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Official correspondence on civic accounts and boats for stone transport from Akoris TM 15204unbekannt169 - 176 (?)

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Fragment of official correspondence copied into a register, including a report to the dioiketes on civic accounts for a four-month period and a letter to the trierarch Lucretius Blandus about boats sent to Akoris to transport stone for adorning Alexandria by order of the prefect. It dates to the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

In English machine translation

[…] […] stone (?) […] […] sent […] […] the dioiketes […] to be dispatched […] […] (roll) 315 (?), sheet 2 […] […] It is as follows: […] To the most excellent dioiketes [from the …] accounts […] to me, lord, by Ag[…] […] of the civic accounts of the four-month period from the month [Thoth to Choiak] […] […] of year […] of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus [Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus] Maximus, the copies […] I write in duplicate so that you may know. […] Year […], Tybi […] […] Copy […] to Lucretius Blandus, trierarch, [many greetings] […] […] the most eminent prefect having [long ago] ordered […] to send [boats] up to Akoris for the transport [of stones …] […] for the adornment of the most splendid [city of the Alexandrians] […] […] handed over to me by the […] of the goose-herds […] […] son of Eponychos and Herakleios son of Drakon […] […] of Agathos Daimon […] […] to the scribe of the city for this purpose and not […] […] and to the soldier Sabinus sent by you […] […] I sent the statements for the half-freight […] […] [Please therefore,] once the boats have been presented, […] most […], write back to me. Year […], Mecheir

The texts are copies from an official letter-book, marked with roll and sheet numbers. A trierarch here is a naval officer commanding transport ships; the half-freight (heminaulon) was a partial payment for shipping.

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

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.harr.2.197

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 169 - 176 (?)

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