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A short letter from Alypios, owner of a large estate, to his manager Heroninos, ordering him to deliver grain measures to the dekaprotos (a tax-collecting official) through his grain-measurer and to obtain receipts at once. He warns that negligence will bring prosecution for his past faults as well. It belongs to the Heroninos archive from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, AD 249-268.
The dekaprotoi were local officials responsible for collecting taxes in kind. The recto ends with a lost section; only the start of the address survives on the verso.
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.
[r] παρὰ Ἀλυπίου εἴ τι δύνασαι τῶν μετρημάτων παράδος τῷ δεκαπρώτῳ διὰ τοῦ σοῦ σιτομέτρου καὶ τὸ σύμβολον αὐθωρὸν κόμισαι εἰδὼς ὅτι ἐὰν ἀμελές τι ποιήσῃς καὶ τὰ σύμβολα μὴ λάβῃς καὶ τὰ παλαιά σου ἁμαρτήματα ἐπεξελεύσεως τεύξεται. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι [… ? lines lost …] [v] παρὰ Ἀλ…
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