Skepsis: -300 To -200 Decree concerning the construction of a theatre and the funding of its festivities

Century Category:
3rd century BCE
Region:
Troad
City:
Skepsis
Date:
3rd BCE
Certainty of pre-1st century CE date:
CERTAIN
Document Type:
Non-honorific decree
Epigraphic Reference:
Wilhelm (1900)
PHI ID:
287861
Trismegistos ID:
843990
Place of Publication:
http://nomisma.org/id/scepsis
Place of Conception:
http://nomisma.org/id/aegae_aeolis
Epigraphic Reference in Full:
Wilhelm (1900) 54-57
Reference Number:
54-57
Bibliographic URL:
https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000056058
Date From:
-300
Date To:
-200
Description:
Decree concerning the construction of a theatre and the funding of its festivities
PHI URL:
https://inscriptions.packhum.org/text/287861?bookid=718&location=1641

References to monetary behaviour (4)

Place of Transaction Authority Transaction Type Purpose/Focus Context/Field of Action Commodity Monetary Material Coin Denomination/Unit of Monetary Measurement Lines Notes
http://nomisma.org/id/scepsis City Regulation Artistic performance Religious Stater (στατήρ) ll. 8-12 The city was to hold a performance (thea) at the Dionysia annually, drawing 200 staters from the sacred fund.
http://nomisma.org/id/scepsis City Spending Construction Uncertain ll. 12-16, 18-22 The city was to build a theatre, including its proskenion, and carry out filling works; there is also mention of renewing the wall abutting the theatre and a tower extending up to the houses on the Skamandrios.
http://nomisma.org/id/scepsis City Regulation Public income and funds Uncertain Silver Argyrion (unspecified silver money) (ἀργύριον) ll. 16-18, 22-26 Regulation that the building-works were to be funded from the money leftover from the funds for the performances.
http://nomisma.org/id/scepsis City Regulation Penalty Uncertain ll. 26-30 Fragmentary beginning of a clause concerning misuse of the funds set out in the decree, so implying a penalty clause.