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Letter from Metrodoros to Apollonios about arrears before the audit TM 2487Arsinoites5. März 213 v.Chr.

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A letter from the official Metrodoros to Apollonios urging him to collect overdue payments for year 9 quickly so that all funds reach the bank and are transferred to Krokodilopolis before Metrodoros sails down for the financial audit. It was written in the Arsