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Copy of a letter from the emperor Trajan to the people of Alexandria, early in his reign. Recalling the benefactions of his deified father Nerva, he declares his goodwill and says he has commended the city to himself and to the prefect of Egypt, Pompeius Planta, who is to look after its peace, food supply and rights.
The copy survives on a papyrus found at Oxyrhynchus; Alexandria is the addressee. The 'deified father' is Nerva, Trajan's adoptive father, and the date follows from Trajan's second tribunician power..
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 Trajan to Alexandria). 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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