Copy of a letter of the acting prefect Mussius Aemilianus about Pasion TM 15990Oxyrhynchos19. Jan. 258

Copy of an official letter from Mussius Aemilianus, acting prefect of Egypt, ordering an official (probably a strategos) to make a certain Pasion appear in connection with a matter apparently involving a loan, with a petition attached. It is dated Year 5, Tybi 24 (19 January 258) and comes from Oxyrhynchus; the back carries a fragmentary related text.

In English machine translation

Mussius Aemilianus was acting prefect ("administering the prefecture") rather than formally appointed. The addressee's title and the loan reference rest on damaged words and are uncertain.

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