Fragment of a response to a petition concerning sales and archives TM 27305Ptolemais Euergetis ? (Arsinoites, Ägypten)Ende II - Anfang III

Fragment of an official text, catalogued as a response to a petition, mentioning 1,000 silver drachmas, a priest, the prytaneion and a request that instructions be sent to archive officials and those conducting sales. It refers to an official who was priest, exegetes and archiprytanis, and probably comes from Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoite nome), late 2nd to early 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

The exegetes and archiprytanis (president of the city council) were senior municipal magistrates of a metropolis. The provenance 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 Réponse à une pétition). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.