Letter of Augustus to the Alexandrians and proceedings of their embassy TM 25077unbekanntfrühes I

Fragments of a letter of the emperor Augustus to the people of Alexandria, acknowledging an Alexandrian embassy that came to him in Gaul, followed by part of the proceedings of that embassy. In the proceedings the exegetes addresses Caesar and explains how the envoys divided their tasks, one speaking for Egypt, one for the Idios Logos (special account), and the speaker for the city.

In English machine translation

The titulature (tribunician power 14, imperator 12) points to 10/9 BC, when Augustus was in Gaul, though the manuscript copy itself is dated to the early 1st century AD. The exegetes was a leading civic magistrate of Alexandria; the Idios Logos was the office administering special revenues of Egypt.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Augustus and Proceedings of Embassy). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.