Fragment of an official text, probably an order or sworn undertaking, about loading chaff and barley onto boats within a day and supervising boats sailing up and down the river at each harbour. It is dated by the regnal years of the Tetrarchs and subscribed by Aurelius Eulalios, an assistant of the strategos.
In English machine translation
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[…] of vessels (?) […]
so that everything may be sealed (?) […]
and all the chaff and the barley […]
see to it that of the boats […]
for within 1 day the boats [are to be] loaded […]
so that no blame may follow […]
in each harbour have […]
the boats sailing upstream and downstream and […]
of his […].
Year 15 and 3 and 1 of our lords Maximianus and Severus Augusti and Maximinus and Constantine the most noble Caesars, […]
Aurelius Eulalios, assistant of the strategos, […]
Year 15, 3, 1, Phamenoth […]
The regnal formula (Galerius' year 15, Severus' year 3, Maximinus' and Constantine's year 1) points to AD 306/307; the month Phamenoth corresponds to roughly March 307. The document type is uncertain; it has been described as an affidavit concerning transport.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Affidavit concerning transportation?). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.