Official letter to the exactor Heraklammon about liturgies and slave status TM 21011Herakleopolisca. 365

Fragmentary official document addressed to Heraklammon, exactor and councillor of Herakleopolis, around AD 365. It concerns people being assigned to liturgies (compulsory public services) whose status as slaves of a household appears to be disputed, mentioning Flavius Severianus, Terentius of clarissimus rank, and Herakleides the riparius.

In English machine translation

The exactor was the chief tax-collecting official of a city in late antiquity; the riparius was a local police official. The argument seems to be that persons of slave status should not be burdened with liturgies, but the gaps make this uncertain.

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