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<title><idno type="filename">CGRN 107</idno>: <rs type="textType" key="decree">Decree</rs> concerning the donation of Agasikles and Nikagora to Poseidon at Kalaureia</title>
<author>Jan-Mathieu Carbon</author>
<author>Saskia Peels</author>
<author>Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge</author></titleStmt>
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<authority>Collection of Greek Ritual Norms, F.R.S.-FNRS Project no. 2.4561.12, University of Liège.</authority>
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<p><rs type="objectType">Stele</rs> of bluish marble, built into a base and cast therein with lead. </p>
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<p> The text seems to consist of two parts, lines 1-10, the first part is badly damaged. The second part (line 11 onwards) records a decision by the people concerning the use of the donated money.</p>
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<p><origDate notBefore="-0300" notAfter="-0200">3rd century BC</origDate></p>
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<head>Bibliography</head>
<p> Edition here based on Fraenkel <bibl type="abbr" n="IG IV">IG IV</bibl> 841. </p>
<p> Other edition: <bibl type="author_date" n="Wide - Kjellberg 1895">Wide - Kjellberg 1895</bibl>: 287-293 no. 2.</p>
<p> Cf. also:
Ziehen <bibl type="abbr" n="LGS II">LGS II</bibl> 53;
Sokolowski <bibl type="abbr" n="LSCG">LSCG</bibl> 59;
Brodersen <bibl type="abbr" n="HGIU">HGIU</bibl> 348;
<bibl type="author_date" n="Guarducci 1974">Guarducci 1974</bibl>: 249-250;
<bibl type="author_date" n="Guarducci 1987">Guarducci 1987</bibl>: 260;
<bibl type="abbr" n="SEG">SEG</bibl> 38, 324.</p>
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<p>[...] Aris[t... to] Poseidon [... to (?)] Eukleia [...] the [...] (5) from him according (?) [...] and Nikagora Sot[...], Laodika, Dionysia [...] and if [Agasikles] or Nikagora have freed any women, they are to participate [... son of] (10) Thearichos.</p>
<p>When Sophanes the son of Poli[...] was treasurer, in the month Gerastios. The citizens have decided with respect to the money and the land that Agasikles and Nikagora dedicated to Poseidon: (15) to appoint two <foreign>epimeletai</foreign> who lend out the money at an interest, 30 drachmae at a time, under securities or satisfactory pledges given to the <foreign>epimeletai</foreign>, who farm out the land according to a contract with the assembly, (20) and who, having received the interest on the money and the rent of the land, sacrifice to Poseidon an adult animal, and to Zeus Soter an adult animal, having set up an altar in front of their statues near the bouleuterion. (25) They will make the sacrifice, just as it is written on the stele, every year, and take care of all other things as elegantly as possible, and introduce public examiners on the first day at the solemn libations and give an account to the examiners that have been chosen (30) on the following day and swear to Zeus Soter truly not to rob anything, and upon this solemn libation, let them choose the <foreign>epimeletai</foreign> for the next year on the first day.</p>
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<p>[...] Aris[t... à] Poséidon [... à (?)] Eukleia [...] les [...] (5) de lui selon (?) [...] et Nikagora Sot[...], Laodika, Dionysia [...] et si [Agasiklès] ou Nikagora ont affranchi certaines femmes, qu'ils/elles participent [... fils de] (10) Thearichos.</p>
<p>Alors qu’était trésorier Sophanos, fils de Poli[- - -], au mois de Geraistios, les citoyens ont décidé, à propos de l’argent et du terrain qu’Agasiklès et Nikagora ont offert en consécration à Poséidon, (15) qu’on institue deux épimélètes qui prêteront l’argent à intérêt pour 30 drachmes moyennant des garanties ou des hypothèques qui aient l’agrément des épimélètes et qui donneront le terrain en location selon un contrat avec l’assemblée. (20) Après avoir acquitté les intérêts de l’argent et le loyer du terrain, ils offriront en sacrifice à Poséidon un animal adulte et à Zeus Soter un animal adulte, ayant dressé un autel devant leurs statues qui se trouvent près du bouleuterion. (25) Ils célèbreront le sacrifice, conformément à ce qui a été écrit sur la stèle, chaque année, et ils s’occuperont de tout de la manière la plus élégante possible et ils introduiront en particulier des vérificateurs aux comptes le premier jour lors des libations solennelles et ils rendront compte (30) le jour suivant aux vérificateurs qui auront été choisis et ils jureront en outre par Zeus Soter de ne rien détourner, et sur cette libation solennelle, qu’ils choisissent les épimélètes pour l’année suivante le premier jour.</p>
