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p.lond.4.1394 708 - 709Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)
Letter from Kurra to Basileios demanding gold taxes for soldiers' pay. Letter from the Arab governor of Egypt, Kurra ibn Sharik, to Basileios, administrator of Aphrodito, rebuking him for failing to collect and send the gold taxes of the seventh indiction. The money is needed to pay the Muhajirun soldiers before their raids, and a messenger is to stay with Basileios until the gold is sent. machine translation
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TM 19844.
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- (untitled record) HGV-meta Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)708 - 709
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ Θεοῦ Κορρα υἱὸς Σζεριχ σύμβουλος
Βασιλείῳ διοικητῇ κώμης Ἀφροδιτώ. εὐχαριστοῦμεν
τῷ Θεῷ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα. πολλάκις γράμμασι φαινόμεθα
χρησάμενοι πρὸς σὲ περὶ τῆς ἐξανύσεως τῶν χρυσικῶν
δημοσίων ἑβδόμης ἰνδικτίονος καὶ μέχρι τῆσδε τῆς ἡμέρας
οὐ διηγέρθης εἰς τοῦτο οὔτε μὴν ἀπέστειλάς τι τὸ σύνολον
ἀλλʼ ἠμέλησας καταφρονήσας καὶ κατέλαβεν ὁ καιρὸς
τοῦ λαβεῖν τοὺς Μωαγαρίτας τοῦ Φοσσάτου τὰς ῥόγας
αὐτῶν καὶ ἐξελθεῖν εἰς τὰ κοῦρσα. δεχόμενος
οὖν τὰ παρόντα γράμματα εὐθέως διὰ πάσης συντομίας
ἀπόστειλον πρὸς ἡμᾶς εἴ τι δʼ ἂν συνῆξας χρυσίον
ἀπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν δημοσίων μετὰ ἀνθρώπου σου τοῦ
ὀφείλοντος τοῦτο καταβαλέσθαι ἐν τῇ σακέλλῃ.
ἐπετρέψαμεν γὰρ τῷ παρόντι ἀποστόλῳ ἵνα μὴ ἀποκινηθῇ
ἐκ σοῦ ἕως δʼ ἂν πέμψῃς εἴ τι δʼ ἂν ἤνυσας καὶ ἀγωνίσῃ
ἐνδρανῶς εἰς τὴν ἐξάνυσιν τοῦ λοιπαζομένου πόσου ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων
χρυσικῶν δημοσίων μετὰ κυβερνήσεως πέμπων
εἴ τι δʼ ἂν ἀνύεις ἐξ αὐτῶν κατὰ πρόσβασιν ἀμελλητὶ ὅπως
μὴ ἀναγκασθῶμεν ἀποστεῖλαι[…]
ἀλεῖψαί σε περὶ τούτου […]…[…]…[…]
διὰ τῆς διοικήσεώς σου τ[…]μετὰ
ἐπιεικείας καὶ κυβερνήσεως[…]
ἢ ἀδίκων καὶ ἔσῃ γινώσκωνὅτι τὸ πρῶτον
ἔργον τοῦ ὑπουργοῦ ἡ ἐξάνυσις τῶν δημοσίων ἐστὶ καὶ
μὴ γένηται διὰ σοῦ παρα…[…]
ἐμπόδιος ἢ τοῦ δοῦναι[…]
διὰ σοῦ πόσον καὶ κινδυνεύῃς. ἐγράφη μηνὸς[…]
[v]
Κορρα υἱὸς Σζεριχ σύμβουλος Βασιλείῳ διοικητῇ κώμης ἈφροδιτώTranslations (1)
[recto]
In the name [of God. Kurra son of Sharik, governor, to Basileios, administrator of the village of Aphrodito. We give thanks] to God, and after this. [We have often, it appears, written] to [you about] the collection of the public gold taxes of the seventh indiction, and up to this [day] you have not bestirred yourself in this, nor indeed have you sent anything at all, but you have been negligent and contemptuous, and the time has come for the Muhajirun of the Fossaton to receive their pay and to go out on the raids. On receiving the present letter, therefore, immediately and with all speed send to us whatever gold you may have collected from these same public taxes, with a man of yours who is to pay it into the treasury. For we have instructed the present messenger not to depart from you until you send whatever you have collected, and strive energetically for the collection of the amount remaining of these gold public taxes, with good management, sending whatever you collect of them as it comes in, without delay, so that we may not be compelled to send […] to anoint (?) you about this […] through your administration […] with fairness and good management […] or unjust ones, and you will know [that the first] task of an official [is] the collection [of the public taxes, and] let there not be through you […] hindering or of giving […] through you the amount, and you will be in danger. [Written in the month] […]
[verso]
Kurra son of Sh[arik, governor, to Basileios, administrator of the village of Aphrodito]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 19844 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.lond;4;1394 tier-1
- HGV-Text 19844 tier-1
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