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Letter from Hermaios to the strategos Apollonios about inspecting unproductive land TM 19597Hermopolis (?)

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Letter from Hermaios to Apollonios, the strategos (district governor), about the inspection of public and private land registered as unproductive. Hermaios sends a list of respectable local men and asks Apollonios to order them, together with the city secretary, to join him so the boundary surveyors are not misled.

In English machine translation

Hermaios to Apollonios, most honoured, greetings. Having reckoned that it would be best, for the examination of the plots reported to have been included in the surveys of the unproductive land (hypologos), both public and private, that respectable local men be taken along as well, so that the boundary-markers (?) may not be led astray in all those [...] of the owners of the private land, I have copied out their names and sent them to you, lord, so that, if you see fit, you may order them to be notified and the persons to come immediately to me, together with the secretary of the metropolis. I pray for your health, my lord. [verso] To Apollonios, strategos.

Hypologos is land written off as unproductive and excluded from full taxation. Apollonios is presumably the well-known strategos of the Apollonopolites-Heptakomias in the early 2nd century AD, though no date is given in the records.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief (I) des Hermaios an Apollonios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Hermopolis (?)

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