Decree of the assembly of the artisans of Dionysus in Ionia, the Hellespont and those connected with Dionysus Kathegemon. Since the people of Iasos remain friends, affectionate and benefactors, preserving their existing goodwill and friendship towards the artisans [...], ensuring the honor due to the assembly of the artisans of Dionysus from the Greeks, according to the oracles, and from the Romans, the common benefactors and saviors of mankind, showing all zeal and generosity in previous times with regard to the contests [..........] zeal and assidiousness, in the present time [...] spectacle [....]
Good Fortune. It seems to the assembly of the artisans of Dionysus; so that [.....] salvation [...to owe] to Dionysus and to the people of Iasos in the festival that they celebrate to Dionysus, because of the existing friendship from ancient times of the registered artisans and of those who work with our synod, (we send) two flute players, two tragic actors, two comic actors, a citharode and a cytharist so that they will perform the choruses to the god in accordance with their ancestral provisions, providing (in addition) the equipment they require [...]. They will offer all the regular contests of the artisans of Dionysus for the specified time, providing everything in accord with the customs of the people of Iasos. If one of those who is sent by the artisans does not go to Iasos or does not perform in the contests, He will pay one thousand Antiochene drachmas as a sacred fine for the god to the assembly of the artisans of Dionysus, unless he was unable to perform because of illness or the weather. There will be an appeal of the fine for a person showing proofs for introducing and destroying the decree in accordance with the law.
So that the people of Iasos will know of the zeal of our assembly and of the assidousness towards our friends in difficult times, (the assembly) selects ambassadors, who, going to Iasos and giving the decree to their prostates and coming before the council and the assembly, making plain the honors that we have voted to them and preserving the generosity that has existed between us of old, will call upon the Iasians to preserve their good disposition to the assembly of the artisans of Dionysus, augmenting the friendship consequent upon the existing goodwill of old. The ambassadors they elected were Ploutiades the citharode, Lysimachus the tragic poet, Nicostratus the tragic competitor. Those who were assigned together with heir equipment were: Timokles and Phaitias, fluteplayers; Posidonios and Sosipatros the tragic performers; Agatharchos and Moiras the comic performers; Zenotheos the citharode; Apollonios the Samian, citharist. Carried in the third stephanophorate of Apollo after Menas son of Tyrtaios on the sixth of Apatouria.