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Royal Correspondence: 69


LETTER OF ATTALOS III CONCERNING HIERAKOME IN CARIA

Original text:   Tralles_9   ( I.Tral. 18 )
Date:     138-133 B.C.
Format:   see key to translations

Welles suggested Attalos III as the writer of this fragmentary letter, based on the phrase 'my predecessors'; but this is far fron certain.


[King Atta]los to . . . [greetings.] . . . of the . . . in Hierakome . . . delivered a petition through which the inhabitants of [the] . . . of Hierakome asked . . . built for Apollo . . . for the service of the god . . . as they were from the beginning. [Wishing to confirm the grants] of my predecessors and to increase the [honours] of the gods, [I have given] the [tax-exemption as they requested] . . .

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