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Rescript of Severus Alexander to the league of Bithynia on appeals TM 61407unbekannt

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A copy of a rescript (imperial reply) of the emperor Severus Alexander to the provincial league of the Greeks in Bithynia, concerning the right of appeal and forbidding governors and others from using force against those who appeal; capital cases are to be referred to the emperor. The copy notes it was entered in the records of the prefect of Egypt on Mesore 18, and was found at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

Imperator Caesar, son of the deified Severus Pius, grandson of the deified Antoninus Pius Maximus, Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power, consul, father of his country, to the league of the Hellenes in Bithynia, greetings. That one may appeal [...] who prevents what by [...] I do not see, when from [...] entrusted (?) [...] to do, and sooner or later it comes to this, that force is used against those who appeal and [...] [...] and simply [...] the [...] to here [...] forbidden (?) [to the] governors of the provinces and [...] by proclamation, knowing that [...] [...] free (?) [...] Those, however, who [...] from a capital case, unless their [...] should be accepted [...] [...] to give security, not being able [...] [...] of the case must be sent to me. [...] It was entered in the records of [the] most illustrious [prefect of Egypt, in the fourth year (?)], Mesore 18.

The text is badly damaged in the middle, so the precise regulations on appeal are uncertain; the year in the final docket is restored. The 'koinon' is the provincial assembly of the Greek cities of Bithynia.

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 Severus Alexander). 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.17.2104

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

Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεοῦ Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς θεοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Μεγίστου υἱοῦ υἱὸς Μάρκος Αὐρήλιος Σεουῆρος Ἀλέξανδρος ἀρχιερεὺς δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας ὕπατος πατὴρ πατρίδος τῷ κοινῷ τῶν ἐν Βειθυνίᾳ Ἑλλήνων χαίρειν. ἐκκαλεῖσθαι μὲν π[…]ν τίς κωλύει τὸ ὑπὸ …[…] οὐχ ὁρῶ ὅτε ἐξ…[…]ν…ι…