Χεπσονησιτῶν τῶν ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου) proves the continued intercourse between Delos and the remotest of her daughters[1]. It was at this period—between 300 and 200 B.C.—that Delos began to merit in the fullest degree that title which Pausanias gives to it, as "the common mart of the Greeks," τὸ κοινὸν Ἑλλήνων ἐμπόριον[2]. Its importance in this respect is indicated by the fact that the Tyrian traders of Delos formed a separate guild, which recorded decrees[3]. Both as a sanctuary and as a resort of merchants or sightseers, Delos offered peculiar advantages for the display of public documents. Thus a treaty between the Boeotians and Perseus of Macedon (172 B.C.) was exhibited on graven columns placed at Thebes, Delphi, and Delos[4]. When Perseus wished to give all possible publicity to an amnesty recalling exiles to Macedonia, Delos, Delphi, and the Itonian temple in Phthiotis were the three places at which he announced it[5]. A convention between towns of Lesbos, a convention between towns of Crete, decrees by the authorities of Tenos,
- ↑ Monuments grecs, No. 7, p. 45.
- ↑ Paus. viii. 32, 2.
- ↑ Corp. Inscr. Graec. 2273. The funeral inscriptions of Rheneia (ib. 2319b, 41), and a Delian dedication (ib. 2290) further attest the presence of the Tyrians in Delos.
- ↑ Liv. xlii. 12: Tribus nunc locis cum Perseo foedus incisum litteris esse; uno Thebis; altero ad Delum, augustissimo et celeberrimo templo; tertio Delphis.
- ↑ Polyb. xxvi. fr. 5, 1, 2: τούτων ἐξετίθει προγραφὰς εἴς τε Δῆλον καὶ Δελφοὺς καὶ τὸ τῆς Ἰτωνίας Ἀθῆνας ἱερόν: a place which makes against the proposed emendation Delium in Liv. l. c.
