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Aurelia Marciane, a woman from Side in Pamphylia, petitions the prefect of Egypt, Valerius Firmus, for permission to leave Egypt by sea through the harbour of Pharos at Alexandria. Beneath her Greek request is the prefect's Latin order to Asclepiades, apparently the procurator of Pharos, to let her depart. The papyrus was found at Oxyrhynchus and dates to AD 246.
Leaving Egypt required an official exit permit issued through the procurator of the Pharos harbour. The Latin subscription is dated 15 September (17th day before the Kalends of October), later than the Greek petition dated 29 August (1st epagomenal day of year 3); the catalogue date of 24 August does not match either.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to the Prefect). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Οὐαλερίῳ Φίρμῳ ἐπάρχῳ Αἰγύπτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Μαρκιανῆς Σιδήτιδος βούλομαι κύριε ἐκπλεῦσαι διὰ Φάρου. ἀξιῶ γράψαι σε τῷ ἐπιτρόπῳ τῆς Φάρου ἀπολῦσαί με κατὰ τὸ ἔθος γ ἔτους ἐπαγομένων α διευτύχει Valerius Firmus Asclepiade salutem dimitti iussi de Pharo commendo tibi vale iussi dat…
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