Letter of the procurator of the res privata about a lease offer by a priest of Ammon TM 19254Thebais301 - 302

Official letter from the procurator of the imperial private estate (res privata) in the Thebaid to a nome strategos about an offer to lease property submitted by a priest of Ammon. The property had formerly belonged to a private person, apparently [...]axagoras, and now belonged to the imperial treasury. The strategos is told to have it inspected and to act without prejudice to the treasury, in AD 301-302.

In English machine translation

"Privata" refers to the res privata, the emperor's private estate administration. The nome name survives only as "-apolite", perhaps Diospolite or Latopolite.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as P.Lond. 1271). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.