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Priests submit a copy of their petition to the prefect to the logistes of Oxyrhynchus TM 219244Oxyrhynchosca. 325

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Two priests of Oxyrhynchus, the brothers Aurelius Pausirion and Aurelius Didymos, sons of Onnophris, submit to the city's logistes Flavius Dionysios alias Apollonios a copy of a petition they had addressed to the prefect of Egypt, Flavius Magnus, asking that the appropriate follow-up action be taken. It dates to about AD 325 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

To Flavius Dionysios also called Apollonios, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Pausirion and Aurelius Didymos, both sons of Onnophris, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, priests. A copy of the petition which we made to our lord Flavius Magnus, the most eminent prefect of […] Egypt, and … […] … we submit to you, asking that the consequent measures be taken … [… 1 line lost …]

The logistes (curator civitatis) was the chief financial and administrative official of a city in this period. The text breaks off before the copy of the petition itself, so its subject is unknown.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration to the logistes of Oxyrhynchos). 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.monts.roca.4.69

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 325 · Oxyrhynchos

Φλαυίωι Διονυσίωι τῷ καὶ Ἀπολλωνίῳ λογιστῇ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Παυσιρίωνος καὶ Διδύμου ἀμφοτέρων Ὀννώφριος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως, ἱερέων. ἶσον ἧς πεποιήμεθα ἐντυχίας παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Φλαυίῳ Μάγνῳ τῷ διασημοτάτῳ ἐπάρχῳ […] Αἰγύπτου καὶ … […]μεν … ἐπ…