Petition of the Jew Helenos son of Tryphon to the prefect about the poll-tax TM 18584Alexandria14. Febr. 4 v.Chr. (Tag unsicher)

To Gaius Turranius, from Helenos son of Tryphon, a Jew of those from Alexandria ⟦an Alexandrian⟧. Most mighty ⟦most excellent⟧ prefect, being the son of an Alexandrian father, and having lived here all my life, and having received, as far as my father's means allowed, the appropriate education, I am in danger not only of being deprived of my own fatherland but also [...] into [...] force. For it has happened that Horos [...] the public oikonomos [...] on account of the cause [...] my father to have [...] towards his ancestral [...] ⟦and further also⟧ in Jewish manner (?) [...] having handled [...] from the [...] me [...] of Caesar [...] written [...] of the poll-tax (laographia) [...] from Mecheir to the end, until [...] from year 12 until [...] ⟦of the poll-tax⟧ [...] completing (?) the remaining time of the poll-tax on account of the age of sixty, I ask you, the saviour of all, not to overlook ⟦just as also by the⟧ ⟦former prefects I have been left undisturbed, so also by you the same, nor to you [...]⟧ [...] [...]