Two letters of the late-Seleucid king Antiochus VIII Grypus, summer 109 BCE, recognizing Seleucia in Pieria — the dynasty's 'holy and inviolable' coastal city — as free for all time. In the first (RC 71) the king writes to his 'brother', King Ptolemy (IX) Alexander of Egypt: the Seleukeis had been loyal to his father from the first and steadfast toward himself through 'the most pressing critical times' (the dynastic wars), so he has decided they be free for all time and has included them in the treaties between the two kings — and writes so that Ptolemy too may know. The letter is dated to Seleucid year 203, Gorpiaeus 29. In the second (RC 72) he sends the Seleukeis themselves copies of this letter and of the one to the Roman Senate. The whole was inscribed on a stele whose upper-right corner survives — found, strikingly, at Kuklia (Palaepaphos) in Cyprus and now in the British Museum. The corpus's latest Seleucid document, and a vivid image of a weakened dynasty courting both a Ptolemy and Rome.塞琉古晚期国王安条克八世格律普斯之二函，公元前109年夏，承认皮埃里亚之塞琉西亚 —— 王朝「神圣且不可侵犯」之滨海之城 —— 永久自由。第一函（RC 71）国王致其「兄弟」、埃及国王托勒密（九世）亚历山大：塞琉西亚人自始忠于其父，于「最危急之时」（王朝内战）亦坚贞于己，故决意使之永久自由，并将其纳入两王之盟约 —— 书此以使托勒密亦知之。函署塞琉古纪元203年戈尔皮亚伊俄斯月29日。第二函（RC 72）则将此函及致罗马元老院之函之副本送予塞琉西亚人。全文刻于一碑，今存其右上角 —— 出人意料地出土于塞浦路斯之库克利亚（古帕福斯），今藏大英博物馆。乃本集最晚之塞琉古文书，亦一衰朝同时谄媚托勒密与罗马之生动写照。