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Order to send ship crews and shipwrights for an imperial fleet TM 16032Hermopolites

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Official letter from Aurelius Dioskourides, strategos or exactor of the Hermopolite nome, to Aurelius Asklepiades, praepositus of the 15th pagus, passing on the prefect's order, based on letters of the comes Valacius, to conscript helmsmen, bow-officers, shipwrights, clerks and sailors for a fleet of the emperor Constantius. The men were to be sent under guard to Antinoopolis according to an attached list.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Dioskourides, strategos or exactor of the Hermopolite nome, to Aurelius Asklepiades, praepositus of the 15th pagus, greetings. The manliness of my lord the most eminent prefect Flavius […], as by divine command and letters of my lord the most eminent comes […]ius Valacius, has ordered that helmsmen and bow-officers and shipwrights and clerks and sailors be sent to the fleet which […] has been ordered to be procured in the name of our master Constantius, the ever victorious Augustus. Since, therefore, the letters of the higher authority require that these men be conducted under reliable guard to the city of the Antinoites for handing over to those sent for this purpose from the office staff, make haste, on reading the list appended below, in accordance with the […] apportionment, [to …] the men […] […]

The reign of Constantius II and the comes Valacius point to the mid-4th century AD. A breve is an appended list or schedule, here of men to be conscripted.

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 Strategus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Αὐρήλιος Διοσκουρίδης στρατηγὸς ἤτοι ἐξάκτωρ Ἑρμοπολίτου Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀσκληπιάδῃ πραιποσίτῳ ιε πάγου χαίρειν. προσέταξεν ἡ ἀνδρεία τοῦ κυρίου μου διασημοτάτου ἡγεμόνος Φλαυίου …[…]…α…ιου ὡς ἐκ θείου προστάγματος καὶ γραμμάτων τοῦ κυρίου μου διασημοτάτου κόμιτος […]…ιου Οὐαλακίου κυβερ…