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Opening of an official notice from Aurelius Diogenes, riparius (police official) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to the heirs of Isak and his wife. He forwards to them a copy of a document sent to him by the prefect of Egypt, Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus, issued in response to a petition. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in spring AD 369.
A riparius was a late Roman local police official responsible for public order and for serving summonses. The text breaks off before the content of the prefect's document is given.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Communication from a Riparius). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου υἱοῦ τοῦ θειοτάτου δεσπότου ἡμῶν Οὐάλεντος Αὐγούστου καὶ Φλαουΐου Οὐΐκτωρος τοῦ λαμπροτάτου στρατηλάτου Φαρμοῦθι[…]. Αὐρήλιος Διογένης ῥιπάριος Ὀξυρυγχίτου κληρονόμοις Ἰσὰκ καὶ τῇ γυναικὶ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. ἴσον τοῦ ἐπενεχθέντο…
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