Fragment of a document addressed to the epistrategos, a senior Roman regional official in Egypt, apparently named Claudius Xenophon. The surviving words mention an Artemidoros, a strategos, and the gymnasiarchy (a costly civic office) held by someone's brother.
In English machine translation
[…] to the most excellent epistrategos Ou[…]
[…] Claudius Xenophon […]
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[…] instead of (?) Artemidoros […]
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[…] strategos (?) […]
[…] to […] of the […]
[…] gymnasiarchy of (my?) brother […]
[…] in office (?) […]
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The mention of a gymnasiarchy and an official in office suggests a petition or application concerning a liturgy, but too little survives to be sure. The gymnasiarch was the magistrate in charge of the town gymnasium, an expensive compulsory office.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Document adressé à l’épistratège). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.