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p.mert.1.46 Ende V - Anfang VIGessias (Herakleopolites)
Letter of a Tax - Collector via HGV-meta
Letter of a tax collector about gold collection and wine accounts at Gessias. A letter from John, apparently a tax collector, to his superior John the magister, reporting that he found only four gold coins collected at Gessias in the Herakleopolite nome. He explains the difficulty of reconstructing accounts after the death of the former intermediary and the confusion of the soldiers' wine accounts for the eighth and ninth indictions, and says he sent the wine on so the boat would not leave empty. machine translation
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- Letter of a Tax - Collector HGV-meta Gessias (Herakleopolites)Ende V - Anfang VI
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
παρά
καταλαβὼν Γεσσιάδα εἰ μὴ μόνα τέσσερα χρύσινα οὐκ ηὗρον ἀπαιτηθέντα καὶ τάχα ἡ ἀνάγκη
παρασκευάζει με ἐν τῷ ἐπανελθεῖν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἡρακλεοπολιτῶν ποιῆσαι ἐνταῦθα
τρεῖς ἡμέρας ἕως οὗ ἀνυσθῇ τὸ χρυσίον· ὡς γὰρ ἔμαθον δύο ἔχει μόνας ἡμέρας
ἀπαιτῶν ὁ Φιλόξενος ἐλθὼν ἀφʼ Ἡρακλέως καὶ τὰ ζητούμενα ὁλοκόττινα
πολλά ἐστιν ὡς οἶδέν σου ἡ ἀρετὴ καὶ χρεία ἐστὶν ἑκάστῳ λόγον ποιῆσαι.
ἀληθῶς γὰρ κάματός ἐστιν καταλαβεῖν τὸν λόγον τοῦ ἐξ ἀρχῆς μεσάσαντος
τελευτήσαντος καὶ θεὸς οἶδεν πάνυ ὠλιγώρησα μήτε εὑρὼν χρυσίον
μήτε δυνηθεὶς ἀναμεῖναι καὶ μαθεῖν τὸν λόγον ἐπειγόμενος καταλαβεῖν
τὸν δεσπότην μου Ἀρτέμιον. ἵνα δὲ μὴ ἀπολύσω τὸ σκάφος σαβουρᾶτον
τὸν οἶνον τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἀπέστειλα. μάρτυρα ἔχω θεὸν τοῦ θεοῦ οὐκ ἔστιν καταλαβεῖν τὸν
λόγον διὰ τὸ τοὺς πρώην μεσάζοντας μῖξαι τὸν λόγον τοῦ οἴνου τῆς ὀγδόης καὶ ἐνάτης τῶν ἰνδικτιόνων.
[v]
ἐπίδος τῷ δεσπότῃ μου τῷ τὰ πάντα ἐναρέτῳ …[…] Ἰωάννῃ μαγίστρῳ
παρὰ Ἰωάννου μαγ…[…]Translations (1)
[recto]
From […]
On reaching Gessias I found no more than four gold pieces collected, and perhaps necessity will compel me, on returning from the Herakleopolite nome, to spend three days here until the gold is completed. For as I learned, Philoxenos, who came from Herakleopolis, has been collecting for only two days, and the solidi demanded are many, as your excellence knows, and it is necessary to settle accounts with each one. For truly it is hard work to grasp the account, since the man who was intermediary from the beginning has died, and God knows I was very disheartened, neither finding gold nor being able to wait and learn the account, as I was hurrying to reach my master Artemios. So that I would not send the boat off in ballast, I sent off the soldiers' wine. I have God as my witness, by God it is not possible to grasp the account, because the former intermediaries mixed up the account of the wine of the eighth and ninth indictions.
[verso]
Deliver to my master, in all things most virtuous, […] John, magister
From John, mag[…]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 35455 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mert;1;46 tier-1
- HGV-Text 35455 tier-1
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