Letter Concerning a Property Return
Letter from Ammonios to his father, Ammonios, concerning a property return and requesting notification of lambs born since the dispatch of the first return for sheep for the year
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20570
Letter from Ammonios to his father about lambs added since the sheep return TM 20570Oxyrhynchos54 CE
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A short letter from Ammonios to his father, also named Ammonios, asking him to send written notes on the number of sheep, specifically the lambs born since the first registration of the flock. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 23 July AD 54, in the reign of Claudius.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Ammonios to Ammonios his father, greetings.
Please write to me in notes the account of the sheep, what increase you have had from lambing beyond the first registration […] account […]. Farewell.
Year 14 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Epeiph 29.
[verso]
To Ammonios his father.
The 'first registration' (apographe) refers to the annual declaration of livestock to the authorities; newborn lambs had to be reported in a supplementary return. The lines after the mention of the registration are damaged.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter Concerning a Property Return). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.2.297
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