<p>(traduction d'après Y. Lafond)</p>
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<p>As preserved, the inscription concerns a dedication to Poseidon by Agasikles and his wife Nikagora to Poseidon, consisting of a sum of money (of an unknown amount) and a piece of land (cf. lines 13-14). The donation was apparently entrusted to the <foreign>polis</foreign>, since the text records a decree passed by the people of Kalaureia concerning the use of these funds (lines 11-12ff.). Two caretakers or supervisors (<foreign>epimeletai</foreign>) are appointed annually by the city to lend out the money and farm out the land (lines 14-19). From the interest and proceeds, the performance of sacrifices to Poseidon and Zeus are to be funded. These annual rites are take place at altar constructed by the <foreign>epimeletai</foreign>, in front of the statues of Agasikrates and Nikagora which already appear to have been erected at or near the civic bouleuterion at Kalaureia (lines 19-25). For further sacrificial details, reference is made to what is "written on the stele" (lines 25-26, see below), apparently another document concerning the donation of this couple and the cult they instituted, but which has not been preserved. The final part of the inscription (lines 27ff.) prescribes the procedure for examining the work of the <foreign>epimeletai</foreign> and the selection of the <foreign>epimeletai</foreign> for the next year.</p>
<p>The inscription appears to be closely connected to another text from Kalaureia (<ref target="http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/CGRN_106/">CGRN 106</ref>) similarly recording the dedication of a sum of money to Poseidon by a woman called Agasikratis, who has a daughter also named Nikagora. Thus, she may have been the mother of the Nikagora in the present inscription, though this is not absolutely confirmed (the reading of Νικαγόρα Ζωτ- does not perfectly match, but would substantially improve if the final trace should be read as φ, Νικαγόρα Ζωφ-, so 'daughter of Sophanes'; τ appears clearly in Fränkel, but the trace is unclear in Wide - Kjellberg). The content and verbal formulation of <ref target="http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/CGRN_106/">CGRN 106</ref> is rather similar: there, too, an altar is to be set up near familial statues, adult (or 'unblemished') animals are to be sacrificed to Poseidon and Zeus Soter from the interest of the endowment, and <foreign>epimeletai</foreign> are appointed to manage these rituals. If the identification of Nikagora as daughter of Agasikratis is correct, this family would thus be linked to this sanctuary of Poseidon over multiple generations. Poseidon was the most important god of the island Kalaureia (Str. 8.6.14); there is archaeological evidence for a cult of Poseidon already in Mycenaean times. There seems to be no other evidence for the cult of Zeus Soter on Kalaureia/Poros.</p>
<p>Lines 1-10 and 25-26: We cannot make out much in the first ten lines, but given the dative τῶι Ποσειδᾶν[ι] (and perhaps an Artemis Eukleia?), and the name Νικαγόρα (twice), we may think that we have here a fragment of the act of endowment and foundation for the cult, with the specifications of the sacrifices to be made (Wide - Kjellberg). This is perhaps what is referred to in line 25 (καθὼς ἐν τᾶι στάλαι γέγραπται). Cp. <ref target="http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/CGRN_152/">CGRN 152</ref> (Thera), which similarly starts with a testament made by Epikteta and then records the decision made concerning it. The regulations given "on the stele", a document that is now lost, may alternatively have been the document recording the donation and the foundation itself. </p>
<p>Lines 28 and 31-32: The word σπονδή in these lines is not only to be taken as referring literally to libations, but also—in the second case, more clearly—accompanies the swearing of an oath to Zeus Soter, a preliminary gesture before the selection of new annual officials.</p>
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