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A fragmentary letter from Ploutammon to Abinnaeus, commander of the fort at Dionysias, concerning rents owed and people who have disappeared through malice and fraud. He asks Abinnaeus to arrest them and hand them over to the authority of the dux. It dates to around AD 346 and belongs to the Abinnaeus archive.
The dux was the military commander of the province, to whose jurisdiction the culprits were to be handed. The word translated 'fraud' (ankylokopia) literally suggests crooked dealing or trickery.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀβιννέῳ […] Πλουτάμμων. […]ς, κύριέ μου ἄδελφε, […]…ν… ἐπεὶ οὖν τὴν σὴν […]τοὺς φόρους παρ[…] […]τοὺς φόρους ὀφίλε[…] […]τοὺς φόρους ὑποδεξάσθαι[…]αγιν ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως […]τι τε καὶ Ἑλλᾶν […]…ς ἀγαγεῖν παρὰ […]τὴν ἐξουσίαν τοῦ κυρίου μου δουκὸς[…]…… ἐκ περιδρομῆς […
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