Document addressé au logiste d'Arsinoïte
Letter to the logistes of the Arsinoite nome, NN, son of Philippos, from Aurelius
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Document from an Oxyrhynchite addressed to the logistes of the Arsinoite nome TM 11292Arsinoite nome, Province of Egypt8 May, 417 A.D.
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Opening of a document addressed to the logistes (city curator) of the Arsinoite nome, Flavius […]ios son of Philippos, by Aurelius […] son of Germanos, a man from Oxyrhynchus then staying at Arsinoe. It is dated by consuls to 8 May 417; the body of the text is lost.
In English machine translation
After the consulship of our master Theodosius, eternal Augustus, for the 7th time, and of Flavius Palladius, vir clarissimus,
Pachon 13, in the city of the Arsinoites.
To Flavius […]ios son of Philippos, logistes of the Arsinoite (nome), from Aurelius […]s son of Germanos, from the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, at present […] in the city of the Arsinoites
[…]
The logistes (curator civitatis) was the chief financial official of a city in late Roman Egypt. The nature of the document (petition, declaration or application) cannot be determined since only the prescript survives.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Document adressé au logiste d’Arsinoïte). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.got.39
μετὰ τὴνὑπατείαν τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν Θεοδοσίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου τὸ ζ καὶ Φλαουίου Παλλαδίου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Παχὼν ιγ ἐν Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλει. Φλαουίῳ […]ίῳ Φιλίππου λογιστῇ Ἀρσινοίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου […]ς υἱοῦ Γερμανοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως τὰ νῦν […]…ων…