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Circular letter of the Roman prefect of Egypt, Haterius Nepos, to the strategoi of the Upper Country, instructing them to help the agents of Secundus, the farmer of the 5 percent tax on the freeing of slaves, to collect it according to the law. It was issued on 5 October, in AD 120-123, at Alexandria.
The vicesima libertatis was a Roman 5 percent tax on the value of slaves set free, here farmed out to a contractor whose agents (pragmateutai) collected it. The recto lines are lost entirely.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of a Prefect). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… 4 lines lost …] [r,md] [… 3 lines lost …] [v,ms] ἐδόθη πρὸ τριῶν νωνῶν Ὀκτωβρίων [v,ctr] Ἁτέριος Νέπως στρατηγοῖς Ἄνω χώρας χαίρειν. τοῖς πραγματευταῖς Φουτίου Σεκούνδου ᾧ τὸ τέλος τῆς εἰκοστῆς τῶν ἐλευθεριῶν προσήκει εὖ ποιήσετε συνλαβόμενοι ἐν οἷς ἐὰν δικαιώσητε, ἵνα κατ…
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