This inscription was published by Ch. Marek & E. Zingg, "Die Versinschrift des Hyssaldomos und die Inschriften von Uzunyuva" (2018). The English translation is taken from R. Van Bremen, "Mylasa in 261 BC", p.16 ( PDF ).
The Otorkondeis, who issued this decree, had their own cult of 'Zeus of the Otorkondeis', but were also associated with the worship of Zeus Osogo, one of the main gods of Mylasa; see C.G. Williamson, "Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor", pp.102-103 ( PDF ).
In the year of the stephanephoros Hierokles son of Menippos, on the fifth day of the decade of the beginning of the month Dystros, in a regular session of the assembly; to good fortune, decision of the tribe {phyle} of the Otōrkondeis: the oikonomoi Hermias son of Hekataios and Iasōn son of Pamphilos are to lease out on a hereditary basis the agricultural land in Toggroma, common land, for at least thirty-five chrysoi {gold staters} on the condition that the tenants provide trustworthy guarantors to the treasurers for a period of ten years; it will be permitted to whomever succeeds them as treasurers to require additional guarantors; the tenants are to carry out everything else according to the contract which they have agreed with the treasurers; they are to pay the rent to the treasurers each year, without demur, subject to no claim, free from all taxes, in the mid point of the month of Xandicus; the decree is to be inscribed so that the lease be concluded, and the contract on which they have agreed, on a stone stele and set this up in the sanctuary of Zeus of the Otōrkondeis; the money for this shall be given by the treasurers in office.
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