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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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