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Fragment of a letter from one official to another, addressed as 'your brotherhood', reporting that the topoteretes Helladios complained that the letter-carrier was being charged gold tax for land he did not hold, and asking that his rights be respected. It belongs to the archive of Dioscoros from Aphrodito, about AD 567.
A topoteretes was a deputy or lieutenant official; the addressee may be Apollos, father of Dioscoros. One record dates the letter c. AD 570.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment de lettre). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Letter addressed from one official to another (qualified with adelphotes: is it Apollos, the father of Dioscoros?). The subject of the letter is a peasant, taxed in the tax rolls for lands which are not his. The topoteretes Helladios already appears in P. Beauge II.16. cf. 6702…
[… 1 line lost …] …… Ἑλλάδιος ὁ τοποτηρητὴς τῆς Ἀνταίου ἔγραψέν μοι διὰ τοῦ γραμματηφόρου, ὡς τῆς ὑμετέρας ἀδελφότητος ἀπαιτούσης τὸν εἰρημένον γραμματηφόρον ἄνδρα φανερὸν χρυσίον ὑπὲρ ἀρουρῶν μὴ οὐσῶν ὑπʼ αὐτόν. καταξιώσατε οὖν φυλάξαι τὸ δίκαιον τῷ γραμματηφόρῳ διὰ τὴν κέλευσιν…
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