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Communication to the logistes Ammonianus alias Gerontius TM 15767Oxyrhynchos16. März 313

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The opening of a document addressed to Ammonianus alias Gerontius, logistes (city curator) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, dated by the consulship of Maximinus and Constantine. The sender seems to be described as a citizen of Alexandria; the rest of the text is lost.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Galerius Valerius Maximinus and Flavius Valerius Constantinus, Emperors, Augusti, for the 3rd time, Phamenoth 20. To Ammonianus also called Gerontius, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, […] of the most illustrious city of the Alexandrians. There is (?) […] […] […]

The logistes (Latin curator civitatis) was the chief financial and administrative official of a city in this period. Only the dating formula, address and the start of the body survive.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Communication to a Logistes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.46.3305

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 16. März 313 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Γαλερίου Οὐαλερίου Μαξιμίνου καὶ Φλαυίου Οὐαλερίου Κωνσταντίνου Αὐτοκρατόρων Σεβαστῶν τὸ γ Φαμενὼθ κ […]Αμμωνιανῷ τῷ καὶ Γεροντίῳ λογιστῇ Οξυρυγχίτου […]… τῆς λαμπροτάτης πόλεως Αλεξανδρέων. ὑπάρχει […]……[…] [… ? lines lost …]