Letter of Herakleides, praepositus pagi, on returning fugitive villagers of Karanis TM 10335Kom Aushim (Karanis)308/309 A.D.

Herakleides, praepositus of the 5th pagus of the Arsinoite nome, writes to a fellow praepositus about an imperial order concerning strangers residing in villages and a payment of 5 folles to the treasury. Because the villagers of Karanis complained that some of their people are in his colleague's district, he asks him to force the villages there to hand them over, and offers to return any of the colleague's people found in his own district.

In English machine translation

A praepositus pagi was the official in charge of a pagus, a rural administrative district of a nome in the early 4th century. Part of the line describing the imperial order is damaged, so the exact terms (a reward or a payment of 5 folles, and the phrase read as 'before the earthquake') are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to a Praepositus Pagi). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.