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Prefect's edict on contributions of Alexandrian ex-councillors for bath repairs TM 15348Oxyrhynchos30. Aug. - 28. Sept. 279

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An edict of the prefect of Egypt Hadrianius Sallustius ordering former members of the Alexandrian city council since Aurelian's second year, wherever in Egypt they live, to register within thirty days and pay a talent each toward repairing the city's baths. Found at Oxyrhynchus, it dates to Thoth of Probus' fifth year (AD 279).

In English machine translation

Hadrianius Sallustius, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, says: It having been ordered by […] that each of those who have served as councillors in the most splendid city of the Alexandrians from the second year of the reign of Aurelian, now among the gods, and who reside not in the city only but also in all the nomes of Egypt, should contribute a talent towards the repair of the […] baths, […] I have made known by letter to those (?) in each place […]; but since […] some who have been […] reside in the […], I have necessarily decided to proclaim to these by this edict of mine that they should make themselves known as if here, if they are unregistered, and present themselves, and the […] according to the public accounts of the city […], knowing that unless through the registration and the […] they make themselves known […] within thirty days […] of the councillor's dignity […] they will reckon to themselves […] fittingly, as having fulfilled (?) both the common […] and the prefect's order […]. Post this up. […] Year 5 of Probus Augustus, Thoth. [… 6 lines lost …]

The scribe wrote 'Aurelius' for Aurelian; the editor corrected it. The closing 'Post this up' is the order to display the edict publicly.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Edict 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 30. Aug. - 28. Sept. 279 · Oxyrhynchos

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