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Business letter about tax posts, debts and an audit by Iberos TM 22529Oxyrhynchosca. 26 - 28 (?)

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A fragmentary business letter, probably from Oxyrhynchus around AD 26-28, from an official or agent to an associate about debts, hides, tax collection posts, a registration to be completed before a festival, and news that scribes are being detained while an official named Iberos audits the books.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] [… lines lost …] […] … […] […] … six (?) […] […] 4, total 38 drachmas, remainder 36 drachmas 4 obols … […] … to receive over (?) […] […] and he said […] […] … having received from the house […] … of his son […] … and the body […] … human (affairs) […] the Jew […] and his brother [Column 2] […] … hay […] … of Heraklas […] … and search where […]apianos, so that he may not be idle, and instruct […] drachmas, he should demand from the son of Narkissos […] … is owed to him […]. […] hides (?) […] … 2 hides and […] … goat hides … as for the house […] … receive […] and the […] through the former strategos of the Oasis … […] … here for two days and … […] … come in. If you wish to come into the collectorship with Chaireas, come in; but if not, take a toparchy and when you have finished, come in. Before the […] festival of the olyra-threshing (?) one must hurry to complete the registration. For from the 25th (?) […] the registration takes place. Tell Pausirion the … to demand 8 drachmas from Komon the wine-seller, unless he has paid them to the house. Farewell. Afterwards I received Diogenes' supplementary testimony. I greatly blame the sword-bearers for not escorting me to Dikomia. I wrote to give … […] the schedule of the guarantees of the 12th year. We learn from those sailing up that the scribes of the Lower Country who sailed down earlier are being detained because Iberos himself is going through the books, especially the deficits of the three-year period, for which reason I fear that I too may be detained there a long time. I received the 2 sheets of papyrus. I rejoice greatly that I am about to sail down, and that nothing is going as I would wish regarding the Diospolite affairs. Therefore do not you either […] ….

Iberos is probably the Prefect of Egypt (Hiberus), who audited administrative records. The phrase about Diospolite affairs is ambiguous; it may mean the writer has nothing to his satisfaction there.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Business Letter). 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.oxy.55.3807

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 26 - 28 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

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