Fragment of a certified copy of a petition with the subscription of Aedinius Julianus, prefect of Egypt, concerning succession to property, posted publicly in the Great Iseum at Alexandria. The petitioner was one Licinnius Sarapam[…], son of Isidoros, and the copy dates to AD 223 under Severus Alexander; it was found at Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
[…] Alexander Pius […]
[…]s Licinnius Sarapam[…], son of Isidoros, have submitted (this).
[Year …] […] By edict. I have read. Sheet […] Roll […]
[Translation of the Latin:] Concerning succession to property (?)
[…] in the consulship of [Marius Maximus and R]oscius Aelianus, 8 days before the […]
[…] Year […] of Imperator Caesar Marcus
[Aurelius Severus Al]exander Pius Felix Augustus
[…] at Alexandria by Egypt, copied [and col]lated, from the gummed-together roll [of petitions] […] of Aedinius Julianus, prefect of Egypt,
[subscribed by] him and posted on the present [day by] his [offic]ials in the Great Iseum
[…]
The Latin formulas ex edicto and legi mark the bilingual official procedure for posting prefectural rulings; the Greek is labelled a translation of the Latin. The consular date (Marius Maximus and Roscius Aelianus) corresponds to AD 223.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Proclamation and List of Emperors). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.