Commentary

Although only yhe last two lines of this decree survived, it is followed by LBW 80, so its broader context is clear. It is another decree renewing the Teian asylia, of which only the final sanction formula has been preserved with the dating to the local year (name of a damiourgos) and month (Artamitios) The consensus among scholars is that this decree was issued by Cnidus, where the two envoys would have stopped on their way to or from Crete (Rigsby 1996, 322; Trümpy 1997, 185 with reservations; I.Knidos 802). This attribution is based on the preconception that the damiourgos as an eponymous official is alien to Cretan institutional practice. Actually, this is not true: damiourgoi are attested in Aptera, Kydonia, Olous, and Polyrrhenia (Guarducci 1930; Sherk 1990, 268-9; Vagionakis 2017). On the other hand, the calendars of these cities are known in a very fragmentary way. The only city we can exclude is Aptera, whose asylia renewal decree from this dossier is LBW 75.