Document of Melas, former gymnasiarch, to the logistes Dioskourides TM 15211Oxyrhynchos322 (?)

Opening of a document, probably a petition or application, addressed by Melas son of Zenon, a former gymnasiarch and town councillor, to Dioskourides, the logistes (city curator) of Oxyrhynchus. It concerns the people of the village of Paneuei, but the substance is lost.

In English machine translation

The dating formula, the year after the consulship of Licinius and his son, reflects a period when the consuls of the year were not yet known or recognized in Egypt. The logistes was the chief financial official of the city; the text may well be a petition, but too little survives to be sure.

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