Prefects' decisions on the building and supervision of a bath at Hermopolis TM 21671Hermopolis

In the tenth year of Trajan Caesar the lord, Phamenoth 30. When a report had been read concerning expenditure of 16 talents on the bath being newly built and on the street, and Herakleides the strategos had added that other sums had been spent in the meantime, Vibius Maximus said: "There was assigned to the city from Theon 50 talents, and from the property of the woman gymnasiarch, I think, another 20. Let it be repaid from the sums assigned to the city." Herakleides: "From whose property and whose?" Vibius Maximus: "You have it in my minutes." Copy of a letter. Sulpicius Similis to Herakleides, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, greetings. Herodes son of Dionysios petitioned me, saying that those appointed with him as superintendents of the bath are unreliable and do not carry out their superintendence properly. If therefore they are unreliable, you will send me the names of other overseers, and concerning the revenues of the city you will investigate and inform me. I pray for your health. Year 10 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus […]