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Copies of correspondence on transport charges owed to camel-keepers TM 12586Arsinoites

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Copies of official correspondence from the Arsinoite nome. The second column preserves a letter of the city magistrates of Ptolemais Euergetis quoting the strategos Apollinarios, who forwarded a petition of camel-keepers of Soknopaiou Nesos and Karanis to the prefect Avidius Heliodorus about unpaid transport charges from the city account; it is dated year 4 of Antoninus Pius, Mesore 11 (AD 141). The first column concerns wheat shipments and former gymnasiarchs of the city.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] […] of the administration (?) […] of year […] of the god […] […]th year […] after other matters […] of the Arsinoites […] Flavius (?) […] and […] former gymnasiarchs […] of the city of the Arsinoites […] […] of wheat, artabas […] […] harbour of Alsos (?) of the metropolis […] to send off […] his produce […] wheat, artabas […]16 […] them […] I instructed The[…] […] to pay Kano[…] through whom the examination […] of wheat, artabas 6530 […] […] also called Sarapion […] division, Flavius [and …] former gymnasiarchs […] of the city of the Arsinoites […] having been ordered […] of the city […] Kano[…] [… lines lost …] [Column 2] The magistrates of Ptolemais Euergetis to Apollinarios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, most honoured, greetings. Of the letter transmitted to us by you, this is a copy: Apollinarios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, to the magistrates of Ptolemais Euergetis, greetings. Of the report brought to me, with the subscription of his excellency the prefect, in the name of Satyros son of Sotas and Dioskoros son of Mysthes and the camel-keepers with them of the villages of Soknopaiou Nesos and Karanis, concerning transport charges owed to them, I have appended the copy for you. […] petition and of transport charges […] and Dios son of Dios […]. You must therefore inform me also […] from the city account to the camel-keepers of Karanis and Soknopaiou Nesos, of 25 drachmas […] doing this. I pray for your health. […] Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mesore 11. Copy: To Gaius Avidius Heliodorus, prefect of Egypt, from Satyros son of Sotas and Dioskoros son of Mysthes and the camel-keepers with them of Soknopaiou Nesos and Karanis in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome […] of the public […] camel-keepers […] from the city account, silver drachmas […] […] […] […] [… lines lost …]

The 'transport charges' (phoretra) were payments to camel drivers for carrying goods such as grain. Column 1 is too damaged for a connected sense.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Copy of official correspondence). 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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