On the History of Chios of the Second Part of the 4th Century B. C.
Th e paper aims to specify the dating of a recently found fragment of the Chian inscription which deals with the property of returned exiles and which, according to its letterforms, is dated to the second part of the 4th century B. C. Analyzing various possibilities of the documents relating to the events of the period, the author comes to the conclusion that, in the light of the data we have today, either 332 or 331 is a more probable date of the decree. If so, the inscription is directly connected with those Chian exiles whose return is claimed in the «First Letter» of Alexander the Great to Chios and testifi ed in his «Second Letter» to the polis.