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Report of the property registrars on the estate of the condemned Paulus TM 16870Oxyrhynchos305 - 306 (?)

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A report by the two keepers of the property archives of the Oxyrhynchite nome to the city's syndics. After an order from the procurator of the privy purse to confiscate the property of a condemned man named Paulus, they state that the archive registers show he owned no registered property. Written at Oxyrhynchus about AD 305-306.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our lords the emperors Constantius for the […] time and […] Maximianus for the […] time, Augusti. To Aurelius Hierakion also called Dionysios, gymnasiarch, councillor, […] prytanis of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, and […]mos, gymnasiarch, and Sarapion […], syndics of the same city, from the Aurelii […]n also called Herakleianos, former high priest, and Agathinos, exegetes, both councillors of the same city, keepers of the archives of the same nome, to their dearest friends, greeting. You have informed us that Aurelius Athanasios, procurator of the privy purse in Egypt, has ordered, by what he wrote in accordance with the divine command of our masters the emperors and Caesars, following the letter sent to him by Neratius Apollonides, that the property of Paulus from the Oxyrhynchite nome, who was condemned by sentence of the most eminent governor of the Thebaid, Satrius Arianus, be assigned to the accounts of the treasury and be handed over in writing. Therefore, having examined the registers deposited in the archives, we declare that Paulus owns nothing and has not been registered at all in the registers deposited in the archives, nor do we know of his wife any […] that the aforementioned Paulus does not appear registered in the same registers deposited in the public archives […]. I pray for your health, dearest friends. Year […] and […] of our lords Constantius and Maximianus Augusti […] Maximinus, the most illustrious Caesars […].

The 'privy purse' (Latin res privata) was the imperial treasury department that received confiscated property. Paulus was condemned by the governor of the Thebaid, Satrius Arianus, known from Christian tradition as a persecutor, so Paulus may have been a Christian.

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

p.oxy.33.2665

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 305 - 306 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

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