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grbs-17010	Uzunoğlu, Hüseyin; Tavukçu, Zerrin Aydın	New Lists of Foreign Judges from Alabanda in Caria 	2024	20	.pdf	application/pdf	5828	273	68	The institution of foreign judges is a well-known phenomenon attested in the epigraphy of the Hellenistic period, serving to reduce potential civic complaints and disturbances arising from judicial impasses.2 There is a gap between the late Hellenistic period and the end of first century A.D. in terms of attested foreign judges, yet it is indisputable that the practice persisted throughout the High Empire, even though there was a certain decline in its use;3 and the inscriptions from the Imperial period no longer fall in the category of honorary decrees for judges in gratitude for their integrity in carrying out their duties, but appear in the much more condensed, frequently abbreviated form of lists of the members of each foreign delegation.4 It is doubtful that these show a general continuation of the institution into the High Empire;5 it appears to be confined to Mylasa, Stratonikeia, Thessaly(?), Sparta, the so-called Lycian metapempta dikasteria, and In the only relevant parallel for this kind of judge list, in the neighbouring city of Mylasa, we have only ethnic references, namely Λύκιοι8 (also found in our lists, see Block 1.c) and in a single case the judges of Erythrai who identify themselves as Ἀσιανοὶ Ἴωνες, meaning the Koinon of the Ionians according to the editors of I.Mylasa and I.Erythrai.9 On the other hand, Martin Hallmansecker has recently proposed that Ἀσιανοὶ Ἴωνες in this context is an ethno-cultural reference, primarily because there are no instances of a koinon dispatching a delegation of judges.10 16 δικ(αστὴς) Λ̣Ι̣ . .	cache/grbs-17010.pdf	txt/grbs-17010.txt