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KALYMNA

This is a decree reciting the many services
rendered by Aratokritos, son of Aristias, to the
city of Kalymna, and to certain of its citizens, by
ransoming prisoners and by other liberal acts. The
decree further states that Aratokritos now wishes
to ornament the Hieron of the Delian Apollo by
adding to the Theatre within its precincts a Skene
and Proskenion, in order that Melic and Choric
contests may be celebrated in honour of the Gods
and benefactors, and in accordance with the wish of
the Demos; the site for these buildings which he
asks for is granted, and it is further decreed that
Aratokritos is to be honoured with an eiraivos, that
a copy of this decree is to be engraved on the
Skene, and that on the Proskenion be engraved the
following dedication : ‘ Aratokritos, son of Aristias,
being Stephanephoros, (dedicates) the Skene and
Proskenion to the Delian Apollo.’
Within the precincts of this temple I found a base
dedicated to /CaXXio-JrpaTT/jthe daughter of Aratokritos.
This may be the person commemorated in this de-

cree (see also cclii post}. Aratokritos was evidently
of a rich family, as the decree mentions, lines i, 2,
that his parents had also been public benefactors.
On a piece of Doric architrave now built into the
inner face of the western wall of the church of
Christos, over the doorway, Ross copied the letters
NA . . PHlAIArOAA (see his Reisen, ii, p. 98), and
remarks that they are probably the remains of the
dedicatory inscription on some votive monument
near the Temple of Apollo. There can hardly be
a doubt that this inscribed fragment of architrave,
which Ross describes as of small dimensions, was
once part of the proskenion. We may thus restore the
inscription on it 2TE<PA]NA\QO]PHSA2AnOAA[QNI.
The Stephanephoros is mentioned in another Ka-
lymnian decree, post., No. ccxcvm.
The theatre at Epidauros stood within the Hieron.
Pausan. ii, 27, § 5.
Lines 4, 5. K[a'Pv[r€v]0€iy. Compare Demosth.
adv. Phorm. ed. Reiske, 915, 13, ra \p-qp.aTa rjSr]
KLvSvveverai. tS> SavetcravTi.

CCXXXII.

On a stele of white marble, surmounted by a pediment. This stele has been broken into four pieces. Height, 3 ft. 2 in.;
breadth, 1 ft. i| in. Temple of Apollo, Kalymna; C. T. N.

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