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A short official letter from Metrodoros to Apollonios announcing that he will come to the village of Oxyrhyncha on the 26th for the auction of tax-farming contracts and the setting of assessments, and asking Apollonios to assemble the relevant groups there. It dates to 213 BC in the Arsinoite nome.
The ōnai are tax-farming contracts auctioned to bidders; the ethnē are probably occupational groups liable to the taxes. The letter is dated by both the regnal year (9) and the financial 'revenue' year (10).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Metrodor an Apollonios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Μητρόδωρος Ἀπολλωνίωι χαίρειν. παρεσόμεθα πρὸς τὴν πρᾶσιν τῶν ὠνῶν καὶ τὰς συντάξεις τῆι κϛ …[…]…[…] ἅμα τῆι ἡμέραι εἰς Ὀξύρυγχα. συνάγαγε οὖν τὰ ἔθνη εἰς τὴν προγεγραμμένην κώμην τῆικϛ, ὅπως μὴ κωλυώμεθα τὰς συντάξεις ποιεῖσθαι. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους θ, ὡς δʼ αἱ πρόσοδοι ἔτους ι Τῦβ…
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