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Two Letters to a Strategus via HGV-meta

Two letters to a strategos about impure grain shipments. Copies of two letters from Antonius Aelianus, apparently an official in charge of grain transport, to the strategos of the Diospolite nome in the Thebaid. Grain shipments from that nome were tested by sample and found to contain barley and earth, so he orders the strategos to recover the shortfall and costs from the sitologoi who loaded the wheat. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[v] […]κ Ἀντώνιος Αἰλιανὸς στρατηγῷ Διοπολίτου Θηβαίδος χαίρειν. τοῦ καταχθέντος γόμου ἐκ τοῦ ὑπὸ σοὶ νομοῦ διὰ[…]αύσιος Σιπῶτος καὶ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ ἐν πυροῦ ἀρτάβαις Β ἐν τῇ τῶν δειγμάτων ἄρσει οὐ καθαροῦ φανέντος ἐκέλευσα ἡμιαρτάβιον κριθολογηθῆναι καὶ βωλολογηθῆναι, καὶ ἐξέβη ἔλασσον κριθῆς μὲν ἑκατοσταὶ δύο βώλου δὲ ὁμοίως ἑκατοστῆς ἥμισυ . τοὺς οὖν τὸν πυρὸν ἐμβαλομένους σιτολόγους πρᾶξον τῷ σῷ κινδύνῳ τὰς συναγομένας σὺν διαφόρῳ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ν 𐅵 δ καὶ τὰ προσμετρούμενα καὶ τὰς ἄλλας δαπάνας, καὶ προσθέμενος τῷ λόγῳ τοῦ χειρισμοῦ δήλωσόν μοι. ἔτους κθ Φαῶφι λ. […] ἐκομισάμην δύο, γίνονται β. ἄλλης. Ἀντώνιος Αἰλιανὸς στρατηγῷ Διοπολίτου Θηβαίδος χαίρειν. τοῦ καταχθέντος γόμου ἐκ τοῦ ὑπὸ σοὶ νομοῦ διὰ […]νυχου Πανγορσαούιος ἐν πυροῦ ἀρτάβαις σν ἐν τῇ τῶν δειγμάτων ἄρσει οὐ καθαροῦ φανέντος ἐκέλευσα 𐅵 ἀρτάβης κριθολογηθῆναι καὶ βωλολογηθῆναι καὶ ἐξέβη ἔλασσον κριθῆς μὲν ἑκατοστὴ α δ βώλου δὲ ὁμοίως. τοὺς οὖν τὸν πυρὸν ἐμβαλομένους σιτολόγους πρᾶξον τῷ σῷ κινδύνῳ τὰς συναγομένου σίτου διαφόρῳ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας […]καὶ τὰ[…] [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[verso] […] Antonius Aelianus to the strategos of the Diospolite nome of the Thebaid, greetings. Since the cargo brought down from the nome under you [through] […]ausis son of Sipos and his associates, amounting to 2,000 artabas of wheat, appeared not clean at the lifting of the samples, I ordered half an artaba to be sifted for barley [and] sifted for earth, and there resulted a deficiency of barley two hundredths and of earth likewise one half of a hundredth. Therefore exact at your own risk from the sitologoi who loaded the wheat the total, with the difference, of 50 3/4 artabas of wheat, and the additional measures and the other expenses, and after adding them to the account of the administration inform me. Year 29, Phaophi 30. […] I received two, total 2. Another. Antonius Aelianus to the strategos of the Diospolite nome of the Thebaid, greetings. Since the cargo brought down from the nome under you through […]nychos son of Pangorsaouis, amounting to 250 artabas of wheat, appeared not clean at the lifting of the samples, I ordered half an artaba to be sifted for barley and sifted for earth, [and there resulted] a deficiency of barley 1 1/4 hundredths, [and of earth likewise]. [Therefore exact from the sitologoi] who loaded the wheat at your own risk the total of grain, with the difference, […] artabas of wheat [and the] […] […]

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