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Letter from Diogenes to his assistants Papnuthis and Dorotheos about linen and wages TM 22498Oxyrhynchosca. 376 (?)

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A letter from Diogenes to his assistants Papnuthis and Dorotheos ordering them to send linen owed to the offices of the catholicus and the magistrate to the city at once, because a decadarch is pressing him, and to have villagers pay the wages of the messenger Kopreas. The back carries an account of payments in solidi to a landowner and an official. It comes from Oxyrhynchus, around AD 376.

In English machine translation

[recto, fragment A] Diogenes to Papnuthis and Dorotheos, assistants, greetings. The very hour you receive my letter, send the linen (?) of the office of the catholicus and of the magistrate to the city today; for I am being greatly troubled by Serenos the decadarch. And make those from the village pay Kopreas the messenger his wages […] […] [recto, fragment B] and let him not allow the owner of the she-ass to detain him until I have heard about the matter. Farewell. [verso] […] To the landowner, through Kopreas the messenger, 10 solidi; to the landowner on account of Eulogios, 4 solidi; to the commentariensis, 3 solidi; to the landowner through Theognostos, 1 solidus; […]

The 'symmachos' was a courier or messenger, and the 'commentariensis' a clerical official; 'linen' depends on a restoration of sippion. Papnuthis and Dorotheos belong to a known archive of tax collectors' assistants.'

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Diogenes to Papnuthis and Dorotheus). 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.48.3416

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 376 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

[r,FrA] Διογένης Παπνουτίῳ καὶ Δωροθέῳ βοηθοῖς χαίρειν. αὐτῆς ὥρας δεξάμενός μου τὰ γράμματα τὸ σιππίον τῆς καθολικότητος καὶ τῆς μαγιστρότητος ἀπόστειλον ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐν τῇ σήμερον· πάνυ γὰρ ἐνοχλοῦμαι ὑπὸ Σερήνου τοῦ δεκαδάρχου. καὶ ποίησον τοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς κώμης πληρῶσαι Κοπρέαν …