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Letter of the magistrates of Hermopolis on reducing gymnasiarchy expenses TM 21674Hermopolis113 - 117
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A letter from the magistrates of Hermopolis to the epistrategos Felix Claudius Vindex about reducing the costs of the gymnasiarchy, following an order of the prefect Rutilius Lupus so that men appointed gymnasiarch would accept the office more willingly. The surviving fragments list items such as anointing oil, the baths and lamp-lighting, with former and reduced sums in drachmas.
In English machine translation
[1, fragment A]
To Felix Claudius Vindex, the most excellent epistrategos, from the magistrates of Hermoupolis. Since the most excellent prefect Rutilius Lupus ordered that most of the expenses of the gymnasiarchy be reduced, so that those appointed might more willingly undertake the expense […], and since you publicly permitted those expenses which could be reduced, and these […] those now about to serve as gymnasiarchs […] oil for anointing and the bath and what is customarily given for […] from the gymnasium to the public mound […] lighting of lamps, which the […] according to the gymnasiarchs […] as is proper, that the greater part of those by […] be reduced […] becoming less […] other need he used to give […]
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[1, fragment B]
[…] 60 drachmas, instead of which […] drachmas are sufficient […]
[…] 360 drachmas, of musicians (?) […]
[…] as curator […]
[…] of the temple-wardenship not […]
[…] 300 (?) drachmas […] so-called […]
[…] sufficient 3 (?) drachmas […] remaining […] drachmas […]
[…] remaining 260 drachmas, and by the […]
[…] 1,000 drachmas, which […]
[…] by the […]
[2]
[…] ⟦and […]⟧ […]
[…] instead of which 4 (?) talents […]
[…]
[…] gymnasium […]
[…]
[…]
[… lines lost …]
The gymnasiarchy was a costly civic liturgy whose holder paid for oil and the running of the gymnasium and baths. Fragment B appears to list old charges against the reduced amounts deemed sufficient.
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 the Magistrates of Hermopolis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.amh.2.70
[1,FrA] Φήλικι Κλαυδίωι Οὐίνδικι τῶι κρατίστωι ἐπιστρατήγωι παρὰ ἀρχόντων Ἑρμουπόλεως. τοῦ κρατίστου ἡγεμόνος ῬουτιλίουΛούπου κελεύσαντος συσταλῆναι τὰ πολλὰ τῶν ἀναλωμάτων τῆς γυμνασιαρχίας ἵνα οἱ καθιστανόμενοι προθυμότερον ὑπομένωσι τὸ ἀνάλωμα […] καὶ σοῦ δημοσίαι ἐπιτρέψαντος…