A decree of Ilion honoring Antiochos I. Sigeum, about 280–278. Marble stele, early third-century lettering.

Nymphis, son of Diotrephes, being epimenios, and the epistates being Dionysios, son of | Hippomedon, Demetrios, son of Dies, introduced the motion. Since King Antiochos (I), son of King | Seleukos (I), at the beginning (of his reign), after having taken over the kingdom and manifested an hon|orable and good policy, sought to bring the cities in Se∥leukis, which were hard pressed by harsh circumstances because of those who had rebelled against | his regime, back to peace and their old prosperity, | and, having advanced against those attacking his regime, as was just, (he sought) to re|gain his ancestral realm; wherefore, acting with a good and just purpose | and taking not only his friends and his army, who were zealous for the struggle for ∥ his regime, but also the divinity as a benevolent hel|per, he restored the cities to peace and his kingdom to its old condition;