Page:On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos, in Rhodes, respectively (1878).djvu/5

Rh This decree orders that the 🇬🇷 of the Kamireans both in the Island and on the Continent are to be inscribed on a marble stelè, and set up in the Hieron of Athena. The 🇬🇷 of Chalke are not included in this order, but the people of that island may, if they think fit, also have their 🇬🇷 entered in the register. Three commissioners are to be at once elected, who are to superintend the carrying out the decree, and are to contract for providing a stelè, for which the lowest tender is to be accepted. The contractor is to inscribe the 🇬🇷 on the stelè, to erect it in the Hieron of Athena, and to fix it firmly all round with lead. The Treasurer is to defray the cost of all these operations. The 🇬🇷 or members of the 🇬🇷 are to select out of these 🇬🇷 a 🇬🇷 who is to be appointed in the most holy Hieron in the 🇬🇷, according to the law of the Rhodians. These, the 🇬🇷?, are to be assembled in Kamiros, in the Hieron of Athena, and on the arrival of the 🇬🇷 are to inspect the Hiera of the Kamireans.

The first question which presents itself in this decree is, who and what are the 🇬🇷 and 🇬🇷. The word 🇬🇷 is not found in ordinary Greek Lexicons. I had, however, inferred from the context that in this inscription it was used in the sense of a district or local division of land. Again, the mention of the 🇬🇷 l. 14, and the 🇬🇷 l. 17, seemed to point to some religious rites in connection with the 🇬🇷. I had already come to this conclusion, when I stumbled on the word in Hesychios, placed out of its true alphabetical order as follows:—🇬🇷 Schmidt in his recent edition of A 2