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Copies of the prefect's letters on grain transport charges and account adjustments TM 10220Arsinoitesca. 170

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Copies of official correspondence, including a letter of the prefect of Egypt Gaius Calvisius Statianus to the strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, about discrepancies in measurements and carriage charges for grain loaded onto boats. The strategos is told to adjust the accounts of the nome accordingly, and accounting figures in wheat follow.

In English machine translation

[1] 155 [Of the letter written to] the strategos of the meris, [the headings] copied concerning measurements [differing with] him regarding the [shipment and with the royal] scribe when he was deputizing [for the office of strategos], I have appended a copy [for you, so that you may know. Please, then,] arrange [these headings and] add them [to the accounts of the administration of this] nome [and inform me.] […] I pray for your health. [Year] […] of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord [Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus] Maximus. […] [Gaius Calvisius Statianus, prefect of Egypt,] [to Eudaimon, strategos of the Herakleides] division [of the Arsinoite nome,] [his dearest,] […] [very many gre]etings. […] […] by you […] [if it is no] burden [to you] […] […] [2] 156 So that you may know, dearest, I write to you that there is to be given for the carriage charge of the loading onto the boats at the aforementioned granary, per [100 artabas], 2 half-artabas, that is 1 artaba per 100 artabas, there being deducted 6 1/2 artabas per 100. [Whatever] differs from what is given by you, please deduct it and add it to the accounts of the administration of this nome and inform me. I pray for your health. Year 9 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mesore 11. Up to here what was written. In accordance with which, the amounts reckoned in the account of the administration reported here as conversion: wheat, 40 artabas (balanced) total of conversions, wheat, 65 1/2 artabas (balanced) and the amounts relieved at the receipt: wheat […]

The numbers 155 and 156 heading the columns appear to be sheet or document numbers in an official register. The prefect's and strategos's names in column 1 are restored; the meaning of the half-artaba and per-100 figures is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Correspondance officielle relative à une erreur de taxation). 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 · ca. 170 · Arsinoites

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