Fragment of an official letter ordering delivery of a register TM 3062unbekannt2. Hälfte III v.Chr.

Fragments of an official letter from Ptolemaic Egypt, second half of the 3rd century BC. The writer orders the recipients to compel a man to hand over a register (apographe) at once to the soldier carrying the letter. A docket on the back mentions the month Epeiph, and another fragment preserves the date Pachon 24.

In English machine translation

A machimos was a native Egyptian soldier of the Ptolemaic army, often used as a messenger or police agent. The apographe may be a census or property register.

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