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Draft of a letter to Ptolemaios asking him to send the assistants he assigned for collecting the dues on vineyards and orchards, so that they can point out the debtors or their produce. It belongs to a papyrus with a grain list and letter drafts from the Arsinoite nome, dated 213 BC.
The deletions and corrections show this is a working draft (lines 27-37 of a longer papyrus). 'Dues' renders phoroi, the rents or taxes owed on vineyard and orchard land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Getreideliste und Briefkonzepte). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους ι Τῦβι κθ Πτολεμαίωι. καθότι σοι καὶ Μητρόδωρος γέγραφεν, καλῶς ποιήσεις ἀποστείλας πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἤδη τοὺς ταχθέντας παρὰ σοῦ ὑπηρέτας πρὸς τῆι εἰσπράξει τῶν φόρων τῆς τε ἀμπέλου καὶ τῶν παραδείσων τῶν κατ’ ἐπιστολὴν , παραδεῖξαι ἡμῖν ἡμῖν τούς τε ὀφείλοντας ἢ τὰ τούτων ὑπάρχον…
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