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Letter of the prefect Flavius Philagrius on a shortfall of craftsmen TM 22518Oxyrhynchos340

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An official letter from Flavius Philagrius, prefect of Egypt, to the civic officials of Oxyrhynchus, reporting that Silvanus found a shortfall of two craftsmen sent in each rotation to the praetorian prefects and ordering payment of a money equivalent. It was issued at Alexandria on 1 August, AD 340.

In English machine translation

[recto, centre] Through Sarapion, officialis, Mesore […] Flavius Philagrius to the logistes and syndikos [and exactor and] episkopos and the leading councillors of the Oxyrhynchites, [greetings.] The most perfect Silvanus, examining the account of the canon […] that two craftsmen fewer had been sent in each turn of service […] to the unsurpassable authority of my lords [the most illustrious] prefects, and having calculated […] sixty, he informed (us) that each […] -ty-six, so that there is collected […] sixty, this money to [the unsurpassable authority of my lords] the most illustrious prefects […] this very thing to be made known. Take care […] in each turn of service […] seven hundred and sixty […] knowing that if this […] not […] […] [recto, margin] Given on the Kalends of August at Alexandria. [verso] To the logistes and syndikos and exactor and episkopos and leading councillors of the Oxyrhynchite.

The dating subscription is in Latin, the body in Greek. 'Diadoche' here means a rotating shift of craftsmen sent for service; the exact sums are lost.”

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.

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p.oxy.55.3794

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 340 · Oxyrhynchos

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