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p.oxy.1.58 13. Sept. 288Oxyrhynchos

Appointment of Treasury Officials via HGV-meta

Circular on the appointment of managers for treasury estates. A circular letter from the official Nerbaios Africanus to the strategoi of the Heptanomia and the Arsinoite nome, complaining that many self-styled administrators, secretaries and managers were consuming the revenues of imperial treasury estates. He orders that each estate have a single solvent manager chosen under the responsibility of the town council, with at most two or three assistants. Dated 13 September 288, from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation

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Transcription

Νερβαῖος Ἀφρικανὸς στρατηγοῖς ἐπιστρατηγίας ἑπτὰ νομῶν καὶ Ἀρσινοίτου χαίρειν. ἀπʼ αὐτῶν τῶν λόγων ἐφάνη ὡς πολλοὶ βουλόμενοι τὰς ταμιακὰς οὐσίας κατεσθίειν ὀνόματα ἑαυτοῖς ἐξευρόντες, οἱ μὲν χειριστῶν οἱ δὲ γραμματέων οἱ δὲ φροντιστῶν, ὄφελος μὲν οὐδὲν περιποιοῦσιν τῷ ταμείῳ τὰ δὲ περιγεινόμενα κατεσθίουσιν· διʼ ὅπερ ἐδέησεν ἐπισταλῆναι ὑμῖν ἵνα ἑκάστης οὐσίας ἕνα τινὰ φροντιστὴν ἀξιόχρεων κινδύνῳ ἑκάστης βουλῆς αἱρεθῆναι ποιήσητε, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ ὀνόματα παύσηται, δυναμένου τοῦ αἱρουμένου φροντιστοῦ δύο ἢ τό γε πλεῖστον τρεῖς προσαιρεῖν τοὺς ἐξυπηρετησομένους αὐτῷ πρὸς τὴν φροντίδα. οὕτως αὐτά τε τὰ μάταια ἀναλώματα παύσεται καὶ αἱ ταμιακαὶ οὐσίαι τῆς προσηκούσης ἐπιμελείας τεύξονται. δηλαδὴ δὲ τοιούτους αἱρεθῆναι ποιήσετε τοὺς τοῖς φροντισταῖς ὑπηρετησομένους οἳ καὶ βασάνοις ὑποκείσονται. ἔρρωσθε. ἔτους ε καὶ δ , Θὼθ ιϛ.

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Nerbaios Africanus to the strategoi of the epistrategia of the Seven Nomes and the Arsinoite, greetings. From the accounts themselves it has become clear that many people wishing to devour the treasury estates, having invented titles for themselves, some of administrators, some of secretaries, some of managers (phrontistai), procure no benefit for the treasury but devour the surplus. For this reason it has been necessary to write to you so that you cause one manager of sufficient means to be chosen for each estate, at the risk of each council, and the remaining titles shall cease, the manager chosen being able to appoint in addition two or at most three persons to assist him in the management. In this way the useless expenses themselves will cease and the treasury estates will receive the proper care. You will of course cause such persons to be chosen to assist the managers as will also be subject to examination under torture. Farewell. Year 5 and 4, Thoth 16.

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