Ephesos (Ionia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), 88/89 CE
AGRW 163 =
IEph 213
= NewDocs IV 22
= PHI 247918
= AGRW ID# 1281
Copenhagen Inventory info: 1611
To Lucius Mestrius Florus, proconsul, from Lucius Pompeius Apollonios of Ephesos. Mysteries and sacrifices are performed each year in Ephesos, lord, to Demeter Karpophoros (“Fruit–Bringer”) and Thesmophoros (“Law–Bringer”) and to the Augustan (Sebastoi) gods by initiates (mystai) with great purity and lawful customs, together with the priestesses. For many years these rites were protected by kings and emperors (Sebastoi), (10) as well as the proconsul of the period, as contained in their enclosed letters. Accordingly, as the mysteries are pressing upon us during your time of office, through my agency the ones obligated to accomplish the mysteries necessarily petition you, lord, in order that, acknowledging their rights…
Translation by: HarlandItem added: December 8, 2011
Item modified: November 6, 2020
ID number: 1281
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