Since their discovery in 1993, the Petra papyri have drawn the attention of both historians and archaeologists because of the amount of information they contain. The content of the papyri essentially deals with the property inheritance and transaction of a certain Theodoros son of Obodianos and his family in Petra and its vicinity, in the period between AD 537 and 593. The present paper focuses on the titles of Petra mentioned in these papyri and on their importance for the understanding of Petra in the Roman and Byzantine periods. Petra's full titles are: ‘Imperial Colony Antoniana, Distinguished, Holy (?), Mother of the Colonies, Hadriana Petra, and Metropolis of [the Province] Tertia Palaestina Salutaris’. The main components of these titles are attested elsewhere, but they appear in their entirety in the Petra papyri for the first time. The various titles of Petra as they appear in the papyri concerned clearly indicate that Petra continued to style itself as an important place in the Byzantine Empire. The picture that emerges from Petra's titles and other evidence from the papyri is that, in the sixth century Petra was still a place inhabited by relatively wealthy people, which had a major role in the economy of the Byzantine Empire.

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六世纪佩特拉的头衔：来自佩特拉纸莎草的证据

自 1993 年被发现以来，佩特拉纸莎草纸因其包含的大量信息而引起了历史学家和考古学家的注意。纸莎草纸的内容主要涉及公元 537 年至 593 年期间，奥博迪亚诺斯 (Obodianos) 的某个儿子狄奥多罗斯 (Theodoros) 及其家人在佩特拉及其附近地区的财产继承和交易。纸莎草纸及其对理解罗马和拜占庭时期佩特拉的重要性。佩特拉的全称是：“帝国殖民地安东尼安娜，杰出的，神圣的（？），殖民地之母，哈德里亚娜佩特拉和 [省] Tertia Palaestina Salutaris 的大都会”。这些书名的主要组成部分在别处得到证实，但它们首次完整地出现在佩特拉纸莎草纸中。出现在相关纸莎草纸中的佩特拉的各种头衔清楚地表明佩特拉继续将自己塑造成拜占庭帝国的一个重要地方。从佩特拉的头衔和纸莎草纸的其他证据中可以看出，在六世纪佩特拉仍然是一个相对富裕的人居住的地方，他们在拜占庭帝国的经济中发挥了重要作用。