Prefect's letter on a Roman and Alexandrian's exemption from the office of collector TM 16913Alexandria

A letter from the prefect of Egypt Flavius Titianus to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, forwarding a petition from a man who, as a Roman citizen and Alexandrian, objected to being nominated as tax collector and should be released. It is followed by an excerpt of earlier court proceedings before the prefect Syriacus in which an advocate cites prefectural grants of exemption from liturgies.

In English machine translation

The regnal formula 'Antoninus and the deified Verus' is unusual; the prefects Titianus and Syriacus point to the reign of Marcus Aurelius (c. AD 165-166). Roman citizens of Alexandria were normally exempt from liturgies in the nome villages.

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