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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
Through the kindness of the Rev. C. G. Curtis, of Constantinople, we are enabled to publish the following inscription. The stone on which it is cut is now in his possession, and was found at Chalcedon (the modern Kadikevi).
For the form and substance of the inscription cf. C. I. G. 3794, also from Chalcedon: our decree however appears from the forms of the letters to be older than the one in the Corpus, which uses the forms ΑΘΣ.
For the functions of the αἰσυμνῆται at Chalcedon, see Boeckh, ad loc. They seem to have corresponded to the Prytanes at Athens, and the ἁγεμὼν βουλᾶς was their president. It is singular that only one of the seven names of tribes found attached to the names of the αἰσυμνῆται in Boeckh's inscription recurs in this one; as at least six new ones are here found, it follows that there must have been more than either ten or twelve tribes at Chalcedon. In this inscription, again, there are ten αἰσυμνῆται beside the president; in C. I. G. 3797 he and the scribe have to be included to make up the same number.