Letter of Qurra ibn Sharik to Basileios on fugitives in Middle Egypt TM 19837Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)708 - 710

Fragmentary letter from the Arab governor of Egypt, Qurra ibn Sharik, to Basileios, administrator of Aphrodito, about fugitives from his district found in the Arsinoite, Herakleopolite and Oxyrhynchite nomes under the official al-Mughira son of Salama. Basileios is to appoint two men to collect the fugitives, register them and see to the costs of returning them to their own places.

In English machine translation

The governor's name and the addressee in the first lines are restored from the standard formula of this archive. The term symboulos, literally 'counsellor', is the Greek title for the Arab governor of Egypt.

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