Fragments of a register of outgoing letters of the town council of Oxyrhynchus, written through its prytanis to the strategos and others in Thoth of the regnal year 19/18/11 (AD 302). The surviving entries mention Alexandria, tunics (sticharia), former magistrates and men from the Misenum fleet.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…] dearest.
[…] to the most splendid Alexandria […] and to keep to (?) the tunics (sticharia)
[…]
[…] of the former magistrates (?)
[…] to be examined whether […] with the appropriate order it must be accomplished
[…] ordered that instructions be sent to you so that […] so that in the presence of all
[…] present […]
[column 2]
[…]
[…]
[…] brought (?) […]
[…] from the three […]
[…] our […]
Year 19, 18 and 11, Thoth […]
To the same, the council through the prytanis […]
to the […] here […]
in succession, written in […]
Year 19, 18 and 11, Thoth […]
To the same, the council through the prytanis […]
of those being sent […]
supervisor of the service […] from the Misenum fleet […]
Year 19, 18 and 11, Thoth […]
To the strategos, the council through the prytanis […]
[…]
[…]
The triple regnal year 19, 18 and 11 refers to the reigns of Diocletian and Maximian, and of Constantius and Galerius. Sticharia were tunics, probably requisitioned clothing for the army.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Register of Correspondence). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.