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An application from Aurelius Spartiates alias Chairemon, a former gymnasiarch and town councillor of Oxyrhynchus, writing through his secretary to the strategos Aurelius Sarapion. He asks that payment be authorized for 300 jars of wine he supplied, on the prefect Mussius Aemilianus' order, for the army supply (annona) of the soldiers with the prefect. Oxyrhynchus, AD 258-260.
The annona here is the levy of provisions for troops; Lucius Mussius Aemilianus was prefect of Egypt and later briefly claimed imperial power. The end of the document is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Payment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αὐρήλιος Σπαρτιάτης ὁ καὶ Χαιρήμων γυμνασιαρχήσας βουλευτὴς τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως διʼ ἐμοῦ Αὐρηλίου Ἀγάθου γραμματέως. Αὐρηλίῳ Σαραπίωνι στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. αἰτοῦμαι ἐπισταλῆναι τε…[…]α…[…] τως εἰς τιμὴν οὗ παρέσχον οἴνου κεραμίων τριακοσίων ἐκ προστάξεως το…
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