (l. 56, 58, 59, πομπευόντω) |
| Word used to mean the cult images: |
| εἰκόνα (l. 62-63, τὰν εἰκόνα τοῦ βασιλέως Ἀττάλου) |
| Gods or other entities named: |
| Apollo (l. 55, 58) |
| Description of the cult images: |
| Procession’s route: |
| From the threshing floor to the temple of Apollo (l. 58-59, πομπευόντω δὲ ἐκ τᾶς ἅλωος ἐν τὸν ναόν) |
| Frequency with which the procession takes place: |
| Every 13th of the month of Heracleius (c. May, l. 55-56, τοῦ Ἡρακλείου (…) δὲ τρεισκαιδεκάται) |
| Performers: |
| The priests of Apollo and of the other gods, the prytaneis, the magistrates, and the children wearing crowns (l. 55-57, οἵ τε ἱερεῖς τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνο[ς] καὶ τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν καὶ πρυτάνεις καὶ ἄρχοντες καὶ οἱ παῖδες ἐστεφανωμένοι) |
| References to the public attending the procession: |
| The children wearing crowns (l. 57, οἱ παῖδες ἐστεφανωμένοι) |
| Rites related to the procession: |
| The priest of Apollo made a prayer and proclaimed the name of the sacrifice as being the Attaleia (l. 59-60, οἱ ἱερεῖς τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος, κατευχέστων ποταγορεύοντες τὰν θυσίαν Ἀττάλεια καθὼς εἴθισται) |
| Allusions to conduct or forms of reverence: |
| Other remarkable elements: |
| It is a decree of Delphi concerning a foundation provided by the king of Pergamon Attalus II Philadelphus (Ἄτταλος Β΄ ὁ Φιλάδελφος, which means “the brother-loving”; 220–138 BC), according to Harris 2015, n.38: “his document is a public measure enacted by the city of Delphi”; in sum, king Attalus made two donations, one of 18,000 drachmas for the education of children (lines 6-8), the other for sacrifices and processions (lines 44-63). So that the resolutions of the decree were effectively done, it was inscribed on the statue base of king Attalus II (l. 61-63, ὅπως δὲ καὶ ἐμφανῆ ᾖ τὰ ἐψηφισμ[έ]να, ἀναγράψαι τὸ ψάφισμα ἐπὶ τὰν εἰκόνα τοῦ βασιλέως Ἀττάλου). |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY: |
AUSTIN, M. M. (2006). The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest: A Selection of Ancient sources in Translation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 422. BÖMMER (1952), RE: s.v. Pompa. Herrscher, Vol. XXI.2, p. 1965, n.278. HARRIS, E. (2015). “Toward a Typology of Greek Regulations about Religious Matters”, Kernos, 28, pp. 53-83 HARRIS, E. and CARBON, J. M. (2015). “The Documents in Sokolowski’s Lois sacrées des cités grecques (LSCG)”, Kernos 28, p. 22 n.80 NOCK, A. D. (1930): “Σύνναος θεός”, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 41, p.23 |