basp.61.188 Oxyrhynchus (Oxyrhynchites)

In each district, arrangements must be made for the collection of the land tax on hereditary estates. It is understood that attention will be given to such a necessary matter. This will be carried out by the officials, and the beneficarius of the first year of the Emperors Caesars Titus Fulvius Junius Macrianus and Titus Fulvius Junius Quietus, the Pious Fortunate Augusti, on the 9th of Mecheir. Fifteen thousand choes of product, which are fourteen million cotylae, barren and unwatered, for the whole of the handed-over land types, a cotyle of 4 [units] from which collected to be measured for the greatness of the most illustrious governor by the strategos and to the councils who may examine, but indeed also by the generals to be calculated from the land managers of the hereditary estates. I have ordered that a sample be prepared for the plain accounting of arouras, twenty-four million, fifteen thousand, four hundred and forty-two, for the primary leaders and councilors of Oxyrhynchus. It is sent to you, dearest, I wish you to be well, dearest, in the first year of the Emperors Caesars Titus Fulvius Junius Macrianus and Titus Fulvius Junius Quietus, the Pious Fortunate Augusti.