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) |
| LINKS: |
| (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: |
| Other remarkable elements: |
| 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 |