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Circular to village heads ordering the collection of pigs for the army TM 21620Oxyrhynchos270

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An official circular from Calpurnius Horion, hypomnematographus, to village heads and public officials, announcing that the gymnasiarch Sarapion has been sent to collect pigs for the army by order of the prefect of Egypt. The villagers must bring the pigs with their owners to be weighed and paid for, and are threatened with punishment by the prefect for any delay. It dates to AD 270, from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

From Calpurnius Horion, the most excellent hypomnematographus. Sarapion, gymnasiarch, has been sent to collect from you, for the supplies (agora) being sent down for the most noble soldiers by order of my lord the prefect, pigs, as many as you may provide according to the quantity assigned to each village. Collect these at once from those who have them and bring them up together with their owners, to be weighed with the proper allowance, and you will receive the price from me upon joint valuation, knowing that if there is any delay in this matter you will be sent to the greatness of him (the prefect) to be punished as having obstructed the military supplies. To the comarchs and public officials of the villages listed below. […]

The hypomnematographus was a senior official in Alexandria; agora here means military supplies or provisioning rather than a market. The list of villages addressed is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notice to Comarchs). 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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p.oxy.61.4119

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 270 · Oxyrhynchos

παρὰ Καλπουρνίου Ὡρίωνος τοῦ κρατίστου ὑπομνηματογράφου. ἀπεστάλη Σαραπίων γυμνασίαρχος συναγαγεῖν παρʼ ὑμῖν εἰς τὴν καταπεμπομένην ἀγορὰν τοῖς γενναιοτάτοις στρατιώταις κατὰ κέλευσιν τοῦ κυρίου μου ἡγεμόνος ἐν χοίροις ὅσοις ἐὰν παράσχητε κατὰ τὴν τεταγμένην ἑκάστῃ κωμῃ ποσότητα.…