Conclusion of a decree of an unknown Boiotian city recognizing the Ptoia, followed by the beginning of a decree of Thisbe.  Fragmentary half-cylinder of bluish gray marble.
[ ] Boiotia — Akraiphia — Ptoion: Sanct. of Apollo Ptoios (Perdikovrysi) — late 2nd c. BC — IG VII 4139 (cont. of Thisbean decree) — P. Roesch, Études béotiennes (1982) 230, n. 118 (reading, l. 15)
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[— — — — — ἀποδέξασθαι τήν τε θυσίαν κ]αὶ ἐκεχει[ρίαν]
[καὶ ἀσφάλειαν καθὼς καὶ πρότερον συν]θύσοντας καὶ
[συμπομπεύσοντας εἰς τὸν ἀγῶνα τῶν Πτωΐω]ν, ἐπαινέσαι
[δὲ τοὺς παραγενομένους πρεσβευτὰς καὶ θεω]ροὺς ἐπὶ τῆι κα-
5 [θηκούσηι] ἐνδημ[ίαι καὶ ἀναστροφῆι, καλέσα]ι δὲ αὐτοὺς
[καὶ ἐπ]ὶ ξένια ἐπὶ [τὴν κοινὴν ἑστ]ίαν, καὶ τὰ φιλάν-
[θρωπα δοῦναι καθ]ὼς κ[αὶ πρότερο]ν [α]ὐτοῖς κατὰ
[τὸν νόμο]ν· ὑπο[δεξάσθω δὲ ὁ] ἐπὶ [τῆς ὑπ]ο[δοχ]ῆς ἄρχων·
[δοῦναι δὲ] καὶ εἰς ἐπαρ[χὴν τ]οῖς θεω[ροῖ]ς ἀ[ργυρίο]υ
10 [δραχμὰς δ]ύο καὶ τριώβολ[ο]ν.
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Δέξιππος Σωστράτου [εἶ]πεν· ἐπ[ε]ιδὴ παρα[γ]ενόμενο[ι]
πρεσβευτ<α>ὶ παρὰ τῆς πόλεως τῶν Ἀκραιφι[έω]ν Πυθίων
καὶ Φιλόμηλος, οἱ δὲ αὐτοὶ καὶ θεωροὶ γράμματα ἀπέδ[ωκαν]
15 ἐν οἷς διεσαφεῖτο ἐξαπεστάλ[θα]ι αὐτοὺς ὑπό τε [τοῦ συ]-
νεδρίου κα[ὶ] τοῦ ἀγωνοθέτου τῶ[ν Πτωΐ]ων Ποτά[μωνος]
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