Copies of official letters from Claudius Julianus, prefect of Egypt, to the strategoi of the Prosopite and Oxyrhynchite nomes, forwarding petitions and ordering that any sums owed from his term be handled according to a rule laid down by his predecessor Maecius Laetus. The letters are dated Pachon 11 under Septimius Severus and Caracalla, probably AD 204, and the papyrus comes from Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
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[Claudius] Julianus to Horion, strategos of the Pros[opite nome], [greetings].
[I have sent] you [the copy] of the petitions given to me by […], and if there is owed to them from my time […] see to [it] according to the rule laid down […] by the most eminent Maecius Laetus […] and that this be done cleanly (?) […] to the deceased. I wish you good health […]
[Year …] of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius P[ertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoni]nus Pius, Augusti, Pachon 11.
[…] it will be written to the strategos […] […] and by Claudius Julianus conc[erning] […]
[Claudiu]s Julianus to Androsthenes, strat[egos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, greetings.]
[I have sent] you [the cop]y of the petitions given to me [by] […], and if there is owed to them from [my time] […] see to it according to the ru[le laid down] […]
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The number 26 at the top suggests the sheet was part of a numbered file of copied documents. The year number is lost, so the date is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Correspondence). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.