Ephesos (Ionia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), ca. 150-200 CE
IEph 215
= W.H. Buckler, "Labour Disputes in the Province of Asia," Anatolian Studies Presented to Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (ed. Buckler and W.M. Calder; Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1923) 27-50
= SEG 4: 512
= PHI 247938
= AGRW ID# 6299
Copenhagen Inventory info: 1595
(Edict of the Proconsul)
(missing lines) … and according to an agreement … as a result it happens that the People (dēmos) sometimes bursts into disorder and confusion due to the recklessness of bakers in the market. They should have been promptly arrested and tried for these riots, but since the city’s welfare should be given priority over their punishment, I have decided to bring them to their senses with an edict (diatagma). I therefore order the bakers not to gather together as a faction (hetairia) and the leaders not to act boldly. Rather they are to obey completely the regulations established for the common welfare and to supply the city with the necessary production of bread without fail. From now on, if any of them (10) is caught attending a meeting contrary to this edict or caught initiating any confusion or faction, he shall be arrested and suffer the appropriate punishment. Now if anyone dares to plot against the city in secret, he will also be branded on the foot with the word “decuria,” and anyone who shelters such a man will be liable to the same punishment.
(Meeting of the Ephesian Civic Council)
In the year of the civic presidency (prytanis) of Claudius Modestus, on the fourth day of the month Klareon, at a special meeting of the Council, Marcellinus said: “A perfect example of the madness of the leaders of the workshops (ergastēriarchai) was given yesterday by Hermeias, who is associated with … (remaining lines lost)
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Item modified: November 6, 2020
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