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Letter between royal scribes about the registration of a slave bought in the Oasis TM 22535Oxyrhynchos158 - 159

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Copy of an official letter from Neilos alias Theon, royal scribe of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Pompyllius Eudaimon, royal scribe of the Theban Oasis, concerning a seven-year-old slave Epaphroditos registered by Theagenes alias Ladikenos of Oxyrhynchus. The letter recites the chain of earlier sales of the slave in the Oasis, apparently to verify them; it dates to AD 158-159.

In English machine translation

Copy. Neilos also called Theon, royal scribe of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Pompyllius Eudaimon, royal scribe of the Theban Oasis, his dearest, greetings. Theagenes also called Ladikenos, son of Theagenes, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, submitted to me a petition stating that he had registered with the scribe of the metropolis here the slave Epaphroditos, who in the present 22nd year is 7 years old, whom he says he bought by a deed through the record office (agoranomeion) here in Phamenoth of the past 21st year from […] son of Psenanoubis son of Path[…], his mother being Tanaabinis, from […] of the Small Oasis; the slave having also been bought by him by a deed through the record office of Trimeithis in the Oasis under your authority in Mecheir of the past 21st year from Psenobastis son of Tithoes son of Psen[…], his mother being Tsenesis, from the same Trimeithis; and having been bought also by him by a private contract in the 16th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord […] […]

The royal scribe (basilikos grammateus) was a senior nome official; the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius corresponds to AD 158/159. The end of the letter, presumably stating its request, is 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 158 - 159 · Oxyrhynchos

ἀντίγραφον. Νεῖλος ὁ καὶ Θέων βασιλικὸς γραμματεὺς Ὀξυρυγχίτου Πομπυλλίῳ Εὐδαίμονι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ὀάσεως Θηβαΐδος τῶι φιλτάτωι χαίρειν. Θεαγένης ὁ καὶ Λαδικηνὸς Θεαγένους ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἐπέδωκέ μοι βιβλίδιον δηλῶν ἀπὸγεγράφθαι αὐτὸν παρὰ τῷ τῆς μητροπόλεως τῶν ἐνθάδε γρ…