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p.col.4.87 Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)

Draft of Letters from the Bureau of Eukles via HGV-meta

Draft letter to Eukles on grain accounts, rebates to farmers and Syrian slaves. Draft of a letter to Eukles from Apollonios, his secretary, concerning the grain accounts for the year 3 lease and rebates granted to farmers, which left some, such as Aristandros, having overpaid. He asks that someone be sent to settle the individual accounts and mentions Syrian slaves listed in the account of workers. Probably from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, about 244 BC. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Εὐκλεῖ. τὸν σιτικὸν λόγον τῆς μισθώσεως τοῦ γ ἔτους συνθέντες ἐκ τοῦ κουφισμοῦ κατὰ τὴν γενομένην ἐν Μέμφει σύνκρισιν εὑρίσκομεν ὑπερμετρουμένας εἰς πυρὸν ἀρτάβας το… Δυλ καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν τῆς τιμῆς τῆς ασ…μ…του ὑπάρχον ἐπὶ τῆι τραπέζηι …ρ……της τιμῆς τῶν Β τῶν μεμετρημένων, τὸ πᾶν χαλκοῦ φ ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ κατʼ ἄνδρα τὸ αὐτὸ ἀληθῶς ὑπάρχον. ὀφείλοντος γὰρ Ἀριστάνδρου πρότερον ἐκ τῆς γεωμετρίας εἰς πυρὸν ψν, νυνὶ ὑπερμετρεῖ ἐκ τοῦ κουφισμοῦ ἀρτάβας χ. διόπερ καλῶς ποιήσεις μάλιστα μὲν ἀποστείλας Ἡρακλείδην τὸν γεωργόν, ἐάνπερ εὐκαιρῆι, εἰ δὲ μή γε, ἐντειλάσθω Ἡρακλείδηι τῶι σιτολόγωι ἢ Χαιριγένην ἀποστειλάτω ὅπως ἐὰν ἦι ἐν δυνατῶι παραιτήσηται ἁς …ο παρὸν τ…υ…η τὸν κατʼ ἄνδρα διαλογισμὸν θέσθαι ἡμᾶς ὅπως μὴ τὸ μὲν παρὰ τῶν γεωργῶν […]τὴν ὑπερμετρουμένην δῶσιν ἐν γενήματι β ἔτους ἀρεστόν. ἐὰν τεθῆι ὁ λόγος ἔτι διαφόρας διδοὺς δυσχερές. ἱεροῖς γὰρ γραμματεῦσι τούτοις τε καὶ τοῖς περὶ Ἀλέξανδρον οὐ συνήντηκα. μάλιστα μὲν γὰρ ἔδει μεθʼ ὑμῶν ἐκεῖ συντεθῆναι τοὺς σιτικοὺς λόγους ὅπως ἐάν τι βέλτιον δοκιμάζητε οὕτως ποιῶμεν. ἀλλὰ τοὺς Σύρους παῖδας οὓς γράφετε ἐν τῶι ἀπολογισμῶι τῶν σωμάτων τοὺς μέν πρὸς τοῖς ἀμπελικοῖς εἶναι, τοὺς δὲ πρὸς τῆι γεωργίαι, οὐκ οἶμαι σὲ ἀγνοεῖν διότι ἀπηγμένοι εἰσί [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
⟦Apollonios to Eukles, greetings. I have sent you⟧ ⟦the grain⟧ To Eukles. Having drawn up the grain account of the lease of year 3 on the basis of the rebate (kouphismos) according to the review held in Memphis, we find ⟦54⟧ … artabas of wheat overmeasured ⟦5⟧ ⟦and likewise also in the individual account⟧ … 434 and the remainder of the price of the … being at the bank … of the price of the 2 … measured, in all 500 drachmas of bronze ⟦of the⟧ and likewise also in the individual account the same is truly the case. For Aristandros, who formerly owed 750 (artabas) of wheat according to the survey, now overmeasures by 600 ⟦500⟧ artabas on the basis of the rebate. Therefore please, above all, send Herakleides the farmer, if he has time, but if not, let him instruct Herakleides the sitologos, or let him send Chairigenes, so that, if it is possible, he may obtain a release from … to make the individual settlement of accounts for us, so that not ⟦the and …⟧ the (amount) from the farmers […][the] overmeasured (amount) they may give in produce of year 2, acceptable. If the account is drawn up still giving differences, it is troublesome. For I have not met with these sacred scribes nor with Alexander's people. For above all the grain accounts ought to have been drawn up there with you, so that if you judge anything better, we may do so. But as for the Syrian slaves whom you record in the account of the bodies, some as being in the vineyard work and others in agriculture, I do not think you are unaware that they have been led away […] […]

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