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p.oslo.3.88 ca. 370Oxyrhynchos (?)
Letter concerning the Collection of Taxes via HGV-meta
Letter to Eudoros concerning tax collection, linen, gold and grain shipments. A fragmentary letter to Eudoros, probably from Oxyrhynchus around AD 370, repeatedly urging him to deal with tax collections and related business: overdue linen payments threatening seizure of pledges, gold and village headmen owed for Constantinople, grain shipping and its receipts, and payments in denarii. machine translation
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- Letter concerning the Collection of Taxes HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos (?)ca. 370
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Transcription
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[… ? lines lost …]
[…]…[…]
[…]…[…] εἴ τι ἀποστέλλεις ἀπὸ …[…]
σου καὶ μὴ οἱ δύο …[…] καὶ Θων[…]
εἰς ἕνα τόπον· ὁ ἀπερχόμενος …[…]
ἀπαιτείτω τὸν παλαιὸν οἶνον πρωτοτύπως.
καὶ πολλάκις σοιἔγραψα περὶ τῆς
ἀπαιτήσεως τῆς ἐχθέσεως, εἰ προεχώρησεν ἢ οὐ·
ἀληθῶς τὰ ἐνέχυρα αἴρεται διὰ τὸ λίνον, ἐὰν μὴ ἐν τῇ σήμερον ἢ αὔριον πληρωθῇ· οἱ γὰρ λινόυφοι ἐξελαύνονται. καὶ περὶ
τῆς Κωνσταντινοπόλεως οὔτε τοὺς κωμάρχας ἀπέστειλας οὔτε χρυσόν. γίγνωσκε
ὅτι ὁ ἐργάτης αλ[…]…η ἑτοιμάσατο
ἑαυτόν· καὶ ὅ τε π[…] αὐτοῦ καὶ οἱ μέλλοντες χειρογραφεῖν μετʼ αὐτοῦ ἀνελθάτωσαν μετʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ καταστάτου. ἀπαίτησον τοὺς ἀπὸ τ[…]εμου διμοίρου μέρους
εἰς τὸ Πηλούσιον μ[…] τοῦ χρυσοῦ τοῦ ἑνὸς
ἐκ δηναρίων μυριάδων Βσν . καὶ περὶ τῆς ἐνβολῆς τοῦ σίτου
πολλὰ γάρ μοι ἐποίησεν ὁ σπεκουλάτωρ καὶ
περὶ τοῦ ναύλου τοῦ σίτου, ἵνα λάβω τὸ ἐνέχυρον,
καὶ περὶ τῆς ἀποχῆς τοῦ σίτου πλοίου Πτολεμίνου ἀπόστειλον, ἵνα λημματισθῇ· καὶ πολλάκις σοι γὰρ ἔγραψα περὶ τούτου, καὶ οὐδὲ
προσεποιήθης. τὰ εἴδη τῆς καθόλου[…]οὔτε
ἀπέστειλας οὔτε ἔγραψας· ἀλλὰ σπούδασονἀποστεῖλαι τὴν ἀποχὴν τοῦ λίνου[…]καὶ μὴ
ἀμελήσῃς. καὶ πολλάκις σοι ἔγραψα περὶ[…]
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ἔγραψά σοι πολλάκις περὶ τῆς
[…]τῶν Κωμασίου δηναρίων μυριάδος α
[…]εὺς ἔσχεν τὴν ἀποχὴν
[…]… παρέσχεν τὸ ἀργύριον καὶ
[…]υ…ρ…ς ὑβριζομένου ἀνεδέξατο ? : σπούδασον οὖν ἀποστεῖλαι α…ελω μυριάδας α
[…]σθοῦ τοῦ καταστάτου καὶ τ[…]
προπομποῦ ἐκτάκτως μηδὲ …[…]
τὴν ἀπαίτησιν.
Εὐδώρῳ παρὰ[…]Translations (1)
[recto]
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[...] [...]
[...] [...] if you send anything from [...] of yours, and not the two [...] and Thon[...] to one place. Let the one who goes away [...] demand the old wine first of all.
I have also written to you many times about the collection of the exthesis, whether it has gone ahead or not. Truly, the pledges are being seized on account of the linen, unless it is paid in full today or tomorrow; for the linen-weavers are being driven out. And concerning Constantinople, you have sent neither the village headmen nor the gold. Know that the workman [...] has made himself ready; and let both his [...] and those who are going to sign with him go up with him and the katastates. Demand from those of [...] the two-thirds share to Pelusium [...] of the one gold piece at the rate of 2,250 myriads of denarii. And concerning the loading of the grain, for the speculator has caused me much trouble, and about the freight charge for the grain, so that I may recover the pledge, and send the receipt for the grain of the ship of Ptoleminos, so that it may be entered in the accounts; for I have written to you many times about this, and you did not even take notice. The goods of the katholikos (?) [...] you have neither sent nor written about; but make haste to send the receipt for the linen [...] and do not neglect it. And I have written to you many times about [...]
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[verso]
[I have written to] you many times about the [...] of Komasios, 1 myriad of denarii [...]eus received the receipt [...] provided the money and [...] being insulted, undertook [...]. Make haste, then, to send [...] 1 myriad [...] the wage (?) of the katastates and [...] of the escort, as an extraordinary payment, and not [...] the collection.
To Eudoros, from [...]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 21534 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oslo;3;88 tier-1
- HGV-Text 21534 tier-1
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