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An edict of Titus Pactumeius Magnus, prefect of Egypt, found at Oxyrhynchus, setting a ten-day limit within which people who received the prefect's written reply 'Apply to me before the tribunal' must actually present their case. Those who fail to do so will gain no benefit from the reply; the end of the text is badly damaged.
A 'subscription' (hypographe) is the official's written answer appended to a petition. Pactumeius Magnus was prefect around AD 176-177; the middle clauses are partly corrupt or damaged and the sense of the second conditional is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Edict of 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.
Τίτος Πακτουμήιος Μάγνος ἔπαρχος Αἰγύπτου λέγει· εἴ τινες ὑπογραφὰς ἔτυχον δόντες βιβλίδια ἢ ἐπιστολὰς τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον ἔντυχέ μοι πρὸ βήματος ἢ μετὰ τὸ διάταγμα τοῦτο τύχοιεν, ἴστωσαν ὅτι ἐὰν μὴ ἐντὸς δέκα ἡμερῶν τοῦ λαβεῖν τὴν ὑπογραφὴν ἢ τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἐντυχ…ται οὔθʼ ὁτιοῦν κα…
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