Didyma: -253 To -253 Letter of Antiochos II to Metrophanes concerning a sale of land to queen Laodike

region:
Ionia
City:
Didyma
Place of Publication:
http://nomisma.org/id/miletus
Place of Conception:
http://nomisma.org/id/miletus
reference in full:
I.Didyma 492B
reference:
I.Didyma
Reference Number:
492B
Bibliographic URL:
https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000321101
date:
253 BCE
date cert:
CERTAIN
date from:
-253
date to:
-253
description:
Letter of Antiochos II to Metrophanes concerning a sale of land to queen Laodike
notes on the monument findspot:
I.Didyma 492A-B were inscribed on the same stele.
phi url:
https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/247011?bookid=489&location=1688
PHI ID:
247011
TM ID:
842079
Document Type:
Official letter
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References to monetary behaviour (2)

PLACE OF TRANSACTION AUTHORITY ACTIVITY PURPOSE/FOCUS CONTEXT/FIELD OF ACTION LINES Monetary Material Commodity Coin Denomination/Unit of Monetary Measurement NOTES
http://nomisma.org/id/miletus Hellenistic monarch Spending Property (land) Sale ll. 17-39 Silver Talent (τάλαντον) Laodike's purchase of land from Antiochos II; price of the villages and estates mentioned as 30 silver talents.
http://nomisma.org/id/miletus Hellenistic monarch Spending Publication Uncertain ll. 40-59 Provisions for five copies of the document to be inscribed.