Cités, rois et Romains

gave four lectures in early 2022, entitled "Cities, Kings and Romans: New Epigraphic Texts from Asia Minor".The central focus of the conference cycle was the Greek city-state during the Hellenistic and Roman periods.On the basis of four unedited epigraphic texts found during survey and excavation activities in Caria, Cilicia and Ionia and copied during the years 2017-2021, the relations of cities to other poleis as well as to the dominant powers (Hellenistic kings, client kings and Romans) were examined.The inscriptions belong to different categories but are all of an official nature. I. The Isopoliteia Treaty between Magnesia on the Maeander and TeosThis 121-line long isopolity treaty, cut on a 3.1 m. high marble stele, was discovered during excavation work in Magnesia (Ionia) in the temenos of Artemis Leukophryene in 2008.It bears the heading [] and presents itself in the main text (lines 8 and 23-24) as the renewal of older agreements.Since the text includes non-aggression and military assistance clauses, epigamy and enktesis in addition to isopoliteia, it seems likely that earlier agreements had indeed been revised.A similar treaty of an older type also existed between Magnesia and Phokaia (I.Magnesia 7b with S. Saba, Isopoliteia in Hellenistic Times, Leiden, 2020, 85, 98-100).It probably dates back to the 4th century B.C.The close similarities in the calendar of these three cities and other indications suggest that Magnesia, Phokaia and Teos had maintained good relations with one other since the archaic period.On the Magnesian side, a considerable number of magistrates was involved in the formation and composition of the new treaty.Twelve polemarchs, two hipparchs, three oikonomoi, a strategos and the grammateus of the council are mentioned with name and patronymic.Some of these persons were already attested on coins and inscriptions from the late 3rd century.Among them is Lampon, son of Mandrodorus, who held the same position of under several stephanophors in the last decade of the 3rd century (I.Magnesia 89, 90).Our isopoliteia-treaty is dated to the stephanophorate of Kydias son of Isodoros, who is otherwise unknown.The Teian side was represented by the ambassadors Pythagoras, son of Kleitos, and Theodoros, son of Euboulos.The same Pythagoras is mentioned in several asylia documents from c. 203/2.He travelled with his brother Kleitos to Hellas, where he visited

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