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Letter from Hermaios to the strategos Apollonios about a stalled land survey TM 19598Hermopolis (?)114 - 115

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A letter from Hermaios to the strategos Apollonios reporting that a land survey is stalled because the boundary-marker Petemenekysis has gone to Apollonios. Hermaios asks that the boundary-marker and the scribe of the metropolis be sent at once so that the remeasurement of an 11-aroura basin and the inspection of the metropolis's unproductive land can proceed.

In English machine translation

Hermaios to the most honoured Apollonios, greetings. They say that Petemenekysis, the boundary-marker, has gone up to you, and we are sitting idle waiting for him, in the remeasurement of a basin of 11 arouras and adjoining it the uncultivated land (hypologos) of the metropolis. An inspection is required of the hypologos of the 15th year and 17th year of the metropolis, and its scribe and the boundary-marker. So if you think fit, lord, send them to us at once, since we are sitting in the field. The gods willing, we will greet you tomorrow. I pray for your health, my lord. [verso] To Apollonios, strategos

Hypologos denotes land written off as unproductive and excluded from normal taxation; a koite is a basin of land within the irrigation system. The horiodeiktes was the official who marked out field boundaries.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief (II) 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 · 114 - 115 · Hermopolis (?)

[r] Ἑρμαῖος Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. Πετεμενεκῦσιν τὸν ὁριοδείκτην φασὶν ἀναβεβηκέναι πρὸς σὲ καὶ καθήμεθα ἀργοὶ αὐτὸν ἐκδεχόμενοι ἐν ἀναμετρήσει κοίτης ἀρουρῶν ια καὶ πρὸς ὁμορούσης ὑπολόγωι τῆς μητροπόλεως. ζητεῖται ἐπίσκεψις ὑπολόγου ιε ἔτους καὶ ιζ ἔτους μητροπόλεως…