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Letter from a centurion in charge of hastening the public grain shipment to Syros, acting strategos, ordering him to send at once the heirs of Apollonios, a dekaprotos of the Thmoisepho toparchy, so that the loading of grain is not delayed. From Oxyrhynchus.
The epeiktes was an official charged with speeding the collection and shipment (embole) of state grain; dekaprotoi were liturgical officials responsible for tax collection. A stationarius was a soldier on police or post duty.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of a Centurion). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]ας ἑκατόνταρχος ἐπείκτης δημοσίου σίτου Σύρῳ διαδεχομένῳ στρατηγίαν χαίρειν. ἐξαυτῆς λαβών μου τὰ γράμματα πέμψον τοὺς κληρονόμους Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ δεκαπρώτου τῆς Θμοισεφῶ τοπαρχίας, ἵνα μὴ ἐκ τῆς σῆς ἀμελείας ἐνέδρα περὶ τὴν ἐμβολὴν γένηται. ἔπεμψα δὲ εἰς τοῦτο τὸν στατιωνάριον…
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