One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20410
Letter on the arrangements for the prefect's assize tour TM 20410Oxyrhynchosca. 50
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Fragment of a letter or official communication from Oxyrhynchus, around AD 50, setting out the arrangements for the prefect's assize (conventus) tour: hearings at Pelusium for the eastern Delta nomes, at Memphis for the Thebaid, the Heptanomia and the Arsinoite, and at Alexandria for the rest of Lower Egypt. It also mentions accounting offices, scribes and unsown land; the verso is addressed to Theon.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]
[…] … […] the accounting office […]
[…] of the assize (?) it was determined that, at the […], the prefect should make his voyage upriver and […], going to Pelusium, should hold the assize for the Tanite, Sethroite, Arabian and Augustamnic (?) nomes; likewise when at Memphis, for the Thebaid, the Seven Nomes and the Arsinoite; and the remaining nomes of the lower country at Alexandria. These things […] were determined, and for the accounting offices certain […] man by man of all the […] we request. For the rest, then, […]
… […] scribes until … […]
[…] unsown land of the … […]
[…] sent … […]
[…]
[…]
[…]
[verso]
To Theon […]
The dialogismos was the prefect's annual judicial and administrative assize (conventus) held at fixed centres. The reading of the fourth eastern district, restored as Augustamnic (Auia?), is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tour of Inspection). 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.4.709
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