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Letter from the eirenarch Alos to the stratelates Kyrillos about the son of Apa Nakios TM 11823Arsinoites (?)ca. 610

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A letter from Alos, eirenarch (village police officer) of Kaminoi, to the high official Kyrillos, concerning the son of Apa Nakios, whom Alos had entered in a tax or levy list. Alos reports that Eulysios brought a contrary ruling, that the man paid a solidus into the collection, and that Alos kept him from leaving the village; written around AD 610, probably in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] From † To my master, the most magnificent and most glorious stratelates Kyrillos, from your servant Alos, eirenarch of Kaminoi. I had written to your Greatness about the son of Apa Nakios, that I had entered him in your list (pittakion). Do not allow anyone to pass him by […] already […] and behold, Eulysios brought an answer in the name of your Greatness that the son of Apa Nakios is foreign to the list, and the solidus […] to give is counted towards the payment of Eulysios. And behold, he paid his solidus, he put it into the collection. Please demand another one from him. And he sought to leave the village, and I did not allow him without my master's leave. For your Greatness knows that I want no one close to me except my brothers. And you wrote to me on his account; I did as your Authority ordered, master. † [verso] † To my master, the most magnificent stratelates Kyrillos.

The pittakion was an official list or register, here apparently for a levy; the passage on the solidus is damaged and its exact sense uncertain. Stratelates is an honorific military-administrative title of the period.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). 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. 610 · Arsinoites (?)

[r] παρὰ † τῷ δεσπότῃ μου τῷ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτῳ καὶ ἐνδοξοτάτῳ στρατηλάτῃ Κυρίλλῳ παρὰ τοῦ σοῦ δούλου Ἀλῶτος εἰρηνάρχου Καμίνων. ἐγεγραφήκειν εἰς τὸ σὸν μέγεθος περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ Ἄπα Νακίου ὅτι προσέσχον αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ πιττάκιον σοῦ. μὴ ἐάσῃς τινὰ παρελθεῖν αὐτῷ …ει… ἤδη κ[…]ασθη καὶ ἴδο…