A letter of Q. Aemilius Saturninus, praefectus Aegypti

• Authors: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

Abstracts

EN

The article is the first edition of an edict in the form of a letter from the prefect Q. Aemilius Saturninus (in office circa 197/8–200 ce) to the strategi of the Heptanomia and Arsinoites, copied on the back of a sheet cut from a land register attesting the monartabos-tax, probably from the Oxyrhynchites. The fragmentary edict, apparently in part a cover for a further letter to a beneficiarius, mentions praiseworthy conduct by the latter in connection to a shortfall in the tax grain. A synthesis of the new text with other evidence for Saturninus as prefect is also presented.

Keywords

EN

dict; official letter; prefect; strategi; beneficiarius; land register; monartabos

• Publisher: Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga
• Journal: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 52
• Pages: 189-205

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

• Freie Universität Berlin

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

16729121