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p.lond.4.1370 3. Nov. 710Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)
Fragment des Schreibens über das Manko an der Embola der 9. Indiktion via HGV-meta
Letter of the governor Kurrah ibn Sharik to Basileios about arrears in the grain tax. Official letter from the Arab governor of Egypt, Kurrah ibn Sharik, to Basileios, administrator (pagarch) of Aphrodito, ordering him to ship at once 1,300 artabas of grain still owed from the grain tax of the ninth indiction. He threatens to arrest Basileios and make him pay from his own means if even one artaba remains outstanding. machine translation
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- Fragment des Schreibens über das Manko an der Embola der 9. Indiktion HGV-meta Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)3. Nov. 710
- Fragment des Schreibens über das Manko an der Embola der 9. Indiktion HGV-meta Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)3. Nov. 710
- Beginning of P.Lond. IV 1370, a Letter Concerning a Deficit in the "embola" APIS-papyrus kome Aphrodito3 November, 710 A.D.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
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περὶ σίτου ἀρταβῶν Ατ λοιπάδος τῶν ὁρρίων
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ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ Θεοῦ Κορρα υἱὸς Σζεριχ σύμβουλος
Βασιλείῳ διοικητῇ κώμης Ἀφροδιτώ. εὐχαριστοῦμεν
τῷ Θεῷ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα. ηὕραμέν σε λοιπαζόμενον ἐκ τοῦ
διασταλέντος σίτου ἀπʼ ἐμβολῆς καρπῶν ἰνδικτίωνος
ἐνάτης λόγῳ τῶν ὁρρίων χιλίας τριακοσίας ἀρτάβας.
δεχόμενος οὖν τὰ παρόντα γράμματα εὐθέως καὶ κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ὥραν
ἐμβαλλόμενος ἀπόστειλον τὸν τοιοῦτον σῖτον μὴ ἀμελῶν εἰ μέντοι
ἔχεις ἀγαθόν. εἰ δὲ καί ἐστί τι ἐξ αὐτοῦ διὰ χωρίων διοικήσεώς σου
γράψον ἡμῖν τὸ κατὰ χωρίον αὐτῶν καὶ τί λοιπάζεται διʼ αὐτῶν.
ἀλλὰ μὴ ἀμελήσῃς ὡς εἴρηται ἕως οὗ περικυκλώσωσίν σε
ὑφʼ ἓν τὰ ἐπιτάγματα τοῦ δημοσίου καὶ εὑρεθῇς ἀνικάνων. τοῦτο γὰρ
βλάβος σοι μέγα προσφέρει καὶ τοῖς τῆς διοικήσεως σου. ἔσῃ δὲ
ἐπιστάμενος ὡς εἰ καταλάβῃς τὰ πρὸς ἡμᾶς καὶ εὑρεθῇ λοιπαζομένη
διὰ τῆς διοικήσεώς σου ἐκ τοῦ τοιούτου σίτου μία ἀρτάβη καὶ
μόνη μέλλομεν κρατῆσαι καὶ σφῖγξαί σε ἄχρις ἂν οἰκόθεν τούτῳ
ἐξανύσῃς καὶ παραδώσῃς Θεοῦ κελεύοντος. ἐγράφη μηνὸς Ἁθὺρ ζ ἰνδικτίονος θ
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Κορρα υἱὸς Σζεριχ σύμβουλος Βασιλείῳδιοικητῇ κώμης Ἀφροδιτώ.
† μηνὸς Ἁθὺρ κδ ἰνδικτίονος θ ἠνέχθη διὰ Σουλεειμαν βερεδαρίου περὶ λοιπάδος ἐμβολῆς θ ἰνδικτίονοςTranslations (1)
[recto]
Concerning 1,300 artabas of grain, arrears for the granaries.
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In the name of God. Kurrah son of Sharik, governor, to Basileios, administrator of the village of Aphrodito. We give thanks to God, and after this: we have found you in arrears, out of the grain assigned from the embole of the produce of the ninth indiction for the account of the granaries, by 1,300 artabas. So on receiving the present letter, immediately and at that very hour, load and dispatch this grain without neglect, if indeed you have any good sense. And if any of it is owed through the villages of your administration, write to us village by village and what is in arrears through them. But do not neglect this, as has been said, until the demands of the public treasury surround you all at once and you are found unable to meet them. For this brings great harm to you and to those of your administration. And you will know that if you come to us and a single artaba, and only one, of this grain is found in arrears through your administration, we shall seize you and bind you until you pay it from your own resources and deliver it, God commanding. Written in the month of Hathyr, day 7, indiction 9.
[verso]
Kurrah son of Sharik, governor, to Basileios, administrator of the village of Aphrodito.
† Month of Hathyr, day 24, indiction 9. Brought by Souleeiman the courier, concerning the arrears of the embole of the ninth indiction.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 20496 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.lond;4;1370 tier-1
- HGV-Text 20496a tier-1
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