A procession from the threshing floor, and a sacrifice for Apollon.
The month of Heraios. Day is unspecified in original source. 7th chosen due to association with Apollon.
Moreover, the Delphic foundation of Alkesippos, a somewhat earlier document dated to 182 BC (LSCG 81 / Choix Delphes 137) apparently served as a partial model for the foundations of the Attaleia and the Eumeneia.
As part of his will, this private individual from Kalydon donated a sum of gold and silver so that the Delphians could organize, using the interest on the capital, a sacrifice and a civic feast (δαμοθοινία); it was also stipulated that they should call the festival (ποτονομάζειν) the Alkesippeia, after the benefactor himself.
The festival was also to include a procession departing from the so-called "Circular Area" (lit. circular "threshing-floor") in the sanctuary, led by the priest of Apollo and prominent magistrates (the Alkesippeia took place in the month Heraios rather than Herakleios).
– CGRN 204: Decree of Delphi concerning the organisation of the Eumeneia with the donation of Eumenes II $^{134}$
When Damosthenes was archon, in the month of Poitropios, Alkesippos of Kalydon the son of Boutheras dedicated one hundred and thirty gold pieces and twenty-two minas and thirty staters of silver to the god and to the city of Delphi, on these terms: if Alkesippos suffers anything {dies}, the city of Delphi shall perform a sacrifice and public feast to Pythian Apollo every year, which they shall call Alkesippeia, from the interest produced by the gold and silver.
The sacrifice shall be performed in the month of Heraios; and the priests of Apollo and the archon and the prytaneis and all the other citizens shall go in procession from the “threshing-floor” { halos }. The magistrates shall inscribe this in the temple, and the offering shall be valid; and all his other personal possessions shall be dedicated, if he suffers anything, to the god and the city; and Theotima his personal maidservant shall be made free if he suffers anything; and Damippos, Theotima, Ageas and Pisilaos shall perform his burial, using the bronze money that he deposited with them, and they shall render an account of this to the city.
Witnesses: Kritolaos, Latropos, Ageas, Polemokrates, Agasidamos, Gennaios, Xenokrates of Medeon, Stratagos, Kallikles, Andronikos, Pisilaos, Dexikrates, Charixenos, Polemarchos son of Pausanias. The testament shall be kept by: Athambos, Ageas and Peisilaos.
– Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum 631*:** Alkesippus of Kalydon’s pompe (sacrifice and public feast at Delphi) $^{136}$*
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