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p.col.8.242 VArsinoites
Letter [V AD] via APIS-papyrus
Letter to a superior complaining of an attack during tax collection near Karanis. A fragmentary letter to a superior from the Arsinoite nome, 5th century AD, complaining about a man connected with Karanis who threatened the writer during the collection of small-change cash taxes and plotted against the eirenarch (local police official). The writer reports that officials are now afraid to act. machine translation
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TM 35093.
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- Letter [V AD] APIS-papyrus Arsinoites400 CE – 499 CE
- Letter HGV-meta ArsinoitesV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
παρὰ
καὶ πρίν με γράψαι οὐκ ἀγνοήσει ἡ σὴ θαυμασιότης ὡς ὅτι οὐκ ᾐτήθη ἀπὸ Καρανίδος πρὸς τὸ οἰκίσαι
αὐτὸν τὴν κώμην οὔτε μὴν …[…]…εσαι τῷ Βασιλεῖ. καὶ γὰρ ἐν τῇ ἐχθὲς ῥιφθείς μοι η…[…]…[…]
παρὰ τῷ κεφαλαιωτῇ πρὸς μεθοδίαν φανεροῦ κέρματος τοῦτον ζητήσας μεθοδεῦσαι
περιερρόγχασέν μοι καὶ ἐβουλήθη μοι ἐπελθεῖν ……………δ… τὸν εἰρήναρχον καὶ τὸν ἄλλον
λειτουργὸν τοῦτον ἐδυνήθην μεθοδεῦσαι τοῦ κυδαδιτινος ἕνεκεν. ὁ αὐτὸς ἐκεῖνος
συνάξας αὐτοῦ τοὺς διαφέροντας κάθισμα ἐποίησεν τῷ εἰρηνάρχῳ τοῦτον μέλλων
ἀνελεῖν πρὸς τὸ τούτου γιγνομένου τοῦ λοιποῦ μήτεμερισμὸν μήτε ἄλλο τι
ἀπόκρισιν αὐτοὺς ποιεῖν· καὶ γὰρ ἐν τῇ σήμερον οὔτʼ εἰρήναρχος οὔτε ἄλλος τις ἦλθεπρός με διʼ ὃ
ἐπάθομεν τῇ ἐχθὲς ἀλλὰ ἁπλῶς οὕτω καθιζόμεθα μηδὲν πόλεμον ποιοῦντες.Translations (1)
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Even before I write, your Admirableness will not be unaware that he was not requested by Karanis to settle the village, nor indeed […] to the Basileus (?). For indeed yesterday, when I was thrown […] with the head-collector (kephalaiotes) for the collection of cash in small change, having sought to collect it from this man, he snorted at me and wanted to attack me […] the eirenarch and the other liturgist; I was able to collect from this man for the sake of the [...] (?). That same man, having gathered his associates, set an ambush (?) for the eirenarch, intending to do away with him, so that, this happening, they would in future make neither apportionment nor any other response. And indeed today neither the eirenarch nor anyone else came to me because of what we suffered yesterday, but we simply sit thus, making no war.
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Arsinoite nome
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 35093 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.col;8;242 tier-1
- HGV-Text 35093 tier-1
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