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Minutes of the Oxyrhynchus town council TM 22453Oxyrhynchos201 - 202 (?)

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Fragmentary minutes of a meeting of the town council of Oxyrhynchus in the tenth year of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (about AD 201-202). The record mentions the imperial family, the prefect Maecius Laetus and the epistrategos, and reports statements by the prytanis (council president) and acclamations by the councillors.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] ... [...] In the tenth year of the Emperors Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, ⟦and Publius Septimius Geta⟧ ⟦Caesar Augustus⟧ [...] 16, a council being in session and the ... [...] and the invincible Emperors Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, ⟦and Publius Septimius Geta, the⟧ ⟦most sacred Caesar Augustus⟧ and Julia Domna Augusta, mother of the camps [...] ⟦and Fulvia⟧ ⟦Plautilla Augusta and Fulvius Plautianus, the most eminent prefect of the praetorian guard⟧ [...] [...] and Maecius Laetus the most eminent prefect and ... [...] the most excellent epistrategos. I have read it. The prytanis said: The most excellent epistrategos, in response to what was written [...] [...] to us, wrote back [...] of the gymnasiarchs and [...] The councillors cried out: Good fortune to the procurator [...] The prytanis said: The most eminent prefect [...] ordering that there be brought [...] Augusta, who is [...] by the lords [...] [...] the [...] of the twelve (?) [...] will transfer and [...] 30, a council being in session and [...] [...]

The names of Geta, Plautilla and Plautianus were deliberately erased, reflecting their later disgrace and condemnation of memory. The numbers 16 and 30 at the start of lines are probably day dates of separate council sessions.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Senatorial Proceedings). 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.47.3340

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 201 - 202 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

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