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A public notice from Septimius Horion alias Diogenes, a former gymnasiarch, Appianus alias Severus and their fellow magistrates, who had run the grain distribution at Oxyrhynchus. Now that their term is over and successors have been appointed by the council, they remind holders of distribution tablets who have not yet collected their wheat to present them and receive it. The text dates to the 3rd century AD.
The 'tablets' (tabla, from Latin tabula) were tokens or tickets entitling registered citizens to a share in the public grain dole. The conditions for collecting the grain are lost in the damaged final lines.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Public Notice?). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
παρὰ Σεπτιμίου Ὡρίωνος τοῦ καὶ Διογένους γυμνασιαρχήσαντος καὶ Ἀππιανοῦ τοῦ καὶ Σεουήρου καὶ τῶν σὺν αὐτοῖς ἀρχόντων. διʼ αὐτῶν ἡμῶν τὸν χρόνον τῆς διαδόσεως ἀποπεπληρωκότων καὶ ἑτέρων προχειρισθέντων ἐν τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ, ἀναγκαῖον ἐνομίσαμεν ὑπομνῆσαι τοὺς παρʼ ἡμῶν τάβλας μὲν …
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