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Fragmentary official letter from Aurelius Ammonios to Asklepiades, praepositus of a district (pagus), passing on orders of the prefect Flavius Iovasius about delivering barley and the tax quota (canon) by set deadlines, with a penalty of one talent for non-compliance. It was written at Hermopolis around AD 340.
The canon was the annual tax quota in kind. Much of the address and the prefect's titles are editorial restorations; the pagus number is restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Amtlicher Brief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αὐρήλιος Ἀμμώνιος[…] Ἀσκληπιάδῃ πραιποσίτῳ ιε πάγου χαίρειν. προσέταξεν ἡ ἀνδρεία τοῦ κυρίου μου διασημοτάτου ἡγεμόνος Φλαυίου Ἠουασίου διʼ ὧν ἔγραψεν[…] …[…]ει καὶ τὰς κριθὰς[…] ουμαι τὸν κανόνα Νοεμβρι[…] Καλανδῶν Ὀκτωβρίων […] ὡς ἐκ θείου προστάγματος καὶ γραμμάτων τῶν κυρίων …
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