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Business letter about payments and receipts for chaff TM 129794Maximianopolis1. Hälfte IV

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A fragmentary business letter of the first half of the 4th century AD from Maximianopolis, in which the writer reports on a visit to the town, payments by people under an estate manager, and sends receipts for chaff of Heraklas and Sansnos to be recorded. It also mentions Dionysios, manager for another Dionysios, and inquiries by the strategos.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] know that I went to Maximianopolis with his friends and I saw them paying in full (?) […] their pronoetes (estate manager). Concerning the […] which he said, demand them from them. And trouble those sitting in authority in the city. They are: [column i] […] […] […] [column ii] For let Dionysios the pronoetes of Dionysios learn that we did not find his landowner and did not meet him monthly, as he was satisfied with this. I have sent you the receipts for chaff of Heraklas and Sansnos […] and keep hold of (?) Pathermouthis, until he knows for this monthly (account) whom the strategos sought, not to trouble (them), and also the one who did not readily come to you; if then he seeks these, to trouble (them). Let the receipts for chaff be entered in the accounts so that the friends may see them. I pray for your health for many years, lord brother.

A pronoetes was an estate manager or agent acting for a landowner (geouchos). Many restorations are conjectural, so the sense of the middle passage is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre d'affaires). 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 · 1. Hälfte IV · Maximianopolis

[main] [… ? lines lost …] […]…αι…[…] γίγνωσκε ὅτι εἰς τὴν Μαξιμιανόπολιν ἐγενόμηνμετὰ τῶν φίλων αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶδον αὐτοὺς πληρώσαν τας […]ν τὸν προνοητὴν αὐτῶν. περὶ δὲ τῶν […] ἃ εἶπεν ἀπαίτει αὐτούς. ἐνόχλησον δὲ τοῖς καθημένοις ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως. εἰσὶ δέ· [column i] […]α […]… […] [co…