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Fragment of an official letter from Oxyrhynchus addressed to Aurelius Heras, praepositus of the 8th pagus. It passes on an order of Aurelius Gregorius, procurator of the Heptanomia, that large stocks of annona grain be stored at the riverside harbours so that arriving ships can be loaded without delay for transport to Alexandria.
The annona was the state levy in kind, here grain shipped to Alexandria. The sender's name and the end of the letter are lost, and the pagus number is restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Letter to a Praepositus Pagi). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] Αὐρηλίῳ Ἡρᾷ πραιποσίτῳ η πάγου τῷ φιλτά τῳ χαίρειν. διʼ ὧν εἰς καινὸν ἡμῖν ἔγραψεν ἡ ἐμμέλεια τοῦ κυρίου μου ἐπιτρόπου τῆς Ἑπτανομίας Αὐρηλίου Γρηγορίου ἐκέλευσεν πλείστας ἀννώνας ἀποτεθῆναι ἐν τοῖς ἐπινείοις ὅρμοις πρὸς τὸ τῶν πλοίων προσορμησάντων μηδεμίαν ἐπ…
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