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p.oxy.42.3029 253 - 261Oxyrhynchos

Letter to Strategi via HGV-meta

Circular letter to the strategoi of several nomes. Fragment of an official circular letter addressed to the strategoi of several listed nomes, mentioning the month of Mesore, a centurion and a 'most fortunate day' connected with the emperor Valerian the elder. It dates to AD 253-261 and comes from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 16428. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] … [v] […]χρ […]στρατηγοῖς τῶν ὑπογεγραμμένων νομῶν[…] […]…νων ὑπὲρ τοῦ Μεσορὴ μηνὸς[…] […]εντι ἑκατοντάρχῳ οπιν[…] […]τῆς εὐτυχεστάτης ἡμέρας […] […] Οὐαλεριανοῦ τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου[…] […]ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς εὔχομαι […]ιτυ Κυνοπολίτου ἄνω

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] … [verso] […] […] to the strategoi of the nomes listed below […] […] for the month of Mesore […] […] to the centurion […] […] of the most fortunate day […] […] of Valerianus the elder […] […] I pray for your health. […] Upper Kynopolite (nome)

Connections

Found at Oxyrhynchus

Cross-references (3)

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