A report from Aurelius Eudaimon alias Helladios and his fellow keepers of the property records at Oxyrhynchus to the city's prytanis and syndics. Asked to locate the property of Theothoros, an officer of the Third Legion whose estate was to be confiscated for the treasury, they state that the records show he owned nothing registered in the nome. Dated 2 July 309.
In English machine translation
To the Aurelii […] also called Serenos, prytanis in office, and Ammoninos […] son of Agathinos, both syndics, councillors of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites,
from the Aurelii Eudaimon also called Helladios, former gymnasiarch, councillor of the same city, and my fellow keepers of the records of the same nome, to their dearest friends, greetings.
You have written to us that Valerius Asterius, procurator of the res privata of Egypt, has ordered that the property of Theothoros, exarch of the promoti of the Third Legion, who was condemned (?) by a sentence of his excellency the dux, be claimed for the accounts of the treasury. Therefore, having proceeded to an examination by means of the books deposited in the record offices, we declare that Theothoros owns no […] nor has any property at all been registered to him in the books in the archives.
We pray for your health, dearest friends.
In the consulship of our lords Valerius Licinianus Licinius Augustus and Flavius Valerius Constantinus […], 6th day before the Nones of July.
[…]
The bibliophylakes enkteseon kept the register of landed property. The promoti were an elite cavalry unit; 'exarch' denotes its commander.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Auskunftserteilung durch die βιβλιοφύλακες ἐγκτήσεων über das Vermögen eines Inquisiten). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.