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Private letter
Description
This papyrus is a letter about problems between various tax-collectors concerning the quantity of grain received by them, and its shipment. Also a landowner is involved and forced by threat of being poisoned to do what other desire from him.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
Translations (1)
(Translation: P. L. Bat. 25.69) [...] in order that also the part should be shipped by us instead of by you, and he said [... that the other(?)] tax-collectors shipped (the grain) among the first and if I need more grain in order that [...] and at the request he went down (to the ship?) and said that, what he wanted [... we shipped] among the first our grain, before the other tax-collectors [...] the landowner was drugged in order that he should accept more [...] sail on the tenth day to the estate and I hope that not [...] the month passed. [...] He showed us ... [...] ... and if he had not communicated to me about ... [...] ... and I received the grain ... more than the other tax-collectors ... [...] ... and in order that not be collected ... [...] ... the twentieth. However, from the first hour ... [...] ... there in order that ... he spends time (?) for you on the grain ...
Cross-references (4)
- TM-Text 35180 primary
- APIS-Text leidenpapinst.apis.p0071 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.leid.inst;1;69 tier-1
- HGV-Text 35180 tier-1
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