Official letter from the strategos and royal scribe of the Oxyrhynchite nome to Ammonios and his partners, passing on a ruling of Claudius Iustus, head of the Idios Logos, about people holding building plots inside temple enclosures. Ammonios and partners, holders of plots in the enclosure of Athena at Oxyrhynchus, are told to submit the required documents within two months. Dated 28 August 149 AD at Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
Aelius Aphrodisios, strategos, and Serenos also called Sarapion, royal scribe of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Ammonios also called Pets[…], son of Ammonios son of Pekysis, and partners, greeting.
Claudius Iustus, vir egregius, in charge of the Idios Logos, at the assize of the nome which he held in the past 11th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, when a case was brought concerning those who have acquired building plots within the enclosures of temples, after considering everything declared as follows: 'Those who joined with the persons who submitted the joint valuation under Tuscus may duly lay claim to the sites. But those who, having been notified, did not submit, if even now they do not produce (their documents) within two months, shall be liable to the penalties laid down.' Since this has been communicated by one of us, as is proper, and by the city scribe Herakleides, who recently […] the individual list of those now holding building plots within the temple enclosures of the metropolis, you are of necessity notified in writing so that within the time limit given you may submit what has been requested regarding the building plots you were declared to hold within the enclosure of Athena in the quarter of the Thoeris temple, at Thenepmoi.
[…] Sarapammon, scribe, I delivered (it).
Year 12 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mesore, intercalary day 5.
The Idios Logos was the Roman office administering special revenues, including confiscated and temple property. The 'joint valuation under Tuscus' apparently refers to an earlier assessment under the prefect Gaius Caecina Tuscus (1st century AD).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter concerning the Idios Logos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.