Address
Draft of theginning of a letter or document addressed to Lucius Septimius Aurelius Poseidonios, an eminent Alexandrian
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Address to Lucius Septimius Aurelius Posidonios, former Alexandrian magistrate TM 42507UnknownIIIrd century A.D.
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A draft address for a letter or document directed to Lucius Septimius Aurelius Posidonios, a prominent Alexandrian who had held several civic magistracies and the post of hypomnematographos. It was written on an ostracon in the 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
To Lucius Septimius Aurelius Posidonios, former euthenarch and former agoranomos and former exegetes, who has been hypomnematographos of the most splendid city of the Alexandrians, and however he is styled.
The euthenarch oversaw the food supply, the agoranomos supervised the market and registered contracts, the exegetes was a senior civic magistrate, and the hypomnematographos was a high Alexandrian official; these Greek titles have no exact English equivalents. The phrase "and however he is styled" is a standard formula covering any further titles of the addressee.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Address). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.1.94
Λουκίῳ Σεπτιμίῳ Αὐρηλίῳ Ποσιδωνίῳ εὐθηνιαρχήσαντι καὶ ἀγορανομήσαντι καὶ ἐξηγητεύσαντι γενομένῳ ὑπομνηματογράφῳ τῆς λαμπροτάτης πόλεως τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει.