Fragment of an administrative letter mentioning the magister TM 16279unbekannt2. - 5. Jan. 311

Fragment of an official administrative letter addressed to an official styled 'your diligence', mentioning a certain Ammonios and the 'most perfect magister' and asking that necessary measures be taken. It is dated by the consuls of AD 310 and written in early January, which the records place in AD 311.

In English machine translation

'Your diligence' (epimeleia) is an honorific form of address for officials. The consular date names the consuls of 310, used postconsularly into January 311 before the new consuls were known.

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