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Official letter from Nemesianos, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to the heirs of Philiskos, a former strategos of the Menelaite nome, instructing them to pay at once 212 drachmas 5 1/2 obols charged to Philiskos for interest on the price of property once owned by Athenodoros son of Pamphilos. Written at Oxyrhynchus on 27 December 181.
The strategos was the chief civil official of a nome; the sum seems to be a shortfall in revenues for which Philiskos was held liable during his term in office.
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 a Strategus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Νεμεσιανὸς στρατηγὸς Ὀξυρυγχίτου κληρονόμοις Φιλίσκου στρατηγήσαντος Μενελαίτου τοῖς φιλτάτοις χαίρειν. ὁ τοῦ Μενελαίτου στρατηγὸς ἐπέστειλέν μοι περὶ ἀπαιτήσεως δραχμῶν σιβ πεντωβόλου ἡμιωβελίου ὡς ἀναλημφθεισῶν ἐν τῷ Φιλίσκῳ ὑπὲρ λημμάτων κ ἔτους τόκου τιμῆς ὑπαρχόντων πρότερον…
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