Associations in the Greco-Roman World (AGRW)

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Donation (frag.) of Burial Plots and a Temple for an Association (III BCE) Kamiros on Rhodes - Southeastern islands


Kamiros on Rhodes (Southeastern islands, Aegean Islands — Pleiades map), III BCE
IG XII, 1 736 = Jules Martha, "Inscription de Rhodes: Donation au profit d’une communauté d’éranistes," BCH 4 (1880) 138-145 = PHI 139284 = AGRW ID# 14611


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Slab, broken at the top and bottom (27 x 28 x 9 cm)

. . . he provided a gift of burial plots (taphiai) to the association (koinon) of contributors (eranistai) on the land which is in Rhogkyos on the road leading from Angyleia to Hippoteia, measuring 25 armspans long (about 150 feet = 45 metres) by 16 armspans wide (96 feet = 29 metres) and marked by boundary stones.  He also gave another gift of a property in the neighbourhood (ktoina), a gift of a sanctuary (temenos) of Asklepios, Apollo, and Aphrodite . . . making . . . the boundary stones. . . . (remainder lost).

Translation by: Harland



[—]ΕΥ[— — —] | [ἐ]ρανιστᾶν τῶι κοινῶι ἔ|δωκε δωρεὰν ἐς ταφία | τᾶς γᾶς τᾶς ἐν Ῥογκύ̣(?)ω[ι] || ὡς ἁ ὁδὸς ἁ φέρουσα ἐξ Ἀ̣[γ]||γυλείας εἰς | Ἱπποτείαν | μᾶκος ὀργυᾶν εἴκοσι πέν|τε, πλάτος ὀργυᾶν δεκα|έξ, ὡς ὅροι κεῖνται· || δωρεὰν καὶ ἄλλον τόπον | ἐν τᾶι κτοίναι· δωρεὰν | τὸ τέμενος τοῦ Ἀσκλαπ[ι]|οῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἀπόλ[λωνος καὶ] | τᾶς Ἀφροδίτα[ς — — —] || ποιούμενος [— — —] | τ̣οὺ[ς] ὅρο[υς — — —]

Facsimile of IG XII, 1 736 (from Martha).

Item added: October 6, 2013
Item modified: March 17, 2015
ID number: 14611
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