One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 18518

Letter of a prefect of Egypt to the strategoi ordering public posting TM 18518unbekannt

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Fragmentary letter, apparently from a prefect of Egypt to the strategoi of an epistrategy, concerning a correction of affairs and the improvement of the civic order. It ends by ordering that a copy be publicly posted in the nome capitals and prominent places, dated Year 23, Phamenoth.

In English machine translation

[1] […] […] substituted (?) […] […] […] in the 3rd year […] to put in order […] all […] of the Romans […] whether through ignorance or […] correction […] [2] that it should become clear to all those […] of the ancient […] and the civic order towards the better and more prosperous […] Take care to post a copy of this my letter publicly both in the metropoleis and in the most conspicuous places of the nomes. I pray for your health. Year 23, Phamenoth […]

The sender is identified as a prefect of Egypt only by the catalogue description; the first column is very fragmentary. The regnal year's emperor is not named in the surviving text.

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

bgu.4.1086

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

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