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T.219. Fragment of imperial edict of Anastasios I.

Description: Block of sandstone (w: 1.10 x h: 0.36 x d: 0.44) from a wall carrying a copy of the decree of Anastasius, de rebus Libyae Pentapolis denuo constituendis. The surface has deteriorated considerably since its discovery.
Text: Inscribed on one face which was already faulty, requiring the masons to avoid substantial gaps; the initial in line 2 perhaps indicates that this is the third block in the inscribed group.
Letters: Irregular lettering; gamma in line 2 0.04, all others 0.02; Ϲ for digamma, bar above the figures in line 6; lunate epsilon and sigma; cursive omega; the cutter has had to avoid holes in the stone.

Date: CE 491-518

Findspot: Taucheira: South area of the city, in a garden near the former Fortino Perrone; recorded in 1936
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tocra Museum

Interpretive

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δίχ̣α̣ [π<ροϲ>]τάγμα̣[τοϲ] τὴν [πάρ]ο̣δ̣[ον] ( vac. 1) [ἐ]πὶ τ̣οὺϲ βαρ[βάρουϲ ποιεῖν· τοὺϲ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ἔθνουϲ τῶν Μακῶν διὰ γραμμάτων τοῦ λ̣α̣(μπροτάτου) πραιφέκτου ϲυγχωρῖϲθαι ἐπὶ τὰ χωρία Πενταπόλεωϲ παραγίνεϲθαι. (12) Ὥϲτε π̣αρὰ τοῖϲ γενναιοτάτοιϲ]
Γ ϲτρατιώταιϲ δί( vac. 3)χα τινὸς ( vac. 5) παρὰ τὸ δίκ[αιον ἐπιϲαγομένηϲ ἐπηρίαϲ παρέχεϲθαι. (13) Ὥϲτε τὸν παραβαίνοντά τι τῶν τυπωθέντων πεντήκοντα ]
χ( vac. 2)ρυϲίου λίτραϲ ( vac. 3) λόγῳ προϲτ( vac. 1)ίμου με( vac. 1)θο[δεύεϲθαι καὶ ταύταϲ περὶ τὴν τῶν ὅρων ἐπιμέλιαν δαπανᾶϲθαι. (14) Γνῶϲιϲ τῶν μετὰ τὰ ἐπέτεια εἰϲ]
μιώϲειϲ τῶ( vac. 1)ν ϲυνηθειῶν τυπωθέντων καθ’ἕ( vac. 2)κα[ϲτον ἔτοϲ παρέχονται παρὰ τῶν γενναιωτάτων ϲτρατιωτῶν ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἀριθμῶν καὶ οὐκ ἀφ’ἑκάϲτου τούτων ]
5 διαφόροιϲ κατὰ τὴν χώραν προϲώποιϲ ὧν οὐδὲ π̣[λέον αὐτοὺϲ ἐπινοεῖϲθαι χρή, οὕτωϲ· ϲυγκαθέδρῳ τοῦ περιβλέπτου δουκὸϲ νο(μίϲματα) νδ´· δομεϲτικῷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ νο(μίϲματα) ρκϛ´ ]
κανκελλαρίου τοῦ αὐτοῦ νο(μίϲματα) κδ´· δεκανῷ καὶ ϲουπ<ϲκ>ρ[ιβενδαρίῳ καὶ ϲπαθαρίῳ καὶ βουκινάτορι καὶ ἀνθρώποιϲ τοῦ δουκόϲ, τοῖϲ πᾶϲιν τούτοιϲ νο(μίϲματα) ρπ´· ]
τῇ τάξει λόγῳ καλανδαρικῶν νο(μίϲματα) ρξα´· νου( vac. 1)μεραρίῳ κα[ὶ πριμιϲκρινίῳ ὑπὲρ ἀννώναϲ προϲτιθεμένηϲ καὶ παραπομπῆϲ νό(μιϲμα) α´· τοῖϲ αὐτοῖϲ ὑπὲρ καπίτου ὁμοίωϲ προϲτιθεμένου νό(μιϲμα) α´· τοῖϲ αὐτοῖϲ ὑπὲρ ]
προκοπῆϲ βαθμοῦ νό(μιϲμα) α´· τοῖϲ αὐ̣τ̣ο̣ῖϲ ὑπὲρ ϲτρατευϲίμ[ου καὶ τῆϲ καλουμένηϲ προβατωρίαϲ νό(μιϲμα) α´· τοῖϲ αὐτοῖϲ λόγῳ χαρτατικῶν Ν̣ΟΑ ἀπὸ ἑκάϲτου κάϲτρου τῶν καϲτρη-]
ϲιανῶν νο(μίϲματα) ϛ´· τ[οῖϲ α]ὐτοῖϲ λόγῳ τετραμηνιακῶν̣ [ὁμοίωϲ νο(μίϲματα) δ´.]
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Diplomatic

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ΔΙ..[....]ΤΑΓΜ.[...]ΤΗΝ[...]..[..]  [.]ΠΙ.ΟΥϹΒΑΡ[.........................................................................................................................................]
ΓϹΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΑΙϹΔΙ      ΧΑΤΙΝΟΣ          ΠΑΡΑΤΟΔΙΚ[................................................................................]
Χ    ΡΥϹΙΟΥΛΙΤΡΑϹ      ΛΟΓΩΠΡΟϹΤ  ΙΜΟΥΜΕ  ΘΟ[..............................................................................]
ΜΙΩϹΕΙϹΤΩ  ΝϹΥΝΗΘΕΙΩΝΤΥΠΩΘΕΝΤΩΝΚΑΘΕ    ΚΑ[.......................................................................................]
5ΔΙΑΦΟΡΟΙϹΚΑΤΑΤΗΝΧΩΡΑΝΠΡΟϹΩΠΟΙϹΩΝΟΥΔΕ.[........................................................................................]
ΚΑΝΚΕΛΛΑΡΙΟΥΤΟΥΑΥΤΟΥΝΟΚΔΔΕΚΑΝΩΚΑΙϹΟΥΠΡ[.............................................................................]
ΤΗΤΑΞΕΙΛΟΓΩΚΑΛΑΝΔΑΡΙΚΩΝΝΟΡΞΑΝΟΥ  ΜΕΡΑΡΙΩΚΑ[................................................................................................................]
ΠΡΟΚΟΠΗϹΒΑΘΜΟΥΝΟΑΤΟΙϹΑ...ΙϹΥΠΕΡϹΤΡΑΤΕΥϹΙΜ[......................................................................................-]
ϹΙΑΝΩΝΝΟϚΤ[....]ΥΤΟΙϹΛΟΓΩΤΕΤΡΑΜΗΝΙΑΚΩ.[..........]
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Apparatus

1-9: The supplements are provided from the fullest version of the text, at Ptolemais, P.116, lines 49-83. They may not necessarily continue the surviving text; if the letter at the beginning of line 2 is a number (3) for the block, this might in fact represent the end of the lines. The vacats represents substantial holes in the stone
4: Ptolemais: μίωϲιν τῶν ϲυνηθιῶν ; ἕκασ[τ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
6: Ptolemais: κανκελλαρίῳ
5: Ptolemais: ὧν οὐδὲν
6: κδ , it is possible that Ρ has been added above the line, giving 124.
8: στρατευσίμου Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
9: το[ῖς] αυτοῖς Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Translation to follow)

Commentary

For another, very fragmentary, copy at Apollonia, see A.30, and, for the fullest text, at Ptolemais, P.116. A full edition with translation and commentary is under preparation by Denis Feissel; we are most grateful to him for access to his preliminary account.

It is clear that there was a considerable military force at Teucheira in the time of Anastasius and possible that the Late Fort was originally constructed for it.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 139, p.135, pl. LII, fig. I BC, whence SEG 9.414, PHI 324263.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities F.1180)


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