Apollonis of Cyzicus, the wife of king Attalus I of Pergamum and mother of his successors Eumenes II and Attalus II. She won public sympathy by fulfilling many benefactions. After her death in 159 BC (or a little earlier) she was divinized by the Teians who embedded her cult to that of Aphrodite. A new altar was built for the divinized queen on the spot where she once came ashore on her visit in Teos. This document gives some details of how her cult was to be practised every year.
– – – displaying and those in the Dionysion . . . on the day; the [(?) sacred and the public] magistrates shall assemble, both those in the city and those in the countryside; and there shall be a truce [between everyone on] this day; the priest of [Aphrodite] and the goddess Apollonis Eusebes, and the priestess of Apollonis and queen Stratonike shall take care of the sacrifices, along with the president and the hieropoioi and the other magistrates; and after the prayers and the libations and the sacrifices have been completed, the free-born boys shall sing an altar hymn; and the maidens chosen by the supervisor of education shall perform a dance and sing a hymn. In future, the timouchoi and generals in office each year shall see to it that the altar hymn is sung by the boys, and the hymn is sung by the maidens, and the dance is performed . . .; and in addition to the other honours voted to the goddess Apollonis, [an altar] of the goddess Apollonis Eusebes Apobateria shall be [established in the] most prominent place in [the agora(?) ], and a sacrifice shall be performed on it . . .