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An official letter from Korellius Galbas to Chrestion, procurator of Pharos (the harbour island of Alexandria), forwarding a complaint from Claudia Philoromaea, submitted through her daughter and another woman. He orders that a certain Septimius Ammonios be prevented from leaving and that the officials who supervise departures be informed. The text dates to about AD 237.
Pharos controlled sailings from Alexandria, so stopping a departure there meant preventing someone from leaving Egypt by sea. The copy was found at Oxyrhynchus though the letter concerns Alexandria; the end 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 Official Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Κορέλλιος Γάλβας Χρηστίωνι ἐπιτρόπῳ Φάρου χαίρειν. τὰ γραφέντα μοι ὑπὸ Κλαυδίας Φιλορωμέας διὰ Κλαυδίας Ἰσιδώρας θυγατρὸς καὶ Κλαυδίας Ἐρωτίλλης τῆς καὶ Ἀπολιναρίας ὑποταγῆναι ἐκέλευσα. σὺ ἐντυχὼν αὐτοῖς φρόντισον ἐπισχεῖν τὴν ἔξοδον οὗ φασιν Σεπτιμίου Ἀμμωνίου καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις οἳ…
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