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Imperial rescripts on the privileges of the paeanistae TM 30329OxyrhynchosIII

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A copy of imperial rescripts concerning the privileges of the paeanistae, a religious association of hymn-singers. A reply of Septimius Severus and Caracalla to Sarapion son of Didymos confirms their rights and forbids innovations, and is followed by an earlier letter of Hadrian ordering, apparently, that the paeanistae be exempt from taxes. The copy was made at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus and Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augustus to Sarapion son of Didymos […] … they have (?) to keep […] … in the stoa of the gymnasium, year 8, Pharmouthi 1 (?) […] … of the Arsinoites (?), to the paeanistae […] … to be worshipped (?) and accordingly […] … and that nothing be innovated. For the […] granted, without hindrance […] […] posted on the seventh day before the Ides of December […] […] another (?) of the deified Hadrian […] Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus to the […] in the province, […] strategoi, Greeks and barbarians […] … greeting. I ordered that the paeanistae […] exempt (?) from every tax […] … on their own […] […] [… lines lost …]

Paeanistae were members of a cult association singing paeans, here apparently linked to the imperial cult. The Severan rescript was posted in the stoa of a gymnasium, probably Alexandria's, in year 8 (AD 199/200).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privileges of Paeanistae). 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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p.oxy.42.3018

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III · Oxyrhynchos

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