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Letter from Apollonios to the toparch Amenneus about the grain report TM 2483Arsinoites28. Juni 214 v.Chr.

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An official letter from Apollonios, evidently a senior financial administrator, to the toparch Amenneus in the Arsinoite nome, 214 BC. He orders Amenneus to come to Krokodilopolis on the 21st with the record of grain delivered to the royal granary, so that the report on measured grain can be sent off, and warns that negligence will be treated as an offence against the state.

In English machine translation

[recto] Apollonios to Amenneus, greeting. We shall send off the report of the measured grain on the 21st. So join us in Krokodilopolis on that day, bringing the record of what has been delivered through you to the royal granary up to the 2nd(?). And take care, not as a side matter, that this amount be as large as possible. For we shall treat those who have been negligent in any way in these matters as having wronged the interests of the administration. See to it that the dispatch of the report is not held up on your account. Farewell. Year 8, Pachon 16. [verso] To the toparch Amenneus. Concerning the report.

The prosangelma was a formal report forwarded to higher authorities, here on grain measured into the royal granaries. The date limit after 'up to the' is only partly legible.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Apollonios an den Toparchen Ammeneus). 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 · 28. Juni 214 v.Chr. · Arsinoites

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