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p.oxy.20.2265 120 - 123Alexandria

Letter of a Prefect via HGV-meta

Prefect's circular supporting collectors of the manumission tax. Circular letter of the Roman prefect of Egypt, Haterius Nepos, to the strategoi of the Upper Country, instructing them to help the agents of Secundus, the farmer of the 5 percent tax on the freeing of slaves, to collect it according to the law. It was issued on 5 October, in AD 120-123, at Alexandria. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] [… 4 lines lost …] [r,md] [… 3 lines lost …] [v,ms] ἐδόθη πρὸ τριῶν νωνῶν Ὀκτωβρίων [v,ctr] Ἁτέριος Νέπως στρατηγοῖς Ἄνω χώρας χαίρειν. τοῖς πραγματευταῖς Φουτίου Σεκούνδου ᾧ τὸ τέλος τῆς εἰκοστῆς τῶν ἐλευθεριῶν προσήκει εὖ ποιήσετε συνλαβόμενοι ἐν οἷς ἐὰν δικαιώσητε, ἵνα κατὰ τὸν τῆς εἰκοστῆς νόμον πράττωσιν. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς βούλομαι.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] [… 4 lines lost …] [… 3 lines lost …] [verso] Issued on the third day before the Nones of October. Haterius Nepos to the strategoi of the Upper Country, greeting. You will do well to assist the agents of Fotius (?) Secundus, to whom the collection of the twentieth-tax on manumissions belongs, in whatever matters you consider just, so that they may collect in accordance with the law of the twentieth. I wish you good health.

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Found at Alexandria

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