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An order from the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome to the village heads and public officials of Taampemou and Seryphis. It tells them to send acacia wood cut at Eionthis to a ferry landing at once and load it onto a public boat. Written in the 3rd century AD.
Komarchs were village heads responsible to the strategos, the chief administrator of the nome. The text is on the verso of a list of landholders, and its end is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order from a Strategus to Comarchs). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
On the recto of this papyrus is part of a list of land-holders, written in the late 2nd or early 3rd century (P.Oxy. XII 1533). On the verso, written along the fibres, is a brief order from a strategos to the official of two villages, concerning the embarkation of some acacia-woo…
παρὰ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ κωμάρχαις καὶ δημοσίοις κωμῶν Τααμπέμου καὶ Σερύφεως. τὸ ξύλον τὸ ἀκάνθινον τὸ κεκομμένον ἐν τῇ Εἰόνθει ἐξαυτῆς πέμψατε εἰς τὸ[…]πορθμεῖον, καὶ ἐμβάλεσθε αὐτὸ εἰς τὸ ἐνταῦθα παρασταθὲν δημόσιον πλοῖον. […]
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