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Petition to the prefect about fraudulent land registration in the census TM 10113Arsinoites301 - 307

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A petition from two councillors of Arsinoe to the prefect of Egypt Clodius Culcianus, complaining of fraud against the treasury during the census of Septimius Sabinus. They allege that a boundary-surveyor and others, with help from the census officials, registered land under false names so that the dues could not be collected, and ask that the real holders be made to pay.

In English machine translation

To Clodius Culcianus, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, from […] and […]agathos, both councillors of the city of the Arsinoites. In the census [carried out by Septimius] Sabinus the censitor, much trickery has been practised against the treasury […] of the dekaprotoi, not by the censitor but by certain wrongdoers […] boundary-surveyor, having everything at his own discretion, not (?) […] in the declarations of the arouras which he himself farms and enjoys the produce of, a certain Horion […] and a certain Souchammon, who also himself holds land there, substituted (names) not […] his brother Serenos and Manon, and likewise also Sara[…] and Taesis and Panetbeus, and to them the land belonging to him […] they have been able to commit wrongdoing and to dare it, having the iuratores […] as accomplices in what they did, so that […] those [collect]ing the imperial dues have been unable to find what was declared […] to be compelled to pay the dues on their behalf. Since therefore we are able to show to the […] that the land was registered under these names, for this reason […] to order, by whatever means you approve, that those men be compelled to pay the dues for the [land] […] hatred of wrongdoing you can […] […]

The censitor and iuratores were officials of the Diocletianic land census; the dekaprotoi were liturgical tax collectors. The end of the petition is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to the Praefect). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 301 - 307 · Arsinoites

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