Official instruction to post a public notice in every village TM 78016Ptolemais Hormou (?), Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, EgyptIIIrd century B.C.

The end of an official memorandum of the 3rd century BC, probably from the Arsinoite nome, in which a higher official instructs a subordinate to post a public notice (programma) following the guidelines of an attached document. A copy of the notice was also to be posted in every village so that those concerned would pay what they owed.

In English machine translation

A programma was a public notice or placard issued by officials. The names of sender and addressee are lost; only the end of the memorandum survives, followed by blank space.

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