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p.oxy.55.3807 ca. 26 - 28 (?)Oxyrhynchos

Business Letter via HGV-meta

Business letter about tax posts, debts and an audit by Iberos. A fragmentary business letter, probably from Oxyrhynchus around AD 26-28, from an official or agent to an associate about debts, hides, tax collection posts, a registration to be completed before a festival, and news that scribes are being detained while an official named Iberos audits the books. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[1] [… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] […]…εξ[…] […]δ γίνονται δραχμαὶ λη, λοιπαὶ λϛ τετρώβολον … […]…ν λαβεῖν ὑπερ…[…] […] καὶ ἔλεγεν εκ…[…] […]…ογρ λαβὼν ἐξ οἴκου […]…ασι τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ […]…ιων ο καὶ τὸ σῶμα […]…ρ ἀνθρώπινα […]ς τὸν Ἰουδαῖον […] καὶ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ [2] […]…ον χόρτον […]το[…] Ἡρακλᾶτος […]…ειν καὶ ζήτησον ποῦ […]απιανός, ἵνα μὴ ἀργῇ, καὶ ἔντειλαι […]ς δραχμ αἰτήσῃ τὸν Ναρκίσσου […]… ὀφείλεται αὐτ[…]ι. […] δερμ…[…]… δερμ β καὶ […]… δερμ αἰγει … ὡς εἰς οἶκον […]θμη λαβε…[…] καὶ τὰς […]ι διὰ τοῦ γενομένου στρατηγοῦ Αὐάσεως …[…]στρατ…[…] ὧδε πρὸς δύο ἡμέρας καὶ …[…]…νοτ…[…]…ουσι εἴσελθε. ἐὰν σὺ θέλῃς εἰσελθεῖν εἰς πρακτορείαν σὺν Χαιρέᾳ εἰσέλθῃς, εἰ δὲ μή γε, σὺ λάβῃς τοπαρχίαν καὶ τελέσας εἴσελθε. πρὸς τὴν […]…ην τῶν ὀλυροκοπιῶν ἑορτὴν φθάνειν χρὴ τὴν ἀπογραφὴν τελέσαι. ἀπὸ γὰρ κε […]…ης ἀπογραφ γίνεται. εἶπον Παυσιρίωνι τῶι υ…η αἰτῆσαι Κόμωνα οἰνοπώλην δραχμὰς η, εἰ μὴ εἰς οἶκον ἔδωκεν. ἔρρωσο. μετὰ ταῦτα ἔλαβον τὴν Διογένους προσμαρτύρησιν. μέμφομαι δὲ μεγάλως τοὺς μαχαιροφόρους μὴ προπέμψαντάς με εἰς Δικωμίαν. ἔγραψα δοῦναι …[…] τὸ διάστρωμα τῶν ἱκανοδοσιῶν τοῦ ιβ ἔτους. μεταλαμβάνομεν παρὰ τῶν ἀναπλεόντων κατέχεσθαι τοὺς προκαταπεπλευκότας γραμματέας Κάτω χώρας διὰ τὸ αὐτὸν Ἵβηρον ἐπιπορεύεσθαι τὰ βιβλία, μάλιστα τὰ ἐλασσώματα τῆς τριετίας, οὗ χάριν φοβοῦμαι μὴ καὶ αὐτὸς πολὺν χρόνον ἐκεῖ κατασχεθῶ τοὺς β χάρτας ἔλαβον. χαίρω μεγάλως ἐπὶ τῷ με μέλλειν καταπλεῦσαι καὶ μηδὲν ἔχων κατʼ εὐχὴν χάριν τῶν Διοπολιτικῶν πραγμάτων. διὸ μηδὲ ὑμεῖς μετ…[…]….

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[Column 1] [… lines lost …] […] … […] […] … six (?) […] […] 4, total 38 drachmas, remainder 36 drachmas 4 obols … […] … to receive over (?) […] […] and he said […] […] … having received from the house […] … of his son […] … and the body […] … human (affairs) […] the Jew […] and his brother [Column 2] […] … hay […] … of Heraklas […] … and search where […]apianos, so that he may not be idle, and instruct […] drachmas, he should demand from the son of Narkissos […] … is owed to him […]. […] hides (?) […] … 2 hides and […] … goat hides … as for the house […] … receive […] and the […] through the former strategos of the Oasis … […] … here for two days and … […] … come in. If you wish to come into the collectorship with Chaireas, come in; but if not, take a toparchy and when you have finished, come in. Before the […] festival of the olyra-threshing (?) one must hurry to complete the registration. For from the 25th (?) […] the registration takes place. Tell Pausirion the … to demand 8 drachmas from Komon the wine-seller, unless he has paid them to the house. Farewell. Afterwards I received Diogenes' supplementary testimony. I greatly blame the sword-bearers for not escorting me to Dikomia. I wrote to give … […] the schedule of the guarantees of the 12th year. We learn from those sailing up that the scribes of the Lower Country who sailed down earlier are being detained because Iberos himself is going through the books, especially the deficits of the three-year period, for which reason I fear that I too may be detained there a long time. I received the 2 sheets of papyrus. I rejoice greatly that I am about to sail down, and that nothing is going as I would wish regarding the Diospolite affairs. Therefore do not you either […] ….

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