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Fragment of a date clause naming Decius and Herennius Etruscus TM 15343Oxyrhynchos16. Sept. 250

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A fragment preserving only the dating clause of a lost document from Oxyrhynchus, dated by the reign of the emperor Decius and his son Herennius Etruscus as Caesar. The date corresponds to 16 September AD 250.

In English machine translation

[…] Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius Pius Felix Augustus and of Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius the most venerable Caesar, the Augusti, Thoth 19. […]

Only the regnal dating formula survives, so the type of document cannot be determined.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of a Date-Clause). 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.oxy.51.3608

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 16. Sept. 250 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] ἔτους β Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Γαΐου Μεσσίου Κυΐντου Τραϊανοῦ Δεκίου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Κυΐντου Ἑρεννίου Ἐτρούσκου Μεσσίου Δεκίου τοῦ σεβασμιωτάτου Καίσαρος Σεβαστῶν. Θὼθ ιθ. [… ? lines lost …]