G 60291 recto: For the dimensions of the 27 individual fragments, see CPR XXVIII p. 198. Date: late II – mid-I century BC. Provenance unknown. These papyrus fragments preserve some of the text of one or more royal prostagmata from late Ptolemaic Egypt. Because of the highly fragmentary state of preservation of this document, very little text survives and its exact date is uncertain. Consequently, the precise content of this document, beyond the fact that it preserves parts of one or, possibly, more than one royal prostagma, is difficult to gauge. Its main interest, therefore, lies in the general importance of its genre, rather than in any specific information supplied by it. The significance of this text is increased by the fact that this type of document is very rare. An additional interest of this document lies in the possibility that it dates from the reign of Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII, which is favoured by the paleography. Although the text shows many similarities to and parallels with a number of other Ptolemaic royal ordinances, it has nevertheless no close or direct parallel in the corpus of such texts published to date. Since the prostagma (or at least one of a number) begins with a section concerning those who have fled (anakechorekotas), it is most probably to be interpreted as an amnesty decree, which aligns it with those royal indulgences dealing with the problem of anachoresis. The papyrus was published by C. A. La’da as CPR XXVIII 14.