Writing practice: repeated heading of a declaration to Arsinoite officials TM 9870Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

A writing exercise from Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites) that repeats, at least three times, the opening address of an official declaration from Herakleides son of Sarapion. It is addressed to the strategos Archias, the royal scribe Herminos, the city scribes Herodes and Maron, and the quarter official Sarapion.

In English machine translation

The heading resembles that of a census or registration return, copied repeatedly as practice. An amphodarch was the official in charge of a city quarter (amphodon); the scribe deleted the name of the Bithynians' quarter.

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