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Letter to the strategos Heron about an account of village receipts TM 12289perhaps Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egyptca. 298-300 A.D.

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Letter from Philadelphos and Dioskoros to the strategos Heron, replying to his request, brought by the mountain-guard Isidoros of Philadelphia, for their account of what they received from each village between the 21st and 27th of a month. They explain that they had already drawn up the account and sent it through an official of his staff. It dates to about AD 298-300 and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

To my lord Heron, strategos, Philadelphos and Dioskoros, greetings. We received your letter through Isidoros, mountain-guard of the village of Philadelphia, (asking us) to report to you the account from the 21st to the 27th, what it is that we have received from each village. Having drawn up the account, we sent it through a public servant of your office. When you sent to us the mountain-guard […] […] with your […] he asked us for the copy, and we wrote back to you that, having made the account, we had sent it. We pray for your health, my lord.

The oreophylax ('mountain-guard') was a desert-edge guard who also served as a messenger. The month and year of the account period are not named.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to a Strategos). 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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Official Letter

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 1370 · ca. 298-300 A.D. · perhaps Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Letter from Philadelphos and Dioskoros to the strategos Heron regarding his request to see their accounts for a seven-day period of an unnamed month and year, which they had sent by the time they received a second request for it from the strategos

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p.mich.11.622

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 298 - 300 · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

κυρίῳ μου Ἥρωνι στρατηγῷ Φιλάδελφος καὶ Διόσκορος χαίρειν. ἐκομισάμεθά σου γράμματα διὰ Ἰσιδώρου ὀρεοφύλακος κώμης Φιλαδελφίας ὥστε δηλῶσαί σοι τὸν λόγον τὸν ἀπὸ κα ἕως τῆς κζ τί ἐστιν ἃ παρειλήφαμεν ἀφʼ ἑκάστης κώμης. τὸν μὲν λόγον συνποιήσαντες ἀπεστείλαμεν διὰ δημοσίου τῆς σῆς…