Letter of the strategos Aurelius Kallimachos to former sitologoi TM 21663Hermopolis176 - 179

Copy of a letter from Aurelius Kallimachos, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, to several former sitologoi (granary officials) of a village. It refers to items reported by the nome's eklogistes (accounting official) which the prefect Titus Pactumeius Magnus, at his recent assize, ordered to be collected within a fixed deadline. The rest of the text is badly damaged.

In English machine translation

The sitologoi were village officials responsible for state granaries; the 'dialogismos' was the prefect's judicial and financial assize. The prefect's name is partly restored from the surviving 'Magnus'.

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