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A covering letter from Aurelius Horion, strategos of the Oasis of the Seven Nomes, to the epistrategos Diodorus, reporting that he has sent the monthly accounts in money and kind and the minutes of his official proceedings for Thoth and Phaophi of year 8 of Probus. It was written in Hathyr, AD 282.
The 'Oasis of the Seven Nomes' is the official name of the Small Oasis (Bahariya) district. A hypomnematographos was a high Alexandrian official, here a former title held by the strategos.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from a Strategus to an Epistrategus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] […]ιμίῳ Διοδώρῳ τῷ κρατίστῳ ἐπιστρατήγῳ Αὐρήλιος Ὡρίων γενόμενος ὑπομνηματογράφος στρατηγὸς Ὀάσεως Ἑπτὰ Νομῶν χαίρειν. τὸν μηνιαῖον λόγον ἀργυρικὸν καὶ γενικὸν καὶ τοὺς γενομένους ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ ὑπομνηματισμοὺς διμήνου Θὼθ Φαῶφι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος η ἔτους τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου…
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