Fragment of a register of outgoing correspondence from a strategos's office in the Arsinoite nome, AD 148. It contains the end of a report on a property dispute over half-shares of land of Haronnophris, and an entry forwarding a copy of a letter to the prefect Petronius Honoratus about remeasuring dyke works and clearing canals.
In English machine translation
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[…] the arouras of Haronnophris, the other half share
[…] of Haronnophris, she having submitted as proof a copy of a loan in the 5th year of Antoninus Caesar the
lord, Harbichis acknowledges that the half share is hers
[…] necessarily, lord, I report to you what came to light at the
examination, so that you may order what seems good to you to be made known. […]
[…] Tybi 10
[…] concerning the remeasurement of dyke works, sheet 35
Of the letter which I wrote to Petronius Honoratus, the most excellent prefect, concerning the remeasurement of dyke works and the clearing of canals, I have appended the copy, lord, so that you may know.
Year 11, Epeiph 22
And the copy of the letter was appended.
The subscription is to be seen in the register of the prefectural letters.
The date corresponds to Year 11 of Antoninus Pius, Epeiph 22; 'sheet 35' refers to the numbered sheet (kollema) in the roll of copied documents. Petronius Honoratus was prefect of Egypt.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di un registro dell’ufficio dello strategos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.