International audienceThe excavations carried out on the island of Thasos have brought to light almost one thousand five hundred inscriptions from all periods and of very different kinds. They throw light on the political institutions, the defence, cults, society and economy of the ancient city – one of the best known in the Aegean. Sixty-five years after the publication of J. Pouilloux’s Recherches sur l’histoire et les cultes de Thasos, the present volume (CITh III) inaugurates a new Corpus des inscriptions de Thasos, organized chronologically and thematically. It contains the public inscriptions dated to between c. 400 and 30 BC. At the dawn of the fourth century the city, emerging from a long period of civil wars, began to rebuild itsel...