references to a cult statue ( agalma , l. 8) and a stele (l. 9), perhaps the one carrying the enktesis grant. There is also a vague allusion to Thracian women (l. 15), but the state of the inscription [...] Athens are the mercenaries accompanying Peisistratos on his return from Thrace to Athens in the 560s (Hdt I.64; Aristl. Ath. Pol. 15.2). From the 560s onwards Thracians formed a clearly identifiable and [...] advice from an oracle (ll.30-31). The question to be asked, as I read it, was: either 1) ‘whether it is necessary that a woman who is to be priestess and a man who is to be priest be chosen from the Thracians