A fragmentary official letter from the strategos Calpurnius Artemidoros alias Ptolemaios and the royal scribe Domitius Apollonios to a former gymnasiarch, forwarding a matter raised by the nome's eklogistes about unexamined administrative accounts, apparently involving the deceased Sarapion son of Herodes. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 30 July 163 and was followed by a copied extract from earlier records.
In English machine translation
[…] to Calpurnius Artemidoros also called Ptolemaios […]
[…] son of […]on, the strategos […]
[…]
Calpurnius Artemidoros also called Ptolemaios, strategos, and Domitius Apollonios, royal scribe, to […], former gymnasiarch, dearest, greetings.
[…] Phokion, in unexamined categories of the administration […]
[…] by the eklogistes of the nome […]
[…] written. Therefore of the metropolis […]
[…] Sarapion son of Herodes, deceased […]
[…] to your minors (?) […] it is sent to you […]
[…] We pray for your health, dearest. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, Mesore 6. It is as follows: from year 2 […]
[…] from certain minutes of judges […]
[…] and […]
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The eklogistes was the nome's financial auditor. The opening lines seem to be a docket or covering address preceding the letter itself.
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.