Imperial rescript on immunities of athletes and stage performers TM 22353Hermopolites (?)324 - 337

[recto, column 1] […] we have the decisions […] the divine oath of the all-conquering emperor [Constantine, eternal Augustus, and of Constantine and Constan]tius the most illustrious Caesars, that it be forbidden […] our […] to hear and to order him […] nor at any rate to be troubled, the office taking care. […] so many are the privileges which to recite […] your protégé will make use of. Leontius […] may you live in eternal God Aten(i)us (?), may you live in eternal God [recto, column 2] The Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, Augusti, and Constantius and Maximian, most noble Caesars, to the guild of athletes and stage performers. And in the same place: It is our custom to preserve whole and unimpaired the prerogatives which the constitutions of our deified parents the Augusti grant to each in their own case. But lest under pretext of crowns the power of evading civic duties be given to all, therefore, by rescript given in response to your petitions, we declare that immunity from personal civic duties rightly belongs to those who, having taken part in contests throughout the whole time of their life, without recent corruption or the intervention of bribery (?), have won no fewer than three crowns in a notable contest, in which either victories in the City or in ancient Greece or by our consent […] comedy or contest established […] which form of privilege within the person of those whose […] it was not resolved to reward with a benefit of this kind […] so that they may be more justly persuaded […] a person of this kind […] [… 1 line lost …] [recto, column 3] unless this person, under the rival profession of his parents, has claimed for himself the form of privilege. [verso] [This] decision [will be observed] everywhere.