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Fragment of an official inspection report from Roman or Byzantine Egypt. Inspectors who visited a small house north of someone's house state that it is very old, partly collapsed and in danger of falling, and must be demolished to its foundations.
The opening lines, with the names of the inspectors and of the person who requested the inspection, are lost. The verb translated 'report' (prosphonein) is the standard term for official reports of inspectors or public experts.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rapporto di un sopralluogo). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] επ[…]σα[…]οπ[…]νθωκ…οσιωρ… ὥστε […]……[…]ἐκ βορρᾶ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ …ει…των…ηροι…θε[…]ιμο[…] το α…ει[…]που ἑτέραν μικρὰν οἰκίαν καὶ ἐγγράφως προσφωνῆσαι …της διάθεσιν· ὅθεν ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτοψίαν παραγενόμενοι ἐπεθεωρήσαμεν τὴν αὐτὴν μικρὰν οἰκίαν πάνυ πεπαλαιῶσθαι καὶ…
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