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Order to supply a camel-driver for camels sent to the palace at Memphis TM 22512Oxyrhynchos17. Apr. 309

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An official letter from Aurelius Didymos, a legal officer (nomikarios) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Aurelius Didymos, praepositus of the 8th pagus, instructing him to have the village of Teis provide a camel-driver for camels being sent to the imperial palace at Memphis. It is dated 17 April 309, at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Didymos son of Didymos, praepositus of the 8th pagus, Aurelius Didymos, nomikarios of the nome, greetings. Since camel-drivers are being sought for camels being dispatched to the sacred palace in the city of the Memphites, I necessarily write to you, dearest friend, so that you may have the people from the village of Teis supply a camel-driver in their turn (?). In the consulship of our masters Valerius Licinianus Licinius Augustus and Flavius Valerius Constantinus, son of the emperors, on the 15th day before the Kalends of May. I, Aurelius Didymos, nomikarios of the nome, have submitted this.

A nomikarios was a legal clerk or official; a praepositus pagi administered one of the districts (pagi) of the nome. The phrase kata stoichon suggests the villagers were to provide the driver by rotation.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 17. Apr. 309 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρηλίῳ Διδύμῳ Διδύμου πραιποσίτῳ η πάγου Αὐρήλιος Δίδυμος νομικάριος νομοῦ χαίρειν. καμηλατῶν ζητουμένων καμήλων ἀποστελλομένων ἐπὶ τὸ ἐν τῇ Μεμφιτῶν πόλει ἱερὸν παλάτιον, ἀναγκαίως ἐπιστέλλω σοι, φίλτατε, ὅπως τοὺς ἀπὸ κώμης Τήεως κατὰ στοῖχον παρασχεῖν καμηλάτην ποιήσῃς. ὑπατε…