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p.oxy.4.709 ca. 50Oxyrhynchos

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Letter on the arrangements for the prefect's assize tour. Fragment of a letter or official communication from Oxyrhynchus, around AD 50, setting out the arrangements for the prefect's assize (conventus) tour: hearings at Pelusium for the eastern Delta nomes, at Memphis for the Thebaid, the Heptanomia and the Arsinoite, and at Alexandria for the rest of Lower Egypt. It also mentions accounting offices, scribes and unsown land; the verso is addressed to Theon. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]σιον …[…] τὸ λογιστήριον[…] διαλογισμοῦ ἐστάθη ἵνα τῇ […] ὁ ἡγεμὼν τὸν ἀνάπλουν ποιήσηται καὶ […] εἰς Πηλούσιον ἀπελθὼν διαλογίσηται Τανίτην Σεθροίτην Ἀραβίαν Αὐίαν ?, ἐν Μένφει γενόμενος ὁμοίως Θηβαίδα ἑπτὰ νομοὺς Ἀρσινοίτην, τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς τῆς κάτω χώρας νομοὺς εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν. ταῦτα δὲ ω[…] ἐστάθη εἰς δὲ τὰ λογιστήριά τινα κατʼ ἄνδρα πάντων τῶν απ[…] αἰτούμεθα. λοιπὸν οὖν ε[…] …[…]γραμματεῖς ἄχρι …[…] […] ἄσποροι τῆς δι…ωτ[…] […]σταλείσας …[…] […]ταδα…[…] […]ι[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] Θέωνι δ[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] […] […] … […] the accounting office […] […] of the assize (?) it was determined that, at the […], the prefect should make his voyage upriver and […], going to Pelusium, should hold the assize for the Tanite, Sethroite, Arabian and Augustamnic (?) nomes; likewise when at Memphis, for the Thebaid, the Seven Nomes and the Arsinoite; and the remaining nomes of the lower country at Alexandria. These things […] were determined, and for the accounting offices certain […] man by man of all the […] we request. For the rest, then, […] … […] scribes until … […] […] unsown land of the … […] […] sent … […] […] […] […] [verso] To Theon […]

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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