Fragmentary Roman-style document drawn up in Alexandria under Severus Alexander, involving Aurelius Areios, Marcus Aurelius Ammonios and Marcus Ulpius Marcianus. It mentions Aphrodite also called Kleopatra, a small one-storey house, arouras of grain land and twenty liturgical days, apparently property or obligations connected with a cult.
In English machine translation
[…] Marcus […]
[…] of Aurelius Areios, and however he is styled […]
[…] in Alexandria by Egypt, on the […] day before […]
[…] of Imperator Caesar Marcus […]
[…] Aphrodite and […]
[…] Augusta […]
[…] Kalends of May, at the hour […]
[…] Marcus Aurelius Ammonios […]
[…] Marcus Ulpius Marcianus […]
[…] of Aphrodite also called Kleopatra […]
[…] the (?) according to the Romans' […]
[…] (?). It is as follows:
[…] in Episemos Lyra (?) a small one-storey house […]
[…] (?) arouras of grain land […]
[…] of liturgical days, twenty days […]
[…] through Marcus Aurelius […]
[…] of Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander […]
The reference to Aphrodite also called Kleopatra has been taken to show a surviving cult of a Kleopatra in the 3rd century AD. The phrase rendered 'Episemos Lyra' appears to be a place or district name and is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kult einer Kleopatra in der Zeit des Severus Alexander). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.