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Letter from Ioannakis to Senouthios against a wool requisition for cloaks TM 244114Hermopolites, Ägyptenca. 643 - 644

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A letter from Ioannakis to Senouthios, a high official (chartularius and anystes) in the Hermopolite nome, around AD 643-644. Ioannakis complains that people from the village of Sinkere, despite earlier orders, have come to demand wool for gonachia cloaks from his farmer, and asks Senouthios to stop them.

In English machine translation

[recto] † On another occasion too I appealed to your brotherly lordship on behalf of your farmer from Sinkere, and you instructed the people from Sinkere that no one should pass through him. Until now they have not passed through him. But today, which is the fifth day of the week, they came to his place and want to demand wool from him on account of the gonachia (cloaks). I therefore ask you to order the arrangement befitting you, that they not come to him, and to instruct them not to harass him in future. Simply nothing remains in their village. Besides, it is not right to make the one who sincerely does obeisance to you suffer misfortune at their hands, so that no one should pass through him for any matter whatsoever […] […] […] [verso] To my God-protected lord † and brother † Senouthios, most illustrious chartularius and anystes † Ioannakis † †

Gonachia were a type of cloak or garment, here apparently levied as a requisition in wool. The anystes was a fiscal official responsible for collecting levies in this period.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ioannakis a Senouthios anystes. Contro la requisizione di lana per i gonachia). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 643 - 644 · Hermopolites, Ägypten

[r] † καὶ ἄλλοτε παρεκάλεσα τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀδελφικὴν δεσποτείαν χάριν τοῦ ὑμετέρου γεωργοῦ ἀπὸ Σιγκερὴ καὶ παρηγγείλατε τοῖς ἀπὸ Σιγκερὴ ὅτι μηδείς παρέλθῃ διʼ αὐτοῦ. ἔως ἄρτι οὐ παρῆλθον διʼ αὐτοῦ. σήμερον οὖν ἥτις ἐστὶν πέμπτη τῆς ἑβδομάδος ἐλθόντες εἰς τὸ μέρος αὐτοῦ θέλουσιν ἀπ…