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The end of an official letter, written in a chancery hand, instructing its recipients to elect a suitable person so that the city would not lack necessary supplies or services. It is dated 30 July AD 190, in the reign of Commodus.
Year 30 counts Commodus' regnal years from the start of Marcus Aurelius' reign, as was usual in Egypt. The plural address suggests a letter to a city council or magistrates, probably from an official.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief in Kanzleischrift). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] […]νι[…] […]ντοστουκ[…]φροντίσατε τοίνυν[…]ἐπιτήδειον χειροτονῆσαι ὡς μηδὲν τη?ͅ πόλει ἐνδεῆσαι τῶν οὕτως ἀναγκαίων. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς βούλομαι. ἔτους τριακοστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ Ἀρμενιακοῦ Μηδικοῦ …
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