Les constitutions des Tétrarques connues par l’épigraphie

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ID9378633
AuthorsDenis Feissel (corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume3
Pages33-53
Publication date1995-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquité Tardive (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1250-7334 • E-ISSN: 2295-9718
PublisherBrepols (PUBLISHER • BE)
DOI10.1484/j.at.2.301086
OpenAlexW2421669179
LanguageFR
Citations received25

The introduction discusses particular features of Tetrarchic epigraphy, notably the wide circulation of some constitutions and the limited number of Greek translations compared to copies of the original Latin text (§ I). Fourteen constitutions, found primarily in Greece and Asia Minor, are attributed with varying degrees of certainty to the years 298 to 314 (§ II). The text to two rescripts of Diocletian directed to the people of Syene-Elephantine, though badly reproduced in the copy made by R. Pococke, can be partly reinterpreted. It is shown that no request had been submitted by Syene to the rationalis before addressing the emperor (§ III). A short review of the newly published fragments (1976-1993) of the Edictum de pretiis emphasizes the importance of some of them for reconstructing the entire document (§ IV). Two little known constitutions found on Corfu (CIL III 578) are reconsidered and partly supplemented (§ V). Part of the preamble of a constitution of Galerius, found in Sinope, is also reconstructed (§ VI). Maximinus's rescript of 312 against the Christians is defined in more precise diplomatic terms, according to a copy from Colbasa with a complete set of subscriptions, originally written by various hands (§ VII). The text of the edict De accusationibus, reconstructed from five epigraphic copies, is shown to be closely related (although not identical) to a Constantinian letter excerpted in CTh IX, 5,1 (§ VIII). Finally a fragment from Ephesos is linked to the preamble of a constitution directed against the Caesariani, already known as CIL V 2781, 31-34 (§ IX). [Author. Translation partly revised by D. Parrish]

Ancient history · Art · Constitution · Emperor · Epigraphy · Humanities · Physics · Political science · Ruler · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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