p.oxy.47.3349
Δειδίωι Βαλβείνωι […] παρὰ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἰο[…] κιαρίων …[…]ησο[…]…αν…[…] ματος εξα…[…]…μπ…τ…[…] ἔτους […] Μεχεὶρ ιδ […] […]τυγχαν[…] ε[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22464
Communication from Marcus Aurelius Io[…] to the epistrategos Didius Balbinus TM 22464Oxyrhynchitesca. 229
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Fragmentary opening of a document addressed to Didius Balbinus, probably an epistrategos, by a Marcus Aurelius Io[…]. It mentions a date in the month Mecheir; the substance is lost. It comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome, around AD 229.
In English machine translation
To Didius Balbinus […]
from Marcus Aurelius Io[…]
[…] …[…]
[…] …[…]
Year […], Mecheir 14 […]
[…] being (?) […]
[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
The identification of the addressee as an epistrategos (governor of a group of nomes) comes from the catalogue title, not from the surviving text. Lines 3-4 are too damaged to translate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Communication to an Epistrategus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.