Page:On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos, in Rhodes, respectively (1878).djvu/11

This is a decree of the Mastroi and lalysians, ordering the consecration, according to the ancient prescription, κατὰ τὰ πάτρια of the Hieron and temenos of the Goddess Alektrona. The Hierotamiæ are ordered to engrave the decree on three marble stelæ, and to place one of them in the entrance from the city (to the temenos), another above the Hestiatorion, and a third on the road leading downwards from the city Achaia.

Then follows the law itself, which declares what animals and objects it is not permitted to introduce into the Hieron and temenos of Alektrona. The animals are the horse, the ass, the mule, the γῖνος, which, according to Aristotle, was the foal of a mare