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Memorandum to stationarii concerning an order of the Augustal prefect TM 22145Oxyrhynchos

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A fragmentary memorandum addressed to Titus, Paulus and another stationarius (police or post officials) of the Oxyrhynchite nome by a resident of Oxyrhynchus. It refers to an order of the Augustal prefect Flavius Quintillius Hypatius summoning certain officials to the great court, and the writer lodges the document for his own security. It is dated Epeiph 29 in the year after the consulship of Antonius and Syagrius (AD 383).

In English machine translation

After the consulship of Flavii Antonius and Syagrius, the most illustrious, Epeiph 29. To […] and Titus and Paulus, stationarii of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from […] of the same city. It is not out of place […] […] and this […] [… lines lost …] […] […] order of the authority of my lord the most magnificent Augustal prefect Flavius Quintillius Hypatius […] those attending the side-courts (?) […] to appear at the great court […] brought against them. Since therefore in the […] of the attendance […] […] and Phoibadios, acting as guardians (?) […] for this reason I submit this document […] security, so that at the proper time […] […]

Stationarii were imperial police and post officials stationed in the nome. The date is derived from the post-consular formula for the consuls of AD 382.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memorandum to Stationarii). 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.oxy.63.4382

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

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