Religious calendar concerning the imperial cult.
Remnants of a religious calendar, registering birthdays and memorial days of deified emperors and empresses.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12575
Religious calendar of festivals of the imperial cult TM 12575Probably Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt169-176(?) A.D.
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Fragment of a religious calendar of the imperial cult, listing festival days with the rites to be held: birthdays of deified emperors and empresses, anniversaries of reigns, and the emperor's return to Rome, each marked by a procession, spectacle or sacrifice. It probably comes from Tebtynis in the Fayum and dates to about AD 169-176.
In English machine translation
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[Column 2]
5: for the accession (?) […]
8: for the birthday of the goddess […]. [Spectacle.]
15: birthday of Hestia; in the […] a sacrifice is performed, Ulpi[…] […]
17: for the god Hadrian having completed the second [decade] of his reign. Procession.
19: for the birthday of the god Lucius Aurelius Verus. Spectacle.
Tybi 4: for the birthday of the god [Titus]. Spectacle. […]
[…]: for our lord Antoninus Caesar having returned to the royal city of Rome. [Procession (?).]
[18]: for the birthday of the god [Lucius Aelius Caesar (?). Spectacle.]
[…]: for the […]
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"Procession" (parodos) and "spectacle" (theoria) denote the type of celebration prescribed for each day. Several imperial names, including Titus and Lucius Aelius Caesar, are editorial restorations.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Religious Calendar concerning the Imperial Cult). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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