Peripoloi and the god Medaurus in a newly-discovered Greek inscription from Rhizon

The paper offers the publication of a Greek inscription recently discovered in Risan (ancient Rhizon/Risinum), Monetenegro. Dated palaeographically to the beginning of the second sentury BC, the inscription mentions the local god Medaurus as peripolarchos and a certain Aristokles son of Aristion as prytanis, and lists twelve men as peripoloi. It thereby confirms that Rhizon was a city in Greek style by mid-Hellenistic period. The overwhelmingly Greek onomastics of the men mentioned in the text shows that the demos of Rhizon was greatly subjected to Greek cultural patterns at the time.The paper offers the publication of a Greek inscription recently discovered in Risan (ancient Rhizon/Risinum), Monetenegro. Dated palaeographically to the beginning of the second sentury BC, the inscription mentions the local god Medaurus as peripolarchos and a certain Aristokles son of Aristion as prytanis, and lists twelve men as peripoloi. It thereby confirms that Rhizon was a city in Greek style by mid-Hellenistic period. The overwhelmingly Greek onomastics of the men mentioned in the text shows that the demos of Rhizon was greatly subjected to Greek cultural patterns at the time