cpr.8.26
[…]τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν[…]Σεβαστοῦ τὸ[…]καὶ Λικινίου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ[…][…] […]…ου ἄρξαντος βουλευτοῦ διαδεχομένου τὴν[…] […] ἄρξαντος βουλευτοῦ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως[…] […]ωζεις δὲ ἐκείνου απ…[…] […]στρα[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15549
Beginning of a document naming councillors of Hermopolis TM 15549Hermopolis319 - 322
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Opening lines of a document from Hermopolis, dated by the consulship of the emperors including Licinius the younger as Caesar (AD 319-322). It mentions former magistrates who were councillors of Hermopolis, one acting as a deputy, but the purpose of the document is lost.
In English machine translation
[…] of our masters […] Augustus for the […] time and Licinius the most noble Caesar for the […] time […]
[…]…os, former magistrate, councillor, acting as deputy for the […]
[…] former magistrate, councillor of Hermopolis […]
[…] … of that one … […]
[…]stra[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
The date comes from the consular formula naming Licinius as Caesar. The genre is a guess, since only the dating clause and the titles of officials survive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anfang eines Dokuments). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.