Magnesia on the Maeander area [Söke] (Caria, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), II-I BCE
SEG 31 (1981), no. 983
= PHI 253091
= AGRW ID# 12159
… provided sufficient wine previously … he had promised … x metrētai … Name son of Protomachos provided sufficient wine; he had promised 100 metrētai (i.e. 100 x 40 litres = 4000 litres). Dionysios son of Dionysios provided sufficient wine, cooks, and musicians (10) for the banquet and … x choinikes (a choinix was about 1 kg) of bread. … Poseidonios son of Menandros by adoption, son of Andron by birth, and grandson of Epikouros has promised to the fellow–bacchants (synbakchoi) 160 cistophoric coins to purchase the place for the Bacchic festival.
Translation by: KloppenborgItem added: May 14, 2013
Item modified: December 10, 2015
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