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Royal Correspondence · 希腊化王室书信

The 30 chancery letters of the Hellenistic kings preserved on stone, edited after C. B. Welles, Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period (Yale, 1934) — the kings answering cities, sanctuaries and officials. Grouped by royal house, newest dynasty-foundations first. 希腊化诸王刻于石上的王室公文书信，30 通，依 Welles《希腊化时期王室书信》(1934) 编订，按王朝分组。

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Antigonid & early Successors

4 letters

Letter of Antigonus to Scepsis

Antigonus I to Teos: the synoecism with Lebedus (the grain fund and the laws of Cos)

Lysimachus to Priene: praise for the city's fidelity and the grant of favours

Lysimachus to Samos: the arbitration of the Batinetis boundary dispute

Hellenistic →

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Seleucid

11 letters

Seleucus I to Miletus: the gift of offerings to Apollo at Didyma

Antiochus I to Meleager: the grants of crown land to Aristodikides of Assos

Letter of Antiochus II to Erythrae

Antiochus II and the sale of land to Queen Laodice (the Pannou-kome dossier)

Letter of Seleucus II to Miletus

Antiochus III to Magnesia + the Cretan koinon decree: the asylia / Leucophryene-games dossier (Welles RC 31 = OGIS 231; Magnesia 40-41)

Antiochus III: the cult of Queen Laodice and the chief-priestess Berenike

Antiochus III: a chief-priest for the sanctuaries of Daphne (Welles RC 44 = OGIS 244)

Seleucus IV to Seleucia-in-Pieria: honours for Aristolochos, a Friend of three generations

Antiochus VIII Grypus: the freedom of Seleucia in Pieria (Welles RC 71-72 = OGIS 257)

A king Antiochus to Euphemus: the grant of Baetocaece to Zeus (Welles RC 70 = OGIS 262)

Hellenistic →

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Ptolemaic

2 letters

Ptolemy II to Miletus: praising the city's fidelity and promising support

Ptolemy IV(?) to a governor: relief from billeting for Soli

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Attalid

6 letters

Eumenes I to Pergamon: praising the retiring generals for their financial administration

Attalus to Amlada: the release of the hostages and relief from payments

Eumenes II to the Ionian League: accepting the honours voted him

Eumenes II and Attalus II to Attis of Pessinus: the seven letters (with the war-council)

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

An Attalid king to an official: the regulation of a priesthood of Zeus

Hellenistic →

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Other royal houses

5 letters

The Plutonium of Nysa: two royal confirmations (Welles RC 9 & 64 = SIG³ 781)

Ziaelas of Bithynia to Cos: the inviolability of the Asclepieion

Theodorus and Amynander of Athamania to Teos: the city sacred, inviolable and tax-free

Mithridates VI to Leonippus: the pursuit of Chaeremon of Nysa (Welles RC 73-74 = SIG³ 741)

Artabanus III of Parthia to Susa: validating the city treasurer's election (Welles RC 75)

Hellenistic →

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Multi-king replies

2 letters

Three more royal replies to Cos: Seleucus II (?), Ptolemy III and Attalus I (?) recognize the Asklepieia

Three royal replies to Magnesia: the son Antiochus, Ptolemy IV and Attalus I recognize the Leucophryena