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Strategos' summons to a former lease supervisor to appear before the procurator TM 11957Arsinoites11. Nov. 148

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An official order from Theon, strategos of two divisions of the Arsinoite nome, to Herakleides son of Herodes, telling him that the nome auditor has named him as supervisor of a lease with a shortfall and instructing him to appear at once before the imperial procurator Eirenaios. It is dated 11 November 148 and was delivered by an attendant.

In English machine translation

Of the metropolis, 21. Theon, strategos of the Themistos and Polemon divisions of the Arsinoite nome, to Herakleides son of Herodes, grandson of Leon, from the Cilicians' quarter, greetings. Aelius Nikias, the auditor (eklogistes) of the nome, in the petition which he forwarded concerning the notification of those registered through him in the items deferred by his excellency the prefect Petronius Honoratus at the assize of the nome which he most recently held, to Eirenaios the procurator of our lord Caesar, has declared that you were supervisor (epiteretes) of a lease made through Antonius son of Theon for certain years, on account of a deficit of the lease. So that you may know what has been ordered and go at once to his excellency the procurator, I have written to you. I have signed. Year 12 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Hathyr 15. I, Arreios also called Dioskoros, on duty by lot as attendant, have delivered it.

The matter was among cases deferred by the prefect Petronius Honoratus at his assize (conventus) and referred to the procurator. The epiteretes was a liturgical supervisor responsible for state leases and revenues.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Amtsauftrag des Strategen an einen Liturgen). 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 · 11. Nov. 148 · Arsinoites

μητροπόλεως κα. Θέων στρατηγὸς Ἀρσινοίτου Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος μερίδων Ἡρακλείδῃ Ἡρώδου τοῦ Λέοντος ἀπὸ Κιλίκων χαίρειν. Αἴλιος Νικίας ὁ τοῦ νομοῦ ἐκλογιστὴς ἐν ᾧ ἀνέπεμψε βιβλιδίῳ περὶ τοῦ παραγγελῆναι τοῖς διʼ αὐτοῦ ἐμφερομένοις εἴδεσιν ὑπερτεθεῖσιν ὑπὸ τοῦ κρατίστου ἡγεμόνος…