Daldis: -165 To -164 Letter of Eumenes II to the settlers of Apollonioucharax (A), with a petition of the same community (B)

region:
Lydia
City:
Daldis
Place of Publication:
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis
Place of Conception:
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis
reference in full:
SEG 57.1150 = SEG 59.1376 = SEG 61.982 = SEG 65.1085
reference:
SEG 57
Reference Number:
1150
reference 2:
SEG 59
Reference Number:
1376
Bibliographic URL:
https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000856338
Bibliographic URL:
https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000856338
Bibliographic URL:
https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000856338
date:
165/164 BCE
date cert:
CERTAIN
date from:
-165
date to:
-164
description:
Letter of Eumenes II to the settlers of Apollonioucharax (A), with a petition of the same community (B)
notes on the monument findspot:
From Apollonioucharax near Daldis, at Taşkuyucak.
phi url:
https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/348814?bookid=172&location=1654
PHI ID:
348814
TM ID:
949580
Document Type:
Official letter
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References to monetary behaviour (16)

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/daldis Village Spending Embassy Uncertain A ll. 5-10
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Village Spending Military service Uncertain A ll. 1-2, 14-16, B ll. 1-4 Allusion to upheavals caused by war, and people who had evaded military service.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Regulation Tax-immunity Imperial A ll. 16-19 Grant of tax-immunity for five years.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Regulation Military service Imperial A ll. 19-22 Military service to be reduced to one in three being selected.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Regulation Tax-immunity Imperial A ll. 22-24 Dekate (δεκάτη) Exemption from the tithe for one year.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Spending Construction Uncertain A ll. 24-26, B ll. 9-11 Eumenes sends masons to the Apollonioucharakians to rebuild their settlement.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Regulation Priesthood Village B ll. 6-7 The priest Bacchios is to remain as priest.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Regulation Loan Uncertain B ll. 7-9 Silver Argyrion (unspecified silver money) (ἀργύριον) Remission of debts owed to the king, in both monetary and grain form.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Regulation Loan Uncertain B ll. 7-9 Grain Remission of debts owed to the king, in both monetary and grain form.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Village Contract Property (land) Sale B ll. 12-14 Drachma (δραχμή) Earlier agreement with a certain Meleagros to receive back the village Sibloe after making payment, perhaps as a result of borrowing money on the security of the Sibloe; the price is indicated as 448 drachmas and 1.5 obols.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Village Contract Property (land) Sale B ll. 12-14 Obol (ὀβολός) Earlier agreement with a certain Meleagros to receive back the village Sibloe after making payment, perhaps as a result of borrowing money on the security of the Sibloe; the price is indicated as 448 drachmas and 1.5 obols.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Gift Property (land) Uncertain B ll. 12-14 Eumenes to give over the village of Sibloe as a gift.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Village Regulation Sacrifices Religious B ll. 15-17 The income from Sibloe to go towards sacrifices to Eumenes.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Regulation Tax-immunity Imperial B ll. 15-17 Sibloe to be declared sacred and exempt from tax.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Spending Property (land) Sale B ll. 18-19 The price for Sibloe to be paid by the king to Meleagros.
http://nomisma.org/id/daldis Hellenistic monarch Gift Property (land) Uncertain B ll. 19-22 Further donation of villages to the Apollonioucharakians towards the restitution of their settlement.