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chrest.wilck.202 7. Aug. 104Arsinoites

Prefectural edict ordering return home for the census. Edict of Gaius Vibius Maximus, prefect of Egypt, ordering everyone living away from their home districts to return there for the house-by-house census and to resume farming. Those with good reason to remain in Alexandria were to register with a cavalry prefect, Festus, and obtain a signed permit. It dates to AD 104 and survives in a copy from the Arsinoite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

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Transcription

[2] Γάιος Οὐίβιος Μάξιμος ἔπαρχος Αἰγύπτου λέγει· τῆς κατʼ οἰκίαν ἀπογραφῆς ἐνεστώσης ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν πᾶσιν τοῖς καθʼ ἥντινα δήποτε αἰτίαν ἀποδημοῦσιν ἀπὸ τῶν νομῶν προσαγγέλλεσθαι ἐπανελθεῖν εἰς τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἐφέστια ἵνα καὶ τὴν συνήθη οἰκονομίαν τῆς ἀπογραφῆς πληρώσωσιν καὶ τῇ προσηκούσῃ αὐτοῖς γεωργίαι προσκαρτερήσωσιν. εἰδὼς μέντοι ὅτι ἐνίων τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς χώρας ἡ πόλις ἡμῶν ἔχει χρείαν βούλομαι πάντας τοὺς εὔλογον δοκοῦντας ἔχειν τοῦ ἐνθάδε ἐπιμένειν αἰτίαν ἀπογράφεσθαι παρὰ Βουλ…[…] Φήστῳ ἐπάρχωι εἴλης, ὃν ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἔταξα, οὗ καὶ τὰς ὑπογραφὰς οἱ ἀποδείξαντες ἀναγκαίαν αὑτῶν τὴν παρουσίαν λήμψονται κατὰ τοῦτο τὸ παράγγελμα ἐντὸς τῆς τριακάδος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Ἐπεὶφ[…]ἐπανελθεῖν μεθʼ ἧς[…] ὑπογραφῆς τοῦ ἐπιλ[…]…ρεθηι οὐ μετρίως[…]εὖ γὰρ οἶδα τὰ ἐντε[…]θαι ὅσον … τῇ π[…]ἀδικοῦντες

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[column 2] Gaius Vibius Maximus, prefect of Egypt, says: Since the house-by-house census is in progress, it is necessary that all who for any reason whatsoever are away from their nomes be summoned to return to their own homes, so that they may both complete the customary formalities of the census and attend diligently to the farming that is their proper concern. Knowing, however, that our city has need of some of the people from the countryside, I wish all who think they have a reasonable cause for remaining here to register with Boul[…] Festus, prefect of a cavalry unit (ala), whom I have appointed for this purpose, from whom those who show that their presence is necessary will receive signed permits in accordance with this edict, within [the 30th] of the present month Epeiph […] to return […] with which […] permit […] not moderately […] for I know well the […] as much as […] wrongdoing.

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Found at Arsinoite nome

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