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Chapter 4 - Macedon and the Greeks of Europe

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Manumission of slaves with paramone restriction. Beroia, Macedonia, either about 280 or 235. Marble stele, late third-or second-century lettering suggesting reinscription of an older document.

M. Andronikos, Ancient Inscriptions of Beroia (Thessaloniki 1950) 1 with photograph; SEG 12 (1955) 314; Choix 30; *ISE 109.

W. L. Westermann, The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity (Philadelphia 1955) 35; R. M. Errington, Ancient Macedonia (Thessaloniki 1977) 2.115–22.

vv With good fortune, vv | In the reign of King Demetrios, seventh and twenti|eth year, month Peritios, in the priesthood of Apolloni|des, the son of Glaukios. v Payment for their freedom was made by Kosmas, ∥ Marsyas, Ortyx to Attinas, daughter of Alketas, for themselves v | and their wives, Arnion, Glauka, v Chlidane, | and for their children, both those now alive and any that may later | be born, and for all their possessions, ea|ch fifty gold (staters); v and Spazatis for her∥self and her possessions paid gold (staters), twenty-five of them. | And for them if they remain vvv | with Attinas while Attinas lives and do whatever At|tinas orders, and Attinas dies, they may depart | to wherever they wish. And it shall not be possible for Alketas nor Al∥ketas' wife nor the descendants of Alketas nor Lare|ta to seize them or their wives or | their children or {a} Spazatis or to reduce (them) to slav|ery or to take away anything of their possessions | on any pretext nor by another on their behalf.

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