Official order directing a solemn procession in honour of the appointment of Maximus as Caesar (SB I 421)
TITLE: |
Official order directing a solemn procession in honour of the appointment of Maximus as Caesar (SB I 421) |
DATE: |
March, 236 AD |
ACTUAL LOCATION: |
Berlin, Staatliche Museen (place of discovery: Memphis, Egypt) |
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(1) (2) (3) (4) Photo and translation |
TEXT: |
PARTHEY, G. (1865): Frammenti di papiri greci asservati nella Reale Biblioteca di Berlino, Rome, text. 1 PREISIGKE, F: (1915): Sammelbuch Griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten Band I, Strassburg, p. 38 WILCKEN, U. AND A DEISSMANN(1923): Licht vom Osten. Das Neue Testament und die neuentdeckten Texte der hellenistisch-römischen Welt, Tübingen, p. 277. |
EDITIONS/TRANSLATIONS: |
KEYWORDS: |
Word used to mean procession: |
κωμάζεσθαι (l. 11) |
Word used to mean the cult images: |
Gods or other entities named: |
Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus (ll. 9-10) τὰς θεὰς (ll. 10-11) |
Description of the cult images: |
Procession’s route: |
Frequency with which the procession takes place: |
Performers: |
References to the public attending the procession: |
Rites related to the procession: |
Allusions to conduct or forms of reverence: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: |
BILABEL, F. (1926): “Ägyptische Thronbesteigungsurkunden”. In: Cimbria: Beiträge zur Geschichte, Altertumskunde, Kunst und Erziehungslehre, Dortmund, p. 64 DEN BOER, W. (1973): “Einige Bemerkungen zur Regierung von Maximinus Thrax”. In: W. den Boer; J. H. Waszink, Christianitas et Romanitas, Romanitas et Christianitas : studia Iano Henrico Waszink, Amsterdam, pp. 352–354 HARKER, A. (2008): Loyalty and dissidence in Roman Egypt: the case of the Acta Alexandrinorum, Cambridge, p. 207 LORIOT, X. (1973) : “La date du P. Reinach 91 et le dies Caesaris de Maxime”, ZPE 11, p. 153 PERPILLOU, F.-T. (1993): Fêtes d’Egypte ptolémaïque et romaine d’après la documentation papyrologique grecque, Louvanii, p. 218, n. 13 |