5 ) ΗΝ;

6 ) ΗΝ;

7 ) ΝΕ;

9 ) ΗΣ, ΤΗΣ;

9 ) κλη‹ι›πείω‹ι› Bitrakova–Grozdanova.

It was re-used in the foundations of the Polyconchal Church in 1960ies. Aurelius Krates, son of Ptolemaios, bears a mixed onomastic formula. His nomen Aurelius indicates that he acquired Roman citizenship through the Constitutio Antoniniana, which would date this inscription to after 212 AD. In addition to the Roman onomastic formula, he retained his father’s name (as part of the Macedonian onomastic formula).For his merits, he received an honor from the Athenians, as stated in the inscription. However, in his hometown of Lychnidos, besides this inscription, another statue base with an almost identical text was discovered in the Ancient theatre in 2000, erected by the Lychnidians (Bitrakova Grozdanova V., Lychnidos et Dassaretie, Skopje, 2017, pp. 421–447).These inscriptions, along with the coin issues of the Dassaretii and the Lychnidians, indicate that the Dassaretii were organized as a single administrative community, with Lychnidos as its center ‒ an autonomous city-state (πόλις). This type of organization of smaller settlements or villages in one community (κοινόν, ἔθνος) around some central urban center, is attested in several Upper Macedonian regions in Roman times – among the Lynkestai, Orestai, and Elimiotai. These were territories described in historical sources as “free” and their existence is confirmed by inscriptions. A similar situation can be observed in the relationship between Derriopos and the city of Stuberra.