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Minutes of council business concerning the census of a former councillor TM 16026unbekannt

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Fragments of memoranda or minutes of business laid before a council, in which items are reported and read out for decision. One item concerns correspondence forwarded by the royal scribe, acting as strategos, from Geminius Valerianus, head of the idios logos, about the census (property assessment) of Eudaimon, a former councillor.

In English machine translation

[column 1] […] sent us some [letter(s)?] […] of […]dios, former […]. These are read out […] in consequence of a petition (?) […] […] […] [… lines lost …] [column 2] […] to pay out (?) […] the price in drachmas […]. I report to you so that you may know. The royal scribe, acting as deputy for the office of strategos, sent us some [letter(s)], with attached what was written to him by his excellency the official in charge of the private account (idios logos), Geminius Valerianus, concerning the census of Eudaimon, former councillor. These are read out to you. What then is your decision? […] sent […] in consequence of a petition […] […]lbanos (?) […] […] read […] [… lines lost …] [column 3] formerly […] […] councillor […] […] Likewise concerning […] […] Likewise concerning […] […] gymnasium (?) […] […] [… lines lost …]

The idios logos was the Roman department handling irregular revenues such as confiscated and ownerless property. The word kensos, a Latin loanword, here probably refers to an assessment or confiscation of the councillor's estate.

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

[r,1] […]ψεν ἡμῖν τινα […]…[…]διου γενο[…]ν. ἅπερ ἀναγει[…] […]…ι…ἐξ ἀξιώσεω[…] […]ωνπε[…] […]γεινω[…] [… ? lines lost …] [r,2] ἐξοδια[…] τὴν τιμὴν ἐν δραχμαῖς … […]ἵνα εἰδῆτε ἀναφέρω ὑμῖν. ὁ βασιλικὸς διαδεχόμενος τὴν στρατηγίαν ἐπέστειλεν ἡμῖν τινα, ὑποτεταγμένων τῶν γραφέντων …