Fragments of a report of legal proceedings from Oxyrhynchus, early 3rd century AD. Someone from Oxyrhynchus reported that Athenodoros son of Athenodoros, formerly secretary to the freedman Primus, was involved in a tax collection in the Seven Nomes, the Arsinoite and the Oasis; officials named Sabinus and Severus, a royal scribe and a centurion of the Oasis appear.
In English machine translation
[Fragment A]
[…] of the city of the Oxyrhynchi reported that Athenodoros son of Athenodoros […]
[of the city of the Oxyrhynchi], formerly secretary of Primus, freedman […]
[…] who was epistrategos of the Seven Nomes and the Arsinoite and the Oasis, the collection […]
[…] of poll-taxes (?) in the same nomes, and that Sabinus […]
[…] of Athenodoros before Severus as […]
[…] to have obeyed, and that Severus […]
[…] to sell them […]
[…] freedman, donkey-driver […]
[…] of the Oasis […]
[…] and to his relative […]
[…] to Primus, of the […]
[…] royal scribe […]
[…] and of Claudius […]
[…] S[…]
[… lines lost …]
[Fragment B]
[… lines lost …]
[…]
[…]
[…] to the centurion of this [Oasis] […]
[…] to be summoned […]
[…] own […]
[…] of the Oxyrhynchi […]
[…] fruit (?) […]
[…] examination […]
[…] before the […]
[…] by a judgment […]
[… lines lost …]
The epistrategos was the senior regional governor over the Seven Nomes and the Arsinoite (Heptanomia), here also including the Oasis. The restoration 'poll-taxes' (epikephalaia) is partly supplied.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of legal proceedings). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.