72 dpi image of Welles, Royal Correspondence 49.
A larger, 150 dpi image of this inscription is also available.Category: | Royal Letter |
Subject: | Letter of Eumenes II to an unidentified Carian city (perhaps Bargylia rather than Iasos) requesting recognition of the games for Athena Nikephoros at Pergamon as crowned and of the inviolability (asylia) of her sanctuary. The lower part of the stele preserves the beginning of an answering decree of the city |
Date: | Spring, 182 BC. |
Bibliography: | K.J. Rigsby, Asylia. Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World (Berkeley, 1996) 369-70 no. 177. |
Location: | Paris, Louvre Museum. |
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