Pages: 300-318

It is a study of the well-known epigraphic document of III c. BC, the so-called Testamentum Epictetae found on the island of Thera (Santorini). The text served in numerous researches as a source for dialectal peculiarities of the Ancient Greek and history studies of the Hellenistic law. The present research is a different approach to the document, which provides evidence for such a phenomenon in the ancient culture as museum and the cult of muses associated with it.