Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (5.1886-1890)

312 PLATAIAN FRAGMENT OF THE EDICT OF DIOCLETIAN,

to 1200, that of the commonest sort to 72 denarii. The place whence
the flax comes was not taken as a basis for its value; the places men-
tioned in the following chapter refer, as is well known, to the weaving.

Col. II, 14-38 is also new, the first lines recurring, as the preced-
ing, in the Atalante fragment. This second subdivision of the linen
ware treats of the simple shirts, crrlyai acrr)/j.ot. It has the same three
standards of three degrees each, as all these chapters, but the second
class here is represented by the soldier shirts, arisen arpaTicoTiicai.

Col. II, 39-68 respond to ch. 17,1-17 taken from the Geronthraian
copy; the beginning 39-47, wanting in this, is now supplied by the
Plataian copy; the end defective in Plataia is supplied by the Geron-
thraian copy 17,18-37. This passage regulates the prices of another
sort of shirt, the dalmatica, distinguishing between woman's shirts
which precede, and the cheaper men's shirts. It offers nothing of
considerable interest; the first part also, though new, could have been
almost made out by mere analogy. Only it may be observed, that at
the beginning the dalmatica treated here is described as ao-^o?, as it
should be.

Col. Ill, 1-12 treats in the same way of the linen avafio\ev<;, the
cloak. The beginning is missing, but as we have the whole passage
from Geronthrai, ch. 17, 38-58, this is of no material importance.

Col. Ill, 13-41 follows the faciale. This passage too is only a
second copy of 17, 59-72.

Col. Ill, 42-68 treats of the caracallus and corresponds to 17, 80-
98. The Plataian copy has at the end a few more words than the
Geronthrian, but they give nothing not otherwise known.

The last part of the third column and the slab joined to it, contained
what wc read on the first column of the Elateia copy, which treats of
the coxalia, the oraria and certain yvvauceoa, and after these, what in
my edition is given, from another slab (of Geronthrai) as chapter 18,
treating of the KepaXohea/xia, the aivhoves, the rv\ai, all belonging to
linen ware.

Theodor Mommsen.

Berlin.