Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 658

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 658 is one of four examples of libelli found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The last lines of the manuscript declare the date — the first year of the emperor Decius, whose full name was Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius.

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Original lines are retained.
Text in brackets| is reconstructed to fill a gap in the papyrus.
Full stops in brackets represent character spaces that cannot be reconstructed.
Text in is full spelling of an abbreviation.
Letters with _subscript dots are incomplete or indistinct.