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Covering letter from Claudius Xenophon, epistrategos, forwarding to a local official a petition submitted to him by Agath[…], Ptolemaios, Neilos and others, followed by the opening of the petition itself. It mentions the imperial treasury and dates to year 21 of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus (AD 180-181), from Theadelphia.
The addressee's title as acting strategos and the epistrategos title are restorations. The 'most sacred treasury' (hierotaton tameion) is the imperial fiscus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Κλαύδιος Ξενοφῶν[…]τῷ δεῖνα διαδεχομένῳ στρατηγίαν τοῦ[…]νομοῦ. βιβλιδίων δοθέντων μοι ὑπὸ Ἀγαθ[…]καὶ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Νείλου καὶ[…]τοῦ καὶ Ἰσιδώρου σημειωσάμενος[…]τῷ ἱερωτάτῷ ταμιείῳ[…] θεμως πρ[…] ἐκθέσεως[…] ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι ἔτους κα […] Κλαυδίῳ Ξενοφῶντι τῷ κρατίστῳ ἐπιστρα…
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