Attalus III to the two Hieracomes: temple privileges confirmed (Welles RC 68-69 = OGIS 333/332) magalia.wiki — Epigraphy Matrix Hub reading text and apparatus afterC. B. Welles, Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period (New Haven 1934), nos. 68-69 (text, translation, commentary; the reading text here). magalia.wiki — Epigraphy Matrix Hub magalia.wiki — Epigraphy Matrix Hub Beijing 2026 magalia.wiki welles-attalus-hieracome Welles RC 68-69 (= OGIS 333, 332) 333 332 68 69 332-333 68-69 CC-BY 4.0 — EpiDoc TEI edition for study and reuse. see provenanceWelles RC 68-69 (= OGIS 333, 332) 333 332 68 69 332-333 68-69 Two Attalid temple-stones: the Lydian Hierakome block (RC 68, asylia of the Persian Goddess) and the more fragmentary Carian Hiera Kome stone (RC 69, Apollo). Well-preserved block, script 4 cm; line-ends restored after 138 BCE Pergamon Sarıçam near Manisa (the Lydian Hierokome of the Persian Goddess) — Good; engraver's slip at l.2 (doubled ν) C. B. Welles, Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period (New Haven 1934), nos. 68-69 (text, translation, commentary; the reading text here). W. Dittenberger, Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae I (Leipzig 1903), nos. 333 (RC 68) and 332 (RC 69) — the standard prior editions (cited). RC 68: A. Fontrier, Mouseion … Smyrnes VI (1885/6) 28; P. Foucart, BCH XI (1887) 81-84; F. Schroeter, De Regum Hellenisticorum Epistulis (1932) 51. RC 69: W. J. Hamilton, Researches in Asia Minor II (1842); P. Le Bas & W. H. Waddington, Asie Mineure III 210 (1870); restorations after L. Robert. Linked data and external resources Pleiades 550812 magalia.wiki edition

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 Ancient Greek English Attalus III PhilometorLast king of PergamonReigned 138-133 BCE; bequeathed his kingdom to Rome at his death. Issues both confirmations of temple privilege. The Lydian HierakomeTemple-community (RC 68)The 'Holy Village' of the Persian Goddess (Anaitis), whose envoys brought two decrees seeking confirmation of the temple's asylia. A royal governorAddressee of RC 69The official to whom Attalus III notifies the tax-exemption granted to the Carian Hiera Kome of Apollo. The Carian Hiera Kome of ApolloTemple-community (RC 69)The inhabitants (κατοικοῦντες) of a Carian 'Holy Village' of Apollo, granted the tax-exemption they had petitioned for.
Attalus III to the two Hieracomes: temple privileges confirmed (Welles RC 68-69 = OGIS 333/332) — edition Ἀσυλίαν τῆς παρ' ὑμῖν Περσικῆς θεᾶς ἐπὶ τούτωι βεβαιῶ ὑμεῖν Ἀσυλίαν τῆς παρ' ὑμῖν Περσικῆς θεᾶς ἐπὶ τούτωι βεβαιῶ ὑμεῖνν, ἐφ' ᾧ μηδὲν ἐν τῆι δωρεᾷ ταύτηι ἀλλαγῆναι· τὴν συνήθειαν ἣν ἔχετε, εἴπερ ἀληθῶς τά γραφέντα λαβόντες παρά τε τῶν πρόσθεν καὶ τῶν ἐμῶν προγόνων ταύτηι χρῆσθε. δύο δὲ ὄντων ψηφισμάτων ἃ μοι ἔδωκαν οἱ ὑμέτεροι πρέσβεις καὶ σχεδὸν ὁμοίων μίαν πρὸς αὐτὰ ὑπηγόρευσα ἐπιταγήν, ἣν γραφεῖσαν τύπῳ τοῖς δυσὶν ὑμῶν πρέσβεσιν ἐκέλευσα δοθῆναι καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα τὰ τῶν συμπρεσβευσάντων αὐτοῖς ἐγγραφῆναι. Βασιλεὺς Ἄτταλος — — — χαίρειν· — — —ος τοῦ ἐν τῇ Ἱερᾷ Κώμῃ — — — ἀνέδωκεν ἀξίωμα δι' οὗ ἐδέ- οντο — — —ησιον Ἱερᾶς Κώμης κατοι- κοῦντες — — — τὰ ἱδρυμένα τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι — — — εἰς τὰς τοῦ θεοῦ θεραπείας — — — καθὼς ἀπ' ἀρχῆς εἶχεν. ἐγὼ δὲ θέλων βεβαιοῦν τὰ ὑπὸ τῶν πρὸ ἐμοῦ βασι- λέων συγχωρηθέντα, αὔξειν τε καὶ τὰ τῶν θε- ῶν τίμια, ἔδωκα αὐτοῖς ὡς ἠξίουν τὴν ἀτέ- λειαν — — —
Attalus III to the two Hieracomes: temple privileges confirmed (Welles RC 68-69 = OGIS 333/332) — translation
Attalus III confirms the asylia of the Persian Goddess's temple, on condition the custom is unchanged and the grant descends from former kings (ll. 1–12)

The inviolability of the Persian Goddess in your city I hereby confirm to you, on condition that nothing be changed in this grant; and that you enjoy the custom which you have, if in fact you enjoy it on the grounds of having truly received the written grants from former rulers and from my ancestors. There being two almost identical decrees which your envoys gave me, I have dictated a single order in response to them, a written abstract of which I have ordered given to your two envoys; and I have ordered the names of those who served as co-envoys with them to be inscribed in it.

Attalus III tells a governor he confirms earlier kings' grants and gives the Carian Hierakome of Apollo the tax-exemption it requested (heavily restored) (ll. 1–11)

King Attalus to [a governor], greeting. … of the (temple) in the Hiera Kome … presented a petition through which the inhabitants of the Hiera Kome asked … the things dedicated to Apollo … for the services of the god … as it was from the beginning. And I, wishing to confirm what was granted by the kings before me, and to increase the honours of the gods, have given them, as they requested, the tax-exemption … (the text breaks off).

Attalus III to the two Hieracomes: temple privileges confirmed (Welles RC 68-69 = OGIS 333/332) — commentary

Attalus III guarantees the inviolability (asylia) of the temple of the Persian Goddess — Anaitis, whose Iranian cult had been planted in Lydia under the Achaemenids — in the village's own Hiera Kome. The confirmation is conditional: the village's existing custom must be unchanged, and the privilege must truly descend from 'former rulers and my ancestors.' The village had sent two nearly identical decrees through its envoys; the king has dictated a single written abstract in reply and ordered the co-envoys' names inscribed. (At l.2 the cutter doubled the ν of ὑμεῖν.)

The second, much more fragmentary letter is addressed to a royal governor concerning a different 'Holy Village' — a Carian Hiera Kome with a temple of Apollo. Through what survives the king refers to a petition (axiōma) of the village's inhabitants about the things dedicated to Apollo and the god's services 'as it was from the beginning,' and declares that he, wishing to confirm what the kings before him had granted and to increase the gods' honours, has given the inhabitants the tax-exemption (ateleia) they requested. The left margin of almost every line is lost; the supplements (Welles, after Robert) are editorial.

Critical apparatus (heavily restored) — the left margin of almost every line of RC 69 is lost; the supplements (Welles, after Robert) are editorial and bracketed, the lacunae marked '— — —'. ὑμεῖν{ν} — the engraver doubled the ν of ὑμεῖν (a cutting error; Welles, Introd. p.lv); the surplus ν is bracketed for deletion. ἀληθ[ῶς τά] — so Rostovtzeff (Welles's text); Fontrier read ἀληθ[ινῶς], Dittenberger (OGIS 333) ἀληθ[ῆ ἐστιν ἃ]. ἐδέ[οντο] — '(through which) they asked' — restored by L. Robert; characteristic of the heavy restoration RC 69 requires.
Editions and commentary C. B. Welles, Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period (New Haven 1934), nos. 68-69 (text, translation, commentary; the reading text here). W. Dittenberger, Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae I (Leipzig 1903), nos. 333 (RC 68) and 332 (RC 69) — the standard prior editions (cited). RC 68: A. Fontrier, Mouseion … Smyrnes VI (1885/6) 28; P. Foucart, BCH XI (1887) 81-84; F. Schroeter, De Regum Hellenisticorum Epistulis (1932) 51. RC 69: W. J. Hamilton, Researches in Asia Minor II (1842); P. Le Bas & W. H. Waddington, Asie Mineure III 210 (1870); restorations after L. Robert.