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Official report on the exaction of grain taxes at Oxyrhynchus TM 16427Oxyrhynchos232 - 247

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Fragmentary draft or copy of an official letter from Oxyrhynchus, addressed to a high official ('your Magnificence'), defending the writer's conduct in collecting grain taxes of the 12th year owed to the treasury. It mentions a Herennianus, soldiers and decurions sent to enforce collection, councillors, and complaints of the Oxyrhynchites.

In English machine translation

[…] my lord, on the 4th of the month Choiak, by means of which […] […] your […] brought against the exaction […] […] and having made clear what you wrote to them, in which […] […] to choose those who will be appointed over […] […] to me to adapt (?) to the exaction, as not just […] […] I was induced to make clear to your Magnificence all the […] […] of the works, that neither rashly to these […] […] lamenting the ruin (?) of the Oxyrhynchites […] […] hope for the future having been cut off, and before […] […] to Herennianus, as he himself says, through what he wrote […] […] to the most […] treasury (fiscus), as procurator, to the exaction […] […] giving soldiers and sending decurions and […] […] previously from the threshing floors, so that from them […] […] the proper quota (canon), and if it were not burdensome […] […] letters to me, perhaps […] vigilance […] […] I gave instructions in writing, and threatening […] […] I pressed on, but let these matters be […] […] I continued these things, and having received still more the [letters] of the most excellent […] […] the grain taxes of the 12th year in full, demanding […] […] councillors, a promise on condition of not making […] […] the minutes drawn up, which he also appended […] […] written to me, among which were also the things sent to him […] […] that I, by the most lawful way of the exaction […] […] they were putting into effect what was ordered at once […] […] owed to the treasury; after this my […] […] my lord, concerning the exaction in full […]

The beginnings and ends of all lines are lost, so the exact roles of writer and addressee are uncertain. 'Kanon' refers to the fixed annual tax quota.

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.

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p.oxy.42.3028

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 232 - 247 · Oxyrhynchos

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