Acknowledgement of receipt of five-day alum accounts TM 17499Oxyrhynchos (?)

Aurelius Domitius, an official overseeing state boats, acknowledges to three former magistrates of Oxyrhynchus, who served as overseers of the alum monopoly, that he received their five-day alum accounts for Thoth 1-5 of year 6 and forwarded the copies to the various offices. The letter is dated in year 9 of Severus Alexander.

In English machine translation

Alum was a state monopoly in Roman Egypt, and copies of its accounts were distributed to several financial offices. The accounts are said to be for year 6 while the dating line gives year 9, a discrepancy present in the text as edited.

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