Minutes of a council session on a shortfall and unpaid contributions TM 31243HerakleopolisIII (?)

Fragment of the minutes of a town council meeting, probably at Herakleopolis in the 3rd century AD. After a communication from the dioiketes Aurelius is read out, the council demands that those who have not paid be pressed for payment because of a shortfall, and asks that the strategos be informed; the prytanis promises the minutes will be published.

In English machine translation

The prytanis was the president of the city council (boule); the dioiketes was a senior financial official. The 'deficit in our number' may refer to a shortfall in a required quota of payments or persons.

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