EDICT OF MARCUS AGRIPPA AND AUGUSTUS
   
CONCERNING THE RELIGIOUS POLICY
   
27 BC )
 

 
( H. W. Pleket, The Greek Inscriptions in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden..., Leiden, 1958, n. 57
 ).

 

 
      “Imperator, Caesar, son of a god, Augustus, [for the seventh time], and Marcus Agrippa, the son of Lucius, consuls : [have ordered] : [If] there are any public or sacred places in the cities [or in the surrounding area] of each city of the province and if there are now and will be in the future any [sacred objects] in these places, let [no one] take them away, or buy them, or accept them as a gift from [anybody]. Whatever has been taken from these places and has been bought or accepted as a gift, let [the governor] of the province see to it that these objects are restored to the [public or] sacred [places] of the city and let him not administer justice [concerning those objects which will be returned immediately].”