Logistes forwards prefect's demand for his predecessor's civic accounts TM 16872Oxyrhynchos22. Juni 309

Valerius Heron also called Sarapion, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Aurelius Seuthes also called Horion, former logistes of the same city, his dearest, greetings. Since a letter has come from my lord the most eminent prefect of Egypt, Aelius Hyginus, concerning the civic accounts of your administration, both of the funds that are in deposit and of those owed, and moreover of those reported to have been spent, ordering me to demand them and send them to his office within the deadline written therein, I immediately, since I saw that you were not present but were absent by order of the higher authorities, undertook to carry this out through the secretary of the city, who however affirmed that he could not compile these accounts in your absence. And since it is now fitting that what has been ordered be carried out, I send you a copy of what was written, dearest, so that, being informed, you may comply. I pray for your health, dearest. In the consulship of our lords Valerius Licinianus Licinius Augustus and Flavius Valerius Constantinus, son of the emperors, on the 10th day before the Kalends of July. [Copy:] Aelius Hyginus to the logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, greetings. The accounts […] of the administration of the logistes before you […] [… 7 lines lost …]