OGIS 232·282 · Three royal replies to Magnesia: the son Antiochus, Ptolemy IV and Attalus I recognize the Leucophryena马格涅西亚之三王复函:安条克之子、托勒密四世与阿塔罗斯一世承认琉科芙律涅节
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Three royal replies to Magnesia: the son Antiochus, Ptolemy IV and Attalus I recognize the Leucophryena

Around 208/205 BCE Magnesia on the Maeander mounted the most ambitious festival-diplomacy campaign of the Hellenistic world: prompted by an epiphany of Artemis and a Delphic oracle, the city sent sacred envoys to every king, league and city, asking that its games for Artemis Leucophryene be recognized as 'crowned' and of Pythian rank, and its territory as inviolable. The replies were inscribed together on the market-place portico — and three of the royal answers stand here, each a different style of kingship answering one identical request. The Seleucid crown prince Antiochus, co-regent of Antiochus III (he would die in 193, before ever reigning alone), answers with filial deference: the same three envoys who saw his father delivered a decree addressed to him too, and since 'my father has the kindliest regard (διάληψις) for your people and has approved', he approves likewise, promising to aid the city 'following my father's guidance'. Ptolemy IV Philopator answers with formal recognition — the games crowned and of Pythian rank, the inviolability acknowledged (his stone, left at Magnesia, is the most damaged). And Attalus I of Pergamon answers like the campaigner he was: he recognizes the games, orders a funded first-fruits contribution (ἀπαρχή), and announces that 'the cities obedient to me will do likewise — for I have written summoning them', extending the recognition to the Pergamenes themselves. With the letter of Antiochus III and the Cretan League's decree (edited separately in the Magnesia asylia dossier), the four-king panel of the great Leucophryena campaign is complete.约公元前208/205年,迈安德河畔马格涅西亚发起了希腊化世界最为宏大的节庆外交:因阿尔忒弥斯显灵与德尔斐神谕,该城遣圣使遍访诸王、同盟与城邦,请求承认其阿尔忒弥斯·琉科芙律涅赛会为「戴冠」且同皮提亚之级,其疆域为不可侵犯。诸复函同刻于市集柱廊 —— 此处呈其中三件王者复函,三种王风答复同一请求。塞琉古储君安条克(安条克三世之共治者,前193年先逝未及独立践祚)以孝顺作答:谒见其父之同三位使节亦向他呈递决议,既然「吾父对贵民怀最仁厚之眷顾(διάληψις)且已嘉允」,他亦照允,并许「循吾父之指引」襄助该城。托勒密四世以正式承认作答 —— 赛会戴冠、同皮提亚级,并认其不可侵犯(其石留于马格涅西亚,残损最甚)。佩加蒙之阿塔罗斯一世则以其征战者本色作答:承认赛会,下令拨付初献(ἀπαρχή),并宣告「服从于我之诸城将照行 —— 因我已致书召之」,更将承认推及佩加蒙人自身。与安条克三世之函及克里特同盟之决议(另编于马格涅西亚庇护权组卷)合观,琉科芙律涅大campaign之四王全景至此完备。