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Opening of an address to the strategos Aurelius Dionysarius TM 19271Oxyrhynchites340

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Opening of a document addressed to Aurelius Dionysarius, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, by Aurelius Hatres of the village of Sarapion Chairemonos and Horos, dated by the consulship of AD 340. The body is lost; the back carries a note naming Pansophion daughter of Dioskoros and a sum in talents.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the consulship of Septimius Acindynus, the most illustrious prefect of the sacred praetorium, and Populonius Proculus, the most illustrious. […] To Aurelius Dionysarius, strategos of the [Oxyrhynchite nome], from the Aurelii Hatres from the village of Sarapion Chairemonos and Horos […] [verso] Pansophion daughter of Dioskoros, talents … […]

Only the consular dating and the address survive, so the nature of the request or declaration is unknown. The verso note appears to be unrelated or an account entry.

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

p.oxy.59.3984

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 340 · Oxyrhynchites

[r] ὑπατείας Σεπτιμίου Ἀκινδύνου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἐπάρχου τοῦ ἱεροῦ πραιτωρίου καὶ Ποπουλωνίου Πρόκλου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου. […] Αὐρηλίῳ Διονυσαρίῳ στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Ἁτρῆ ἀπὸ κώμης Σαραπίωνος Χαιρήμονος καὶ Ὥρου[…] [v] Πανσόφιον θυγάτηρ Διοσκόρου τάλαντα … […]