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A short letter from Alypios, head of a large estate, to Heroninos, his manager at Theadelphia in the Fayum, dated 12 December 267. He asks how many artabas of grain Heroninos has paid to the dekaprotoi, the officials responsible for tax collection, and how much remains, and forbids further payments without his written order.
Part of the Heroninos archive of the Appianus estate. The dekaprotoi were local officials responsible for collecting taxes in kind; 'signed' renders an abbreviated mark of authentication.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Corrispondenza heroniniana - Alypios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v] παρὰ Ἀλυπίου. ἅμα τῷ δέξασθαί μου τὰ γράμματα δήλωσόν μοι πόσας ἀρτάβας ἐμέτρησας τοῖς δεκαπρώτοις ὑπὲρ μετρημάτων καὶ πόσας λοιπάζεις ἵνα εἰδῶ· ἐὰν δέ τι λοιπάζῃ ἄνευ ἐμῶν γραμμάτων μὴ μετρήσῃς. καὶ εἴ τι δέονται ἔχειν ὑμῶν καὶ τοῦτο δήλωσον. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. σεσημείωμαι…
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