Throughout the history oft he classical and hellenistic Greek polis archives have played an important role in the administration of a city-state. From the 2nd cent. BC on a reorganization both of the structure of the archives as well as the publication of documents registered in archives can be shown. The first part of this paper concerns two fragmented inscriptions from Kos (IG XII 4, 1, 84 and 85) which contain information of a restructuring of the city-archive. Parts II and III concern the manumission inscriptions from Delphi and the grave-inscriptions from imperial Asia Minor. The focus is on the original text handed in at the archive and the question whether the inscriptions give any information on the structure and wording of these deeds.
