 In the reign of the young one who has succeeded his father in the kingship, lord of diadems, most glorious, who has established Egypt and is pious towards the gods, triumphant over his enemies, who has restored the civilized life of men, lord of the Thirty Years Festivals, even as Ptah the Great, a king like Ra, great king of the Upper and Lower countries, offspring of the Gods Philopatores, one whom Ptah has approved, to whom Ra has given victory, the living image of Amun, son of Ra, PTOLEMY, LIVING FOR EVER, BELOVED OF PTAH, in the ninth year, when Aetos son of Aetos was priest of Alexander, and the Gods Soteres, and the Gods Adelphoi, and the Gods Euergetai, and the Gods Philopatores and the God Epiphanes Eucharistos; Pyrrha daughter of Philinos being Athlophoros of Berenike Euergetis, Areia daughter of Diogenes being Kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos; Irene daughter of Ptolemy being Priestess of Arsinoe Philopator; the fourth of the month of Xandikos, according to the Egyptians the 18th Mekhir. DECREE. There being assembled the Chief Priests and Prophets and those who enter the inner shrine for the robing of the gods, and the Fan-bearers and the Sacred Scribes and all the other priests from the temples throughout the land who have come to meet the king at Memphis, for the feast of the assumption by PTOLEMY, THE EVER-LIVING, THE BELOVED OF PTAH, THE GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS, of the kingship in which he succeeded his father, they being assembled in the temple in Memphis on this day declared: Whereas King PTOLEMY, THE EVER-LIVING, THE BELOVED OF PTAH, THE GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS, the son of King Ptolemy and Queen Arsinoe, the Gods Philopatores, has been a benefactor both to the temple and to those who dwell in them, as well as all those who are his subjects, being a god sprung from a god and goddess like Horus the son of Isis and Osiris, who avenged his father Osiris, being benevolently disposed towards the gods, has dedicated to the temples revenues of money and corn and has undertaken much outlay to bring Egypt into prosperity, and to establish the temples, and has been generous with all his own means; and of the revenues and taxes levied in Egypt some he has wholly remitted and others has lightened, in order that the people and all the others might be in prosperity during his reign; and whereas he has remitted the debts to the crown being many in number which they in Egypt and the rest of the kingdom owed; and whereas those who were in prison and those who were under accusation for a long time, he has freed of the charges against them; and whereas he has directed that the gods shall continue to enjoy the revenues of the temples and the yearly allowances given to them, both of corn and money, likewise also the revenue assigned to the gods from the vine land and from gardens and the other properties which belonged to the gods in his father's time; and whereas he directed also, with regard to the priests, that they should pay no more as the tax for admission to the priesthood than what was appointed them throughout his father's reign and until the first year of his own reign; and has relieved the members of the priestly orders from the yearly journey to Alexandria; and whereas he has directed that impressment for the navy shall no longer be employed; and of the tax on fine linen cloth paid by the temples to the crown he has remitted two-thirds; and whatever things were neglected in former times he has restored to their proper condition, having a care how the traditional duties shall be fittingly paid to the gods; and likewise has apportioned justice to all, like Thoth the great and great; and has ordained that those who return of the warrior class, and of others who were unfavourably disposed in the days of the disturbances, should, on their return be allowed to occupy their old possessions; and whereas he provided that cavalry and infantry forces and ships should be sent out against those who invaded Egypt by sea and by land, laying out great sums in money and corn in order that the temples and all those who are in the land might be in safety; and having gone to Lycopolis in the Busirite nome, which had been occupied and fortified against a siege with an abundant store of weapons and all other supplies seeing that disaffection was now of long standing among the impious men gathered into it, who had perpetrated much damage to the temples and to all the inhabitants of Egypt, and having encamped against it, he surrounded it with mounds and trenches and elaborate fortifications; when the Nile made a great rise in the eighth year of his reign, which usually floods the plains, he prevented it, by damming at many points the outlets of the channels spending upon this no small amount of money, and setting cavalry and infantry to guard them, in a short time he took the town by storm and destroyed all the impious men in it, even as Thoth and Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, formerly subdued the rebels in the same district; and as to those who had led the rebels in the time of his father and who had disturbed the land and done wrong to the temples, he came to Memphis to avenge his father and his own kingship, and punished them all as they deserved, at the time that he came there to perform the proper ceremonies for the assumption of the crown; and whereas he remitted what was due to the crown in the temples up to his eighth year, being no small amount of corn and money; so also the fines for the fine linen cloth not delivered to the crown, and of those delivered, the several fees for their verification, for the same period; and he also freed the temples of the tax of the measure of grain for every measure of sacred land and likewise the jar of wine for each measure of vine land; and whereas he bestowed many gifts upon Apis and Mnevis and upon the other sacred animals in Egypt, because he was much more considerate than the kings before him of all that belonged to them; and for their burials he gave what was suitable lavishly and splendidly, and what was regularly paid to their special shrines, with sacrifices and festivals and other customary observances, and he maintained the honours of the temples and of Egypt according to the laws; and he adorned the temple of Apis with rich work, spending upon it gold and silver and precious stones, no small amount; and whereas he has funded temples and shrines and altars, and has repaired those requiring it, having the spirit of a benficent god in matters pertaining to religion; and whereas after enquiry he has been renewing the most honourable of the temples during his reign, as is becoming; in requital of which things the gods have given him health, victory and power, and all other good things, and he and his children shall retain the kingship for all time. WITH PROPITIOUS FORTUNE: It was resolved by the priests of all the temples in the land to increase greatly the existing honours of King PTOLEMY, THE EVER-LIVING, THE BELOVED OF PTAH, THE GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS, likewise those of his parents the Gods Philopatores, and of his ancestors, the Great Euergatai and the Gods Adelphoi and the Gods Soteres and to set up in the most prominent place of every temple an image of the EVER-LIVING KING PTOLEMY, THE BELOVED OF PTAH, THE GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS, which shall be called that of 'PTOLEMY, the defender of Egypt,' beside which shall stand the principal god of the temple, handing him the scimitar of victory, all of which shall be manufactured in the Egyptian fashion; and that the priests shall pay homage to the images three times a day, and put upon them the sacred garments, and perform the other usual honours such as are given to the other gods in the Egyptian festivals; and to establish for King PTOLEMY, THE GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS, sprung of King Ptolemy and Queen Arsinoe, the Gods Philopatores, a statue and golden shrine in each of the temples, and to set it up in the inner chamber with the other shrines; and in the great festivals in which the shrines are carried in procession the shrine of the GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS shall be carried in procession with them. And in order that it may be easily distinguishable now and for all time, there shall be set upon the shrine ten gold crowns of the king, to which shall be added a cobra exactly as on all the crowns adorned with cobras which are upon the other shrines, in the centre of them shall be the double crown which he put on when he went into the temple at Memphis to perform therein the ceremonies for assuming the kingship; and there shall be placed on the square surface round about the crowns, beside the aforementioned crown, golden symbols eight in number signifying that it is the shrine of the king who makes manifest the Upper and the Lower countries. And since it is the 30th of Mesore on which the birthday of the king is celebrated, and likewise the 17th of Paophi on which he succeeded his father in the kingship, they have held these days in honour as name-days in the temples, since they are sources of great blessings for all; it was further decreed that a festival shall be kept in the temples throughout Egypt on these days in every month, on which there shall be sacrifices and libations and all the ceremonies customary at the other festivals and the offerings shall be given to the priests who serve in the temples. And a festival shall be kept for King PTOLEMY, THE EVER-LIVING, THE BELOVED OF PTAH, THE GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS, yearly in the temples throughout the land from the 1st of Thoth for five days, in which they shall wear garlands and perform sacrifices and libations and the other usual honours, and the priests in each temple shall be called priests of the GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS in addition to the names of the other gods whom they serve; and his priesthood shall be entered upon all formal documents and engraved upon the rings which they wear; and private individuals shall also be allowed to keep the festival and set up the aforementioned shrine and have it in their homes; performing the aforementioned celebrations yearly, in order that it may be known to all that the men of Egypt magnify and honour the GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS the king, according to the law. This decree shall be inscribed on a stela of hard stone in sacred and native and Greek characters and set up in each of the first, second and third rank temples beside the image of the ever-living king. 埃及王位的正统继承人，神的虔诚的信徒，埃及王国的重建者和人类文明的维护者，不可战胜的，使埃及繁荣长达30年的，上下埃及的主人，拉神之子，永生的，普塔神的爱子托罗密王，在他在位的第9年的Xandikos季的第四个月为了鼓励与赞扬那些决定永远侍奉神的人们，根据埃及人的第18Mekhir的惯例，颁布诏令。 诏令 来自埃及各地庙宇的大祭司们和预言家们以及神圣的雕刻家们为了参加给托罗密王封神的节日，而来到蒙菲斯朝见国王，他们在节日的当天在蒙菲斯的神庙中宣布： 永生的，普塔神的爱子，托罗密王，THE GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTONS，即老托罗密王和王后Arsinoe的儿子，他有恩于所有的庙宇及住在庙宇中的人们，是他捐献了自己的物品——这些物品代替了神庙的税收，是他带来了埃及的繁荣，并且捐助建立了神庙，还有所有他的其他慷慨恩赐。他减免了各种苛捐杂税为了使他的臣民在他的统治期间能更富裕的生活。他减免了王国中的穷人们的债务。他赦免了那些有罪的人。 他声称，众神应该继续享有神庙的供奉就像他父亲时代所做的。他还宣布，考虑到祭司的（特殊身份），他们仍旧可以继续只交从他父亲时代起直至他即位以来所规定的税收量的权利。并且他还减少了年度前往亚历山大城听取神谕的人数。他指出，对于海军的印象将不再被雇佣。他还为神庙因购买上等的亚麻衣物而要交的税支付2/3的税款。并且对任何过去被忽视的事情，他现在都要令它们重新享有正确的待遇，即要仔细地做到将贸易所得的一部分来谢神，并且这部分费用将被公平地奉献给各个神。他命令归还那些属于武士阶级以及在动乱时期遭受损失的人们的所有财产。 他派遣骑兵、步兵和舰队去抵挡那些想从陆地、海洋入侵埃及的敌人。这样做虽然需要许多金费，但是它们却能为神庙以及所有居住在埃及的人们带来安全。而且他的部队已经消灭了那些聚集在Busirite的Lycopolis的不虔诚的反叛者。在他统治的第八年，由于他事先做了充分的准备已将那些叛军包围住了，当尼罗河的河水泛滥时，他利用洪水及他的军队将叛军的基地给予摧毁，就像当年Thot和Horus神征服国家的叛离者一样，他把那些给埃及带来不安定的叛徒带到蒙菲斯后予以严厉的惩罚，同时他也举行了丰收祭典。 他支付了在他统治的第八年属于神庙的一大笔开销。并且免除了属于神庙的神圣土地上的所有东西的税收。 由于他比他的前任们想的更周到，他赠送了许多礼物给那些在埃及生活的神兽比如Apis和Mnevis，并且给那些死去的神兽在特殊的圣殿按照埃及的法律，举行隆重的祭奠仪式。他还花费巨资装饰了Apis神庙。 他建立了神庙、圣殿和祭坛，也修葺了所有要求修葺的建筑。他拥有向神奉献的精神，事实上是属于宗教（的精神）。而且他在探访之后，在他的统治期间，不停地重建着最雄伟的神庙。相适应地，作为回报，神给予了他健康、胜利、权力和所有最好的东西，以及保佑他和他的子孙永远享有王位。 根据命运：这个国家所有神庙里的祭司都决定给我王永生的，普塔神的爱子，托罗密王，THE GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTONS增加更多的存在的荣耀，就和他的先祖们一样，将为他在每一座神庙中主神的身边竖立雕像并尊称为“托罗密，埃及的守卫者”。所有的祭司每天都将穿着神圣的衣服，像礼拜其他诸神一样，对他的雕像礼拜三次表示敬意。而且在重大的节日中将扛着他的雕像游行。他的神像的制作必须精致且有特色。 进一步诏令&nbps;&nbps;以后每月的这几天都将举行这个节日来赞美永生的，普塔神的爱子，托罗密王，THE GOD EPIPHANES EUCHARISTONS，并且要让埃及所有的臣民都记住和参加这个节日。 这份诏令应该被神圣地用本地语和希腊语雕刻在一块坚硬的石头上并且竖立在每一等级的神庙中的永生的国王的雕像旁边。 (责任编辑：admin) |