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Order to decaproti to load wheat onto a public boat TM 19267Oxyrhynchos300 - 302

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An order from Aurelius Alexandros, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to the decaproti of the lower toparchy, instructing them, on the authority of the catholicus Valerius Evethius, to load a quantity of pure wheat onto a public boat named Panantinoos under the shipmaster Honoratianus. It dates to AD 300-302 from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Alexandros, former hypomnematographos, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Aurelii Alexandros and Stratonikos and their associates, decaproti of the lower toparchy, his dearest friends, greetings. In accordance with what has been written by my lord the most eminent catholicus Valerius Evethius, load into the public boat whose emblem is Panantinoos, of a capacity of 2,500 artabas, under Honoratianus the shipmaster, wheat that is most pure and free of all defect, by the public measure and with the prescribed measuring, artabas one thousand […]-six […] and for the hundredths […] 1,900 (?) artabas […]

Decaproti were local officials responsible for collecting grain taxes; the catholicus was the chief financial official of Egypt. The exact amount of wheat is partly lost, and the text breaks off.

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

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p.oxy.59.3980

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 300 - 302 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρήλιος Ἀλέξανδρος γενόμενος ὑπομνηματογράφος στρατηγὸς Ὀξυρυγχίτου Αὐρηλίοις Ἀλεξάνδρῳ καὶ Στρατονίκῳ καὶ τοῖς κοινωνοῖς, δεκαπρώτοις μερῶν κάτω τοπαρχίας τοῖς φιλτάτοις χαίρειν. ἀκολούθως τοῖς γραφεῖσι ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου μου διασημοτάτου καθολικοῦ Οὐαλερίου Εὐηθίου ἐμβάλεσθε εἰς π…