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A letter from Statilius Ammianus, prefect of Egypt, appointing Septimius Eudaimon, a former kosmetes of Alexandria, as embolarch (official in charge of the grain shipment) of the Oxyrhynchite nome. He orders him to ensure that all public pack animals serve the grain transport so the ships are not delayed. It dates to the reign of Aurelian, at Oxyrhynchus.
The embole was the compulsory grain shipment to Alexandria and Rome; the embolarch supervised its delivery. The regnal year number is lost, so only the month and day (Pauni 4) survive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of a Prefect). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Στατίλιος Ἀμμιανὸς Σεπτιμίῳ Εὐδαίμονι κοσμητεύσαντι Ἀλεξανδρέων υἱῷ Σεπτιμίου Σερήνου χαίρειν. κατέστησά σε τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου ἐνβολάρχην. εἰδὼς τοίνυν τὸν τῆς ὑπηρεσίας κίνδυνον φρόντισον τὰ δημόσια κτήνη σύνπαντα ποιῆσαι τῇ ἐνβολῇ ὑπηρετῆσαι ὡς ἂν μὴ τὰ πεμπόμενα πλοῖα εἰς τὴν σιτ…
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