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p.oxy.48.3408 IVOxyrhynchos
Letter from Chaeremon to Dorotheus via HGV-meta
Letter from Chairemon to Dorotheos about tax collection. A business letter from Chairemon to Dorotheos, whom he calls his son, urging him to bring village headmen and grain officials to Psobthis and to collect and send various taxes in tow, barley, gold, money and annonae. It dates to the 4th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation
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TM 33718.
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- Letter from Chaeremon to Dorotheus HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
κυρίῳ μου υἱῷ
Δωροθέῳ Χαιρήμων.
σπούδασον ἐν τῇ σήμερον
Βαροῦσιν τὸν σύμμαχον
ἢ ἄλλον εἰς Ψῶβθιν τοὺς
κωμάρχας ἀνενέγκαι, καὶ
τοὺς σιτολόγους τῆς λοιπάδος τῶν κριθῶν καὶ
τοὺς ἐπὶ σιππίου τῆς Ταμπεμοὺ ἀπόστειλον φέροντας τὸ σιππίον καὶ τὸ ἀναβολικὸν καὶ τὸ πρωτεῖον
καὶ τοὺς σιτολόγους τῶν
κριθῶν. σπούδασον δὲ τὸν
ὁλοκόττινον τῶν κριθῶν
λαβεῖν παρὰ τῶν ὑπευθύνων
καὶ ἀποστεῖλαι, καὶ τὰ ἀργύρια τῆς
Ἰνδίας τῇ κεφαλῇ σὺν ἀλλαγῆς
δηναρίων μυριάδας μ , γίνονται δηναρίων μυριάδες Ερκ , καὶ λοιπὸν
τὸ βαρύτατον τῆς ἀπαιτήσεως
πάσης τὸν χρυσὸν καὶ τὰς ἀννώνας καὶ εἴπερ ἔργον ποιοῦσι τὸ
ἀπαιτηθὲν ἀπόστειλον. ἔπειξον
τοὺς σιτολόγους τὸν σῖτον ἐγκλεῖσαι ἄχρι κόκκου καὶ τοὺς
ἀπὸ Σατύρου. μνήσθητι πάσης
τῆς καθολικότητος. ἐρρῶσθαί
σε εὔχομαι.
[v]
τὰς ἀποχὰς τοῦ λίνου τῆς Ταμπεμοὺ
καὶ τὰ ἐντάγια Μέλανος ἀπόστειλον.
κυρίῳ μου υἱῷ Δωροθέῳ
ΧαιρήμωνTranslations (1)
[recto]
To my lord son Dorotheos, Chairemon.
Make haste today to bring up to Psobthis the village headmen of Barousis, through the symmachos (messenger) or someone else, and send the sitologoi (grain collectors) responsible for the arrears of barley and those in charge of the tow (sippion) of Tampemou, bringing the tow and the anabolikon and the proteion, and the sitologoi of the barley. And make haste to get the solidus for the barley from those responsible and send it, and the money for the India tax, the principal together with the exchange charge, 40 myriads of denarii, total 5,120 myriads of denarii, and further the heaviest part of the whole levy, the gold and the annonae, and if they are doing their work, send what has been collected. Press the sitologoi to store the grain down to the last kernel, and those from Satyros. Remember everything in general. I pray for your health.
[verso]
Send the receipts for the flax of Tampemou and the entagia (payment orders) of Melas.
To my lord son Dorotheos, Chairemon.
Connections
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33718 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;48;3408 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33718 tier-1
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