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Rescript of Valerian and Gallienus on allowances for sacred victors of Antinoopolis TM 15346Oxyrhynchos

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A copy of an imperial rescript of the emperors Valerian and Gallienus answering a complaint by the sacred victors (victors in the sacred games) of Antinoopolis, submitted through Septimius Kallikles. Their allowances had been withheld while Alexandrian victors were paid; the emperors refer them to the prefect of Egypt, Magnius Felix, who is to restore the arrears and future payments if the withholding was unjustified.

In English machine translation

[recto] Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Valerianus Pius Felix Augustus and Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Valerianus Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus, to the sacred victors in Antinoopolis, through Septimius Kallikles. […] Since you state that during one period of two of the so-called 'suspensions' among the Alexandrians, the one which lasted 15 months and 7 days, the Alexandrian sacred victors received the allowances for the games from the treasury, but that the payment to you Antinoites was withheld, approach our friend and prefect of Egypt, Magnius Felix, presenting this, and he, if he finds that what was due to you was withheld for no reason, will order that the allowances for the said period be paid and that in future you be given whatever you have received throughout all previous time. […] [verso] Copy of a rescript of Caesar.

The 'suspensions' (aphaireseis) appear to be periods when payments to Alexandrian victors were suspended; the exact meaning of the term is uncertain. The date is inferred from the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus and the prefecture of Magnius Felix.,

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rescript of Valerian and Gallienus). 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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[r] Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Πούπλιος Λικίννιος Οὐαλεριανὸς Εὐσεβὴς Εὐτυχὴς Σεβαστὸς καὶ Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Πούπλιος Λικίννιος Οὐαλεριανὸς Γαλλιηνὸς Εὐσεβὴς Εὐτυχὴς Σεβαστὸς ἱερονίκαις τοῖς ἐν Ἀντινόου πόλει διὰ Σεπτιμίου Καλλικλέους. […] ἐπεὶ κατὰ τὸν ἕνα μὲν χρόνον δυοῖν ἀφαιρέσεων τῶν…