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chrest.wilck.237 I - II
Brief betreffend die Grundsteuer via HGV-meta
Letter about the survey account of flooded and unflooded land. A letter, probably from an official or clerk to a superior, concerning the survey of land for the land tax. The writer explains a delay in sending an account of flooded land, blaming the village scribe's incomplete survey documents, and reports figures for land reclassified between flooded and unflooded categories. It dates to the 1st or 2nd century AD. machine translation
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TM 25947.
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- p.lips.1.105 DDbDP-text I - II
- Brief betreffend die Grundsteuer HGV-meta unbekanntI - II
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
ἐχθὲς κατέσχον
τὸν φύλακα νομίζων σοι δύνασθαι πέμψαι ὃν
ἐπεζήτησας λόγον.
ὃν μετὰ μίαν
ὥραν πέμψω, δύο
γὰρ νύκτας συσχὼν
ἐμαυτὸν καὶ ἄλλους
δύο μόγις τὸν τῆς
βεβρεγμένης ἀπήρτισα. τοῦτο
δὲ ἐγένετο διὰ τὸ τὸν κωμογραμματέα
μεταδιδόντα
τὰ περιοδευτικὰ
μὴ καταγειοχέναι
ἑκάστου εἴδους
τὴν ψῆφον, ἵνα
μέντοι ἀμεριμνότερον ἔχῃς, γράφω σοι ὅτι ἀπὸ τῶν
μεταδοθεισῶν
ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς ἐπίσκεψιν ὡς ἐπιπαρηγμένων τῆι ἐπηντλημένῃ καὶ ἀβρόχωι ἀρουρῶν Αων καὶ πρὸς
μόναι ἀποκατεστάθησαν μέχρι λ
εἰς ἄβροχον καὶ ἐπηντλημένην
ἄρουραι ρκζ. τὰς
γὰρ λοιπὰς εἰς
πλήρωσιν
τῶν Δτ καὶ πρὸς
τῶν διὰ τοῦ ἐν κεφαλαίῳ
λόγου σημανθεισῶν
ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ βεβρεγμένων
παρεῖκεν μὴ μεταδοὺς ὡς ὁμολόγους
οὔσας.Translations (1)
Yesterday I detained the guard, thinking I could send you the account which you requested. I will send it in an hour, for after keeping myself and two others at it for two nights I have barely completed the account of the inundated land. This happened because the village scribe, in handing over the survey (periodeutika) documents, had not brought down the total of each category. However, so that you may be less anxious, I write to you that of the 1,850 and more arouras handed over by him for inspection as having been wrongly added to the artificially irrigated and unflooded land, up to the 30th only 127 arouras have been restored to the unflooded and artificially irrigated land. The rest, making up the 4,300 and more which he had indicated in the summary account as flooded, he passed over without handing them over, as being undisputed.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 25947 primary
- DDbDP-Text chrest.wilck;;237 tier-1
- HGV-Text 25947 tier-1
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