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Royal scribe Dorion forwards prefect Barbarus' letter on revenue arrears TM 23318Herakleopolis15 - 14 v.Chr.

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Official covering letter from Dorion, royal scribe of the Herakleopolite nome, to the district scribes (topogrammateis), forwarding a copy of a revenue-office document and a letter of the prefect Barbarus about collecting arrears of a certain category of revenue going back to Year 3 of Augustus. Written in Year 16 of Caesar (15/14 BC) at Herakleopolis.

In English machine translation

[Dorion, royal scribe, to the] topogrammateis of the nome, greetings. Of the document of the revenue office communicated [to me] […] […] the copy is appended below, to which is also appended the copy of the letter written by […] Barbarus the prefect, and to them […] […] of the category we have demanded still from earlier up to the third year of Caesar, taking care that nothing remain unknown. Year 16 of Caesar, […] […] to Dorion, greetings. Of the letter sent to us by Barbarus the copy is appended below, which […] customarily demanded at other times from the category […] […] so that the collection may be made in accordance with it. Year 16 of Caesar, […]

Barbarus is the prefect of Egypt Publius Rubrius Barbarus; 'Caesar' is Augustus. A topogrammateus was the scribe of a district (toparchy) within the nome.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Correspondence). 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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bgu.16.2595

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 15 - 14 v.Chr. · Herakleopolis

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