Ephesos (Ionia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), 42 or ca. 32 BCE
IEph 4101
= Hoz 2015, 99
= D. Knibbe, "Qvandocvmqve qvis trivm virorvm rei pvblicae constitvendae...: Ein Neuer Text aus Ephesos." ZPE 44 (1981) 1-10 = K. Bringmann, "Edikt der Triumvirn oder Senatsbeschluss? Zu einem Neufund aus Ephesos," EA 2 (1983) 47-76
= SEG 31 (1981), no. 952
= PHI 247930
= AGRW ID# 24440
. . . for anything exported or carried from these territories or imported or brought into these territories, all of these (people) are not subject to importation or exportation dues, nor dues labelled tolls (or: taxes). Now if anyone acts against this decision, it will be necessary to bring the consuls before the people or the plebeians. Let the current praetors and tribunes–whichever of them seems appropriate–bring the matter before the people or the plebeians. Whenever any of the three men in charge of public matters (triumviri) consider this or pass an edict, it was resolved that none (10) of these are to impose a tax on the instructors (paideutai), the sophists (sophistai), or the physicians (iatroi). These (three professions) have wanted to be considered exempt from tax in such a way that we would pass a decree concerning this matter. None of the two men in charge (duumviri), or the four men in charge (quattuorviri), or the leaders in charge of administering justice for a city, free town, people, colony, settlement, encampment, public place, or village (or: neighbourhood), nor any other person in an elected leadership position are to impose a tax, nor anyone from any of them with respect to (?) . . . , nor (20) hinder them so as to harass them in violation of this decree and the edict of the three men in charge of public matters (triumviri) . . . (remainder fragmentary).
Translation by: HarlandItem added: March 4, 2017
Item modified: March 17, 2017
ID number: 24440
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