Ein frühhellenistisches Dekret aus Magnesia am Mäander über die Verbesserung der Getreideversorgung
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In this article we publish an early Hellenistic decree of the people of Magnesia meant to set in-centives for the import of grain. Willing importers are promised either various honours or - in the case of free foreigners - equal citizenship. A special commission is appointed to ensure that the requirements set out mostly in the lost part of the decree are actually met. Among other things, the required quantity of imported grain is likely to have been specified. A comparable procedure had previously only been inferred on the basis of two citizenship decrees from Samos and Ephesus. The new decree for the first time sheds light on the background of this modus ope-randi in which a polis proactively shaped its citizenship policy in favour of its food supply.
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