This contribution gives the edition of the drafts of a proposal for an imperial rescript that four Egyptians subjected in 551 in Constantinople to the imperial administration in the frame of the rescript procedure to help it to establish the definitive rescript. We are fortunate to have almost three versions of the same text (P.Cair.Masp. I 67024 front and back and 67025), written by two different persons, one Egyptian, the other Constantinopolitan. The study of the differences between these versions makes us enter the process of drafting and allows us to apprehend very concretely, through the writings, the lexicon and the wording, the cultural profile of both of them.