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An official letter from the eirenarchs (police officials) of the Arsinoite nome to their counterparts in the Neilopolite nome. A grey she-ass requisitioned at Philadelphia had been driven off by men from the Neilopolite nome, and the recipients are asked to find the man and return the animal to the public servant and the owner, taking a receipt. It is dated 14 June 261.
Eirenarchs were local officials responsible for public order; requisition (angareia) was compulsory service of animals or people for official transport. The date uses the regnal years of the usurpers Macrianus and Quietus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Schreiben von Gau - Eirenarchen, die Rückgabe einer irrtümlich abtransportierten Eselin betreffend). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
εἰρήναρχοι Ἀρσινοείτου εἰρηνάρχαις Νειλοπολείτου τοῖς φιλτάτοις χαίρειν. ὄνος θήλεια μυόχρους ἀγγαρευθεῖσα εἰς τὸν ἡμέτερον νομὸν ἐν κώμῃ Φιλαδελφείᾳ συνηλάσθη τισὶν καὶ αὐτοῖς ἀγγαρευθεῖσει τοῦ ὑμῶν νομοῦ. φροντίσατε οὖν, ἀδελφοί, τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἀναζητήσαντες τὴν ὄνον παραδοῦναι τ…
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