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Appendix on the copy of the Edict found at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2017

Joyce Reynolds
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In JRS XLV (1955), 106 f. (cited below simply as JRS), Giacomo Caputo and Richard Goodchild published fragments of a copy of the Edict discovered at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica. Subsequently a number of additional fragments have come to light, two in the course of excavation on the site by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (published by C. H. Kraeling, Ptolemais (Chicago, 1962), p. 215, no. 47 and pi. LV b, c, cited below simply as Kraeling), the remainder by the Department of Antiquities of the Government of Libya. In the course of completing work left unfinished by Goodchild's untimely death, I studied the whole collection during visits to Ptolemais during the summers of 1968 and 1969 and have some new readings and interpretations of the older fragments to propose as well as the new fragments to present. Since the Ptolemais copy has been cited at a number of points in the account of the Aphrodisias copy I take this opportunity to summarize the present state of knowledge on it.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , November 1970 , pp. 120 - 141
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Copyright ©Joyce Reynolds 1970. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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1 I am deeply indebted for permits and help to the Libyan Department of Antiquities, especially to Mr. Awad Sadawiya, then Controller of Antiquities in Cyrenaica, and Mr. Abdussalem Bazama, the officer of the department permanently resident at Tolmeita, but also to the staff of the Museum who, on this and other occasions, opened it at odd hours for me, moved stones and sustained me with tea and other kindnesses.

2 See Callu (o.c. (above, n. 13), 406–7) who argues that the prices were valid up to 311/2: a reference I owe to Mr. Crawford; also Macmullen, I.c. (above, p. 137) for an earlier statement of the view that the Edict was more effective than is sometimes thought.