Rivista di Diritto Romano (Jul 2023)

A proposito della pubblicazione dell’Edictum de pretiis di Diocleziano: un testimone dall’Egitto in PSI. XVII 1685 recto?

  • Maria Vittoria Bramante

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7358/rdr-2023-bram
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 0
pp. 9 – 27

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Abstract The contribution focuses on the publication of Diocletian’s edict on prices in Egypt. A scrap of papyrus, from Oxyrhynchus, PSI. XVII 1685 recto, preserves the initial part of a text that the editor Marco Stroppa has recognized as the draft of a publication edict of a strategos, datable between 293 and 305. The PSI. XVII 1685 recto’s review suggests it is the draft of the publication edict of Diocletian’s tariff: it would be an important testimony, which adds to the law’s publication in Phrygia, by Tiberius Fulvius Asticus. Precisely this edict of the praeses provinciae allows to integrate the surviving lines of PSI. XVII 1685 recto, and to reconstruct the entire text.

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