Musical festival
Number B013
Title The Demostheneia at Oenoanda
Defmap east
Findspot Oenoanda
Language Greek
Trans David Potter
Introduction A dossier of five letters (I-V) recording the establishment of a festival at the city of Oenoanda in the reign of Hadrian.
I. The Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, son of the divine Trajan Parthicus and grandson of the divine Nerva Germanicus, pontifex maximus, with tribunician power for the eighth time, consul for the third time, sends greetings to the magistrates, council and people of the Termessians. I praise Julius Demosthenes for the love of honor he has shown to you and confirm the musical competition that he has promised you. He will contribute the cost from his own treasuries. let the penalties which he has fixed against those who contravene what he has fixed concerning his gift be enforced. The ambassadors were Artemon son of Diogenes Tolobasios, Simonides, son, grandson and great grandson of Simonides and Mettius Apelles. Farewell. August 29, from Ephesus.
II. On Artemeisios 24 (July 25), when Claudius Capito Rubrianus was high priest of the emperors, I, Gaius Julius Demosthenes, son of Apollonius, of the Fabian tribe, prytanis and secretary of the council of the Oenoandians, since I have loved my dearest homeland since earliest youth, and have not only maintained but thoroughly surpassed the generosity of my ancestors towards it, in the annual subsidies that I made to ensure fair prices in the market and in providing a boundless supply of [...] to the magistrates, and as I have constructed a food market with three stoas facing it, two with one and one with two stories, and have spent more than 15000 denarii on this and the purchase of the houses that were removed to make way for this building, and as I wish, additionally, to leave behind for my homeland, in like manner with these buildings, a permanent capital fund, publicly promise (the foundation of) a theatrical festival to be called the Demostheneia, which will be celebrated at three year intervals, just like the other penteteric festivals are celebrated, so that on the fourth year it will commence on the Augustus day (first day) of Artemeisios (July 1); and for this festival I or my heirs will contribute 1000 denarii every year in the month of Dios (January) from the coming year until we designate property that is capable of maintaining an income of this size, which one of the eikosoprotai, selected by the city, will rent out for 1000 denarii during each five year period at his own risk, or shall occupy it himself, if he wishes, securely fixing the interest at the accustomed local levels—however, in accordance with my patriotic zeal in this matter also, on condition that 100 denarii yields (monthly) interest of ten asses. In this way it is not burdensome for the person who undertakes on both my and the homeland's behalf, so that my nephew, Simonides, son and grandson of Simonides, great grandson of Moles, has promised publicly to pay the rent for the first three year period. I offer all my thanks not only for this alone but also because he has undertaken the agonothesia of the first festival after me, so that, having performed his duties he leaves behind a model for the agonothete who will be elected after him.
Since, together with the interest from the three-year period, without compound interest 3,450 denarii are collected along with the 1,000 denarii from the year in which the festival is held, 4450 denarii in all. as large a sum shall be provided for the prizes of the competition to each of the victors as is given by the province in the civic festivals held in the cities, apart from the penteteric games, that is 1,900 denarii in all; and 600 denarii shall be given for hired shows, and for theatrical displays, and for gymnastic competitions in which only the citizens will compete, a total of 150 denarii shall be divided among the individual contestants and the remaining 1,800 denarii, and anything that is by chance remaining from the prizes of competitors who by chance do not appear, will be given as judges' fees to the members of the council and to the sitometroumenoi, since the councilors should serve as judges and sitometroumenoi who are not members of the council should be picked by lot until a total of 500 is achieved, so that each receives 3 denarii; and the remaining 300 denarii and anything left over from the prizes shall be divided between the citizens who are not sitometroumenoi and the freedmen and the paroikoi.
When I or my heirs designate the estates, then Simonides, the eikosaprotos of the first three year period, or whoever the city shall choose from time to time in other three years periods, will collect and lend out the income from them, as has been written above, and will take care that the lands do not deteriorate, and that the income from them is not diminished.
It will be necessary in the elections held in the year before the festival to choose an agonothete from the members of the council, who pays nothing from his own funds but who will square the income and expenditure and render accounts in the month of Audnaios (March) of the year following the festival to three of the eikosaprotoi, whoever the city appoints, who will adjudicate in the sanctuary of the ancestral god Apollo, so that religious respect for the god may be added to natural fair dealing. The agonothete will use the title, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, agonothete of the first (second, third) festival of the Demostheneia, as the year indicates. But if anyone transgresses any of these provisions or diminishes, or directs for any other purpose the income, or the estates, or their price if they have been sold, or commits some fraud, or proposes or passes a decree or petitions a governor with a view to preventing any of my instructions from being carried out, whether he be a magistrate or a private citizen, he shall pay a fine of 2,500 denarii to the ancestral god Apollo to be the property of the temple, and 5,000 denarii to the most sacred treasury of the emperor, and the person who provides information about this matter and assists my project will receive an eighth part of this sum ; and my estates and those of my descendants will not be diminished.
The arrangements and dates of the competitions are set out below in this announcement:
On the Augustus day of Artemeisios (July 1): a competition for trumpeters and heralds, in which the victors are given a prize of 50 denarii;
after the meeting of the council and the assembly on the 5th: a competition for writers on encomia in prose, in which the victors will be given 75 denarii;
the 6th day will be left clear because of the market that takes places then;
the 7th: a competition for poets, in which the victors will be given 75 denarii;
the 8th and 9th: a competition for playing the flute players with chorus: the first prize winner will be given 125 denarii, and the second 75 denarii;
the 10th and 11th: a competition for comic poets, the first prize winner will be given 200 denarii, the second 100 denarii;
the 12th: a sacrifice for ancestral Apollo;
the13th and 14th: a competition for tragic poets, the first prize winner will be given 250 denarii, and the second 125 denarii;
the 15th: second sacrifice to ancestral Apollo;
the 16th and 17th: competition for citharodes, who will receive as first prize 300 denarii and as second prize 150 denarii;
the 18th: an open competition for all, for which will be given a first prize of 150 denarii, a second prize of 100 denarii, and a third prize of 50 denarii, and 25 denarii will also be given to the person who provides the scenery;
the 19th, 20th and 21st: hired performers among which shall be mime artists, acts and displays, for which prizes are not provided; and the other acts which are for the benefit of the city are hired for these days, for which 600 denarii will be paid;
the 22nd: gymnic competitions for citizens, on which 150 denarii will be spent.
III. When Licinianus Lyson was high priest of the emperors, on 4 Artemeisios (July 5), the preliminary proposal of Comon son of Croesus, Veranius son of Comon, and Simonides, son and grandson of Simonides, great grandson of Diogenes, was written down concerning the measures taken with a view to realizing the festival of the Demostheneia in our community, and concerning all the measures relevant to it, and Julius Demosthenes, our most excellent citizen who also founded the festival, a man of the greatest distinction, outstanding in reputation, ancestry, and character not only in his home city but also in the province, has come forward and in addition to all the other good things that he has provided for the city, in founding public buildings and making benefactions unceasingly, and for the penteteric musical festival which he himself has established at his own expense, has promised that he will, in addition, and at his own expense, make ready and dedicate to the city a golden crown carrying relief portraits of the emperor Nerva Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus and our leader, the ancestral god Apollo, which the agonothete will wear, and an altar decorated with silver which has an inscription to the dedicator—the council has praised the....man for his continuous goodwill to the city and for his present patriotic zeal and his unsurpassed great heartedness and his devotion to the emperors, and honored him with every honor, and has passed the following decree so that the festival should be adorned in every way, and that devotion to the emperor who has supported it should be completely fulfilled:
The agonothete should wear the previously mentioned gold crown and a purple robe, and at the beginning of the new year should make the ceremonial entrance, performing the pious rituals for the emperor and the gods of the homeland on the Augustus day of the month of Dios (January 1) and processing in company with the other magistrates, and he should take a front seat at the meetings of the council and the assembly and at shows wearing the previously mentioned attire. In the year that he acts as agonothete, three panygeriarchs should be chosen by him from the councilors in order to take charge of the market and the supply of provisions at the festival and to inspect and organize the things that are offered for sale, and to punish those who disobey; likewise ten sebastophoroi should also be chosen by him who, wearing white clothing and a crown of celery leaves, will handle, bring forward and escort the images of the emperors, and the image of our ancestral god Apollo, and the previously mentioned holy altar; likewise twenty magistophoroi should also be chosen by him, who will lead the way dressed in white clothing without undergarments, also carrying shields and whips, and they will be in charge of good order in the theater as they have been instructed by the agonothete. All the previously mentioned officials shall be chosen from the citizens. Likewise, two agelarchs should be chosen by him from boys of the noblest families, who will additionally select around twenty children, whom they themselves will inspect, who will organize a race run with torches, and the victor should be crowned and honored by the city with a decree and, if he wishes, with a statue, the cost of which shall be borne by the agelarch himself, or, if not, should be content with the honor of a decree; but a sum can be assigned for this, as much as the agonothete chooses.
The following will process through the theater and will sacrifice together during the days of the festival, according to the way the agonothete gives written instructions for each communal sacrifice:
the agonothete himself: one bull;
the civic priest of the emperors and the priestess of the emperors: one bull;
the priest of Zeus: one bull;
the three panegyriarchs: one bull;
the secretary of the council and the five prytaneis: two bulls;
the two politikoi agoranomoi : one bull;
the two gymnasiarchs : one bull;
the four treasurers: one bull
the two paraphylakes : one bull;
the ephebarch : one bull;
the paidonomos : one bull;
the supervisor of public works: one bull;
of the villages
Thersenos with Armadu, Arissos, Merlakanda, Meha Oros, [...]lai, Kirbu, Euporoi, Oroata, [...]rake, Valo, and Yskapha, with their associated farmsteads: two bulls;
Orpenna Siepla with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Ogarsan [...] with Lakistaunda and Kakasboi Killu and their associated farmsteads: [...]bull (?);
[.]yrnea with Nigyrassos with its associated farmsteads: one bull;
Vauta Marakanda with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Milgeipotamos Vedesa with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Prinolithos Kolabe [...] with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Kerdebota Palangeimanake with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Minaunda Pan[..]syera with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Ornessos, Aetu nossia, Korapsa with their associated farmsteads: one bull;
[...]a Sapondoanda with associated farmsteads: one bull.
No one has authority to exact a tax for these sacrifices.
The demarchs and the archidecanoi, in villages where there are archidecanoi, should assume supervision of the village sacrifices, with the agonothete making provision in the year before the festival that demarchs and archidecanoi are chosen for the year of the agonothesia, and indicating one man from each village from those who take part in the common sacrifice who must make provision for the sacrifice. if any of those previously mentioned does not take part in the common sacrifice, he will pay a fine of 300 drachmas to the city as if he had received a judicial sentence, with the agonothete making the names of those who participate in the common sacrifice and join the procession public, and making the names of those who do not participate in the sacrifice public, so that those who ought to have payment extracted from them by the city are conspicuous.
The sacrifices that are sent by other cities
These should also be escorted with a procession through the theater at the time that they are sent, and the decrees that are sent by the cities should be lodged in the archives by the incumbent magistrates, and the agonothete should write a reply to the cities concerning their participation in the sacrifice. Those who have already served as agonothete should sit in the front row in the festival with the agonothete.
There should be no taxes throughout the whole period of the festival on any goods sold, sacrificed, imported, introduced or exported during all the days of the festival.
On the first day of the elections of the year before his own agonothesia, the agonothete should propose the most suitable of the councilors as (next) agonothete, there being a proposal, counter-proposal and a five year period of exemption from official duties, covering two years before the festival and three years after the festival, and all the other regulations being observed as also exist for the priest of the emperors according to the laws concerning the elections; and on 30 Hyperberetaios (December 31) of the year of his agonothesia, the agonothete shall hand over the crown, with its weight checked, and the altar, unweighed but in sound condition, just as he had received it, to the agonothete who succeeds him and this should be recorded in the archives.
All the other arrangements should be just as laid out by the public promise of the most distinguished Gaius Julius Demosthenes and the decrees concerning these matters that have been confirmed by the most divine Imperator Nerva Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus.
A stone stele should be set up by the agonothete C. Julius Simonides, and this should be placed in the stoa in front of the food market next to the standing statue of the most distinguished Julius Demosthenes, and on it should be inscribed the public promises, and the most sacred letter of Imperator Nerva Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus, and the decrees of the council and assembly concerning the festival; and Julius Demosthenes has indicated that he will bear the expense to be incurred for the stele from his own funds.
Concerning the festival's tax free status and the agonothete's exemption from official duties, it was decided that the most distinguished governor Flavius Aper should be petitioned, and that ambassadors should be chosen in the assembly to approach him, and that a proposal concerning all the matters which had been decreed should be put to the assembly, so that it might be confirmed by it. And there should be a written approach by the people to the governor through its decree concerning the festival's tax free status, and the agonothete's exemption from office, and ambassadors should be chosen.
IV. The council and the people of the Termessians at Oenoanda decided: Gaius Julius Demosthenes, of the Fabian tribe, a friend of all the governors, and personally known to the emperors for the most excellent reasons, in addition to all the other ways in addition to all the other ways in which he has benefitted the homeland, as he has dedicated a food market and stoas at his own expense and at every opportunity made abundant provisions available, has founded, in addition, from his own finances, a penteteric musical festival, equal in prize money to the civic festival that are held in the province, which the divine Imperator Nerva Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus has also recognized and confirmed; and furthermore, during the meeting of the council that has just now taken place in the month of Iulius, he has come forward and made a public declaration that he will dedicate to the city a gold crown and an altar decorated with silver for the reverence of the emperors and for the adornment of the city. Wherefore a testimonial should be sent on his behalf to the most distinguished governor Flavius Aper, and this man should be asked to confirm exemption from office for the adgonothete and tax-free status for items that are imported, introduced, sold, exported, and put up for sale during the days of the festival, which we have decreed, since other governors have already given us permission by edicts to grant exemption from duties to new magistracies that have been created after the codification of our laws just as is the case for previously existing magistracies, and to hold festivals in the cities under their control, so that we, as a consequence of his philanthropy, may share the benefits that he provides and in this way the city may be enhanced.
C. Licinnius Thoas, C. Licinnius Fronto, HREF="">Tlepolemos son of Croesus, Diogenes, son and grandson of Diogenes, great grandson of Moles, and Croesus son of Tlepolemos were chosen as ambassadors from the first men of our community to present him with this decree.
V. The person who is established as agonothete for this competition shall have five-year exemption from duties...and there shall be tax-free status during the days of the competition, if you take care that the city's revenues are in no way diminished. The ambassadors were C. Licinnius Thoas, C. Licinnius Fronto, Tlepolemos Diogenes, son of Croesus, son and grandson of Diogenes, great grandson of Moles, and Croesus, son of Tlepolemos.
Number B013
Title The Demostheneia at Oenoanda
Defmap east
Findspot Oenoanda
Language Greek
Trans David Potter
Introduction A dossier of five letters (I-V) recording the establishment of a festival at the city of Oenoanda in the reign of Hadrian.
I. The Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, son of the divine Trajan Parthicus and grandson of the divine Nerva Germanicus, pontifex maximus, with tribunician power for the eighth time, consul for the third time, sends greetings to the magistrates, council and people of the Termessians. I praise Julius Demosthenes for the love of honor he has shown to you and confirm the musical competition that he has promised you. He will contribute the cost from his own treasuries. let the penalties which he has fixed against those who contravene what he has fixed concerning his gift be enforced. The ambassadors were Artemon son of Diogenes Tolobasios, Simonides, son, grandson and great grandson of Simonides and Mettius Apelles. Farewell. August 29, from Ephesus.
II. On Artemeisios 24 (July 25), when Claudius Capito Rubrianus was high priest of the emperors, I, Gaius Julius Demosthenes, son of Apollonius, of the Fabian tribe, prytanis and secretary of the council of the Oenoandians, since I have loved my dearest homeland since earliest youth, and have not only maintained but thoroughly surpassed the generosity of my ancestors towards it, in the annual subsidies that I made to ensure fair prices in the market and in providing a boundless supply of [...] to the magistrates, and as I have constructed a food market with three stoas facing it, two with one and one with two stories, and have spent more than 15000 denarii on this and the purchase of the houses that were removed to make way for this building, and as I wish, additionally, to leave behind for my homeland, in like manner with these buildings, a permanent capital fund, publicly promise (the foundation of) a theatrical festival to be called the Demostheneia, which will be celebrated at three year intervals, just like the other penteteric festivals are celebrated, so that on the fourth year it will commence on the Augustus day (first day) of Artemeisios (July 1); and for this festival I or my heirs will contribute 1000 denarii every year in the month of Dios (January) from the coming year until we designate property that is capable of maintaining an income of this size, which one of the eikosoprotai, selected by the city, will rent out for 1000 denarii during each five year period at his own risk, or shall occupy it himself, if he wishes, securely fixing the interest at the accustomed local levels—however, in accordance with my patriotic zeal in this matter also, on condition that 100 denarii yields (monthly) interest of ten asses. In this way it is not burdensome for the person who undertakes on both my and the homeland's behalf, so that my nephew, Simonides, son and grandson of Simonides, great grandson of Moles, has promised publicly to pay the rent for the first three year period. I offer all my thanks not only for this alone but also because he has undertaken the agonothesia of the first festival after me, so that, having performed his duties he leaves behind a model for the agonothete who will be elected after him.
Since, together with the interest from the three-year period, without compound interest 3,450 denarii are collected along with the 1,000 denarii from the year in which the festival is held, 4450 denarii in all. as large a sum shall be provided for the prizes of the competition to each of the victors as is given by the province in the civic festivals held in the cities, apart from the penteteric games, that is 1,900 denarii in all; and 600 denarii shall be given for hired shows, and for theatrical displays, and for gymnastic competitions in which only the citizens will compete, a total of 150 denarii shall be divided among the individual contestants and the remaining 1,800 denarii, and anything that is by chance remaining from the prizes of competitors who by chance do not appear, will be given as judges' fees to the members of the council and to the sitometroumenoi, since the councilors should serve as judges and sitometroumenoi who are not members of the council should be picked by lot until a total of 500 is achieved, so that each receives 3 denarii; and the remaining 300 denarii and anything left over from the prizes shall be divided between the citizens who are not sitometroumenoi and the freedmen and the paroikoi.
When I or my heirs designate the estates, then Simonides, the eikosaprotos of the first three year period, or whoever the city shall choose from time to time in other three years periods, will collect and lend out the income from them, as has been written above, and will take care that the lands do not deteriorate, and that the income from them is not diminished.
It will be necessary in the elections held in the year before the festival to choose an agonothete from the members of the council, who pays nothing from his own funds but who will square the income and expenditure and render accounts in the month of Audnaios (March) of the year following the festival to three of the eikosaprotoi, whoever the city appoints, who will adjudicate in the sanctuary of the ancestral god Apollo, so that religious respect for the god may be added to natural fair dealing. The agonothete will use the title, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, agonothete of the first (second, third) festival of the Demostheneia, as the year indicates. But if anyone transgresses any of these provisions or diminishes, or directs for any other purpose the income, or the estates, or their price if they have been sold, or commits some fraud, or proposes or passes a decree or petitions a governor with a view to preventing any of my instructions from being carried out, whether he be a magistrate or a private citizen, he shall pay a fine of 2,500 denarii to the ancestral god Apollo to be the property of the temple, and 5,000 denarii to the most sacred treasury of the emperor, and the person who provides information about this matter and assists my project will receive an eighth part of this sum ; and my estates and those of my descendants will not be diminished.
The arrangements and dates of the competitions are set out below in this announcement:
On the Augustus day of Artemeisios (July 1): a competition for trumpeters and heralds, in which the victors are given a prize of 50 denarii;
after the meeting of the council and the assembly on the 5th: a competition for writers on encomia in prose, in which the victors will be given 75 denarii;
the 6th day will be left clear because of the market that takes places then;
the 7th: a competition for poets, in which the victors will be given 75 denarii;
the 8th and 9th: a competition for playing the flute players with chorus: the first prize winner will be given 125 denarii, and the second 75 denarii;
the 10th and 11th: a competition for comic poets, the first prize winner will be given 200 denarii, the second 100 denarii;
the 12th: a sacrifice for ancestral Apollo;
the13th and 14th: a competition for tragic poets, the first prize winner will be given 250 denarii, and the second 125 denarii;
the 15th: second sacrifice to ancestral Apollo;
the 16th and 17th: competition for citharodes, who will receive as first prize 300 denarii and as second prize 150 denarii;
the 18th: an open competition for all, for which will be given a first prize of 150 denarii, a second prize of 100 denarii, and a third prize of 50 denarii, and 25 denarii will also be given to the person who provides the scenery;
the 19th, 20th and 21st: hired performers among which shall be mime artists, acts and displays, for which prizes are not provided; and the other acts which are for the benefit of the city are hired for these days, for which 600 denarii will be paid;
the 22nd: gymnic competitions for citizens, on which 150 denarii will be spent.
III. When Licinianus Lyson was high priest of the emperors, on 4 Artemeisios (July 5), the preliminary proposal of Comon son of Croesus, Veranius son of Comon, and Simonides, son and grandson of Simonides, great grandson of Diogenes, was written down concerning the measures taken with a view to realizing the festival of the Demostheneia in our community, and concerning all the measures relevant to it, and Julius Demosthenes, our most excellent citizen who also founded the festival, a man of the greatest distinction, outstanding in reputation, ancestry, and character not only in his home city but also in the province, has come forward and in addition to all the other good things that he has provided for the city, in founding public buildings and making benefactions unceasingly, and for the penteteric musical festival which he himself has established at his own expense, has promised that he will, in addition, and at his own expense, make ready and dedicate to the city a golden crown carrying relief portraits of the emperor Nerva Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus and our leader, the ancestral god Apollo, which the agonothete will wear, and an altar decorated with silver which has an inscription to the dedicator—the council has praised the....man for his continuous goodwill to the city and for his present patriotic zeal and his unsurpassed great heartedness and his devotion to the emperors, and honored him with every honor, and has passed the following decree so that the festival should be adorned in every way, and that devotion to the emperor who has supported it should be completely fulfilled:
The agonothete should wear the previously mentioned gold crown and a purple robe, and at the beginning of the new year should make the ceremonial entrance, performing the pious rituals for the emperor and the gods of the homeland on the Augustus day of the month of Dios (January 1) and processing in company with the other magistrates, and he should take a front seat at the meetings of the council and the assembly and at shows wearing the previously mentioned attire. In the year that he acts as agonothete, three panygeriarchs should be chosen by him from the councilors in order to take charge of the market and the supply of provisions at the festival and to inspect and organize the things that are offered for sale, and to punish those who disobey; likewise ten sebastophoroi should also be chosen by him who, wearing white clothing and a crown of celery leaves, will handle, bring forward and escort the images of the emperors, and the image of our ancestral god Apollo, and the previously mentioned holy altar; likewise twenty magistophoroi should also be chosen by him, who will lead the way dressed in white clothing without undergarments, also carrying shields and whips, and they will be in charge of good order in the theater as they have been instructed by the agonothete. All the previously mentioned officials shall be chosen from the citizens. Likewise, two agelarchs should be chosen by him from boys of the noblest families, who will additionally select around twenty children, whom they themselves will inspect, who will organize a race run with torches, and the victor should be crowned and honored by the city with a decree and, if he wishes, with a statue, the cost of which shall be borne by the agelarch himself, or, if not, should be content with the honor of a decree; but a sum can be assigned for this, as much as the agonothete chooses.
The following will process through the theater and will sacrifice together during the days of the festival, according to the way the agonothete gives written instructions for each communal sacrifice:
the agonothete himself: one bull;
the civic priest of the emperors and the priestess of the emperors: one bull;
the priest of Zeus: one bull;
the three panegyriarchs: one bull;
the secretary of the council and the five prytaneis: two bulls;
the two politikoi agoranomoi : one bull;
the two gymnasiarchs : one bull;
the four treasurers: one bull
the two paraphylakes : one bull;
the ephebarch : one bull;
the paidonomos : one bull;
the supervisor of public works: one bull;
of the villages
Thersenos with Armadu, Arissos, Merlakanda, Meha Oros, [...]lai, Kirbu, Euporoi, Oroata, [...]rake, Valo, and Yskapha, with their associated farmsteads: two bulls;
Orpenna Siepla with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Ogarsan [...] with Lakistaunda and Kakasboi Killu and their associated farmsteads: [...]bull (?);
[.]yrnea with Nigyrassos with its associated farmsteads: one bull;
Vauta Marakanda with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Milgeipotamos Vedesa with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Prinolithos Kolabe [...] with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Kerdebota Palangeimanake with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Minaunda Pan[..]syera with associated farmsteads: one bull;
Ornessos, Aetu nossia, Korapsa with their associated farmsteads: one bull;
[...]a Sapondoanda with associated farmsteads: one bull.
No one has authority to exact a tax for these sacrifices.
The demarchs and the archidecanoi, in villages where there are archidecanoi, should assume supervision of the village sacrifices, with the agonothete making provision in the year before the festival that demarchs and archidecanoi are chosen for the year of the agonothesia, and indicating one man from each village from those who take part in the common sacrifice who must make provision for the sacrifice. if any of those previously mentioned does not take part in the common sacrifice, he will pay a fine of 300 drachmas to the city as if he had received a judicial sentence, with the agonothete making the names of those who participate in the common sacrifice and join the procession public, and making the names of those who do not participate in the sacrifice public, so that those who ought to have payment extracted from them by the city are conspicuous.
The sacrifices that are sent by other cities
These should also be escorted with a procession through the theater at the time that they are sent, and the decrees that are sent by the cities should be lodged in the archives by the incumbent magistrates, and the agonothete should write a reply to the cities concerning their participation in the sacrifice. Those who have already served as agonothete should sit in the front row in the festival with the agonothete.
There should be no taxes throughout the whole period of the festival on any goods sold, sacrificed, imported, introduced or exported during all the days of the festival.
On the first day of the elections of the year before his own agonothesia, the agonothete should propose the most suitable of the councilors as (next) agonothete, there being a proposal, counter-proposal and a five year period of exemption from official duties, covering two years before the festival and three years after the festival, and all the other regulations being observed as also exist for the priest of the emperors according to the laws concerning the elections; and on 30 Hyperberetaios (December 31) of the year of his agonothesia, the agonothete shall hand over the crown, with its weight checked, and the altar, unweighed but in sound condition, just as he had received it, to the agonothete who succeeds him and this should be recorded in the archives.
All the other arrangements should be just as laid out by the public promise of the most distinguished Gaius Julius Demosthenes and the decrees concerning these matters that have been confirmed by the most divine Imperator Nerva Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus.
A stone stele should be set up by the agonothete C. Julius Simonides, and this should be placed in the stoa in front of the food market next to the standing statue of the most distinguished Julius Demosthenes, and on it should be inscribed the public promises, and the most sacred letter of Imperator Nerva Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus, and the decrees of the council and assembly concerning the festival; and Julius Demosthenes has indicated that he will bear the expense to be incurred for the stele from his own funds.
Concerning the festival's tax free status and the agonothete's exemption from official duties, it was decided that the most distinguished governor Flavius Aper should be petitioned, and that ambassadors should be chosen in the assembly to approach him, and that a proposal concerning all the matters which had been decreed should be put to the assembly, so that it might be confirmed by it. And there should be a written approach by the people to the governor through its decree concerning the festival's tax free status, and the agonothete's exemption from office, and ambassadors should be chosen.
IV. The council and the people of the Termessians at Oenoanda decided: Gaius Julius Demosthenes, of the Fabian tribe, a friend of all the governors, and personally known to the emperors for the most excellent reasons, in addition to all the other ways in addition to all the other ways in which he has benefitted the homeland, as he has dedicated a food market and stoas at his own expense and at every opportunity made abundant provisions available, has founded, in addition, from his own finances, a penteteric musical festival, equal in prize money to the civic festival that are held in the province, which the divine Imperator Nerva Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus has also recognized and confirmed; and furthermore, during the meeting of the council that has just now taken place in the month of Iulius, he has come forward and made a public declaration that he will dedicate to the city a gold crown and an altar decorated with silver for the reverence of the emperors and for the adornment of the city. Wherefore a testimonial should be sent on his behalf to the most distinguished governor Flavius Aper, and this man should be asked to confirm exemption from office for the adgonothete and tax-free status for items that are imported, introduced, sold, exported, and put up for sale during the days of the festival, which we have decreed, since other governors have already given us permission by edicts to grant exemption from duties to new magistracies that have been created after the codification of our laws just as is the case for previously existing magistracies, and to hold festivals in the cities under their control, so that we, as a consequence of his philanthropy, may share the benefits that he provides and in this way the city may be enhanced.
C. Licinnius Thoas, C. Licinnius Fronto, HREF="">Tlepolemos son of Croesus, Diogenes, son and grandson of Diogenes, great grandson of Moles, and Croesus son of Tlepolemos were chosen as ambassadors from the first men of our community to present him with this decree.
V. The person who is established as agonothete for this competition shall have five-year exemption from duties...and there shall be tax-free status during the days of the competition, if you take care that the city's revenues are in no way diminished. The ambassadors were C. Licinnius Thoas, C. Licinnius Fronto, Tlepolemos Diogenes, son of Croesus, son and grandson of Diogenes, great grandson of Moles, and Croesus, son of Tlepolemos.