Fragment of the Edict on Maximum Prices (in Greek)

Fragment of the Edict on Maximum Prices (in Greek)

Fragment of the Edict on Maximum Prices (in Greek) re-used as part of the door frame of the medieval church of John Chrysostom, Geronthres, Greece.

Issued by Diocletian in 301, the Edict on Maximum prices gives the maximum prices for more than 1,200 products, raw materials, labor, services, modes of transport, animals, and for enslaved peoples. Fresh green animal fodder could be purchased for 1 denarius communis (the lowest price listed) and a male lion or purple dyed silk for 150,000 denari. The edict survives in fragments on stone inscriptions in both Greek and Latin, all but one of which were found in the Eastern part of the Empire.

https://www.academia.edu/23644199/New_ English_translation_of_the_Price_Edict_of_D iocletianus