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p.oxy.1.44 ca. 24. Juli 66 - 16. Apr. 70Oxyrhynchos

Sale of Taxes via HGV-meta

Letter of the strategos to the royal scribe on relief for tax-farmers. Official letter from Papiskos, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to the royal scribe Asklepiades about the auction of tax-farming contracts. The farmers of the enkyklion (sales tax) and the agoranomion complained of losses and threatened to flee, and the prefect ordered that they be relieved as far as possible after review of earlier leases. Written at Oxyrhynchus, about AD 66-70. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Παπίσκος κοσμητεύσας στρατηγὸς Ὀξυρυγχίτου Ἀσκληπιάδηι βασιλικῶι γραμματεῖ τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ χαίρειν. ἐπὶ τῆς γενομένης διαπράσεως τῶν τελωνικῶν ὑπό τε ἐμοῦ καὶ σοῦ ἐπὶ παρόντων καὶ τῶν εἰωθότων, δυσπειθούντων τῶν τὸ ἐνκύκλιον ἀσχολουμένων καὶ τῶν τὸ ἀγορανόμιον δημοσιωνῶν ὡς ἱκανὰ βλαπτομένων καὶ κινδυνευόντων μεταναστῆναι, τὸ δόξαν ἡμῖν ἔγραψα τῶι κρατίστωι ἡγεμόνι περὶ τοῦ πράγματος. ἀντιγράψαντος οὖν αὐτοῦ μοι περὶ τοῦ ἐφιδόντα τὰς προτέρας μισθώσεις κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν ἀνακουφίσαι τοὺς τελώνας ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ φυγάδας γενέσθαι τοὺς πρὸς βίαν ἀγομένους, καὶ πρότερόν σοι τὸ ἀντίγραφον τῆς ἐπιστολῆς μετέδωκα ἵνʼ εἰδῇς, καὶ ὅτι ἀποδημοῦντός σου καὶ τῶν ὠνῶν μὴ ἐπιδεδεγμένων ὑπὸ τῶν τελωνῶν μηδὲ μὴν ἄλλων προσερχομένων αὐτοῖς πολλάκις προκηρυχθεισῶν ἔλαβον χειρογραφίας τῶν τε τὸ ἐνκύκλιον καὶ τὸ γραφεῖον ἀσχολουμένων [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Papiskos, former kosmetes, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Asklepiades, royal scribe of the same nome, greetings. At the sale of the tax contracts held by me and you in the presence of the customary persons, since those managing the enkyklion tax and the tax-farmers of the agoranomion were reluctant, on the grounds that they were suffering considerable losses and were in danger of fleeing, I wrote to his excellency the prefect about the matter as we had decided. Since he wrote back to me that, after examining the previous leases, I should as far as possible relieve the tax-farmers, so that those who are being coerced should not become fugitives, I previously gave you a copy of the letter so that you might know; and that, while you were away, since the contracts had not been taken up by the tax-farmers, nor indeed had others come forward for them, though they had often been put up for auction, I obtained written undertakings from those managing the enkyklion and the record office […]

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