Copy of official correspondence from the Metelite nome under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus: Dorion, the nome's accounting officer, writes to the strategos Aelius Didymus alias Serenus and the royal scribe Dioskoros alias Anoubion. He asks that the archive keeper be compelled to produce declarations of people from Hagnos who failed to declare property owed to the treasury, following an inquiry by the deputy high priest Salvius Iustus.
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[...] the administration of the Idios Logos [...] from Thoth to Pachon 10 of year 6 [...] day
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Idios Logos
(Copy) of the letter of Dorion, eklogistes of the Metelite nome, written to me and to the royal scribe [...], about compelling the keeper of the archives to produce the declarations belonging to the persons from Hagnos.
Dorion, eklogistes of the Metelite nome, to Aelius Didymus also called Serenus, strategos, and Dioskoros also called Anoubion, royal scribe of the same nome, his dearest friends, greetings.
In reply to what was written [...] to the strategos in year 4 of Antoninus and Verus the lords emperors, Pachon 26, by Salvius Iustus the deputy high priest, concerning the persons from Hagnos who did not declare what belongs to the treasury, nothing was reported. Since also, in reply to my instructions that copies be supplied of their declarations existing in the local archive from year 15, Mecheir, to year 22, Phaophi, [...] be set out [...]
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nor them until [...]
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to have sent instructions to the [...]
so that he may see also the particular items [...]
to have written so that [...]
of the nome, the business officials (?) [...]
having made the examination [...]
I sent instructions to you that [...] you supply [...]
and of the rest the [...]
I pray for your health. [...]
Year [...] of Antoninus and Verus [...]
the copy of the letter [...]
items completed (?) [...]
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(From the office) of Aelius Didymus also called Serenus, former strategos of the Metelite nome, and the royal scribe of the same nome [...] of the administration of the Idios Logos, (documents) from Thoth to Pachon 10 of year [...] of Antoninus and Verus the lords emperors [...]
The Idios Logos was the Roman office handling irregular revenues such as confiscations; the eklogistes was a financial auditor of the nome. The date is inferred from the regnal years in the text, since the records give none.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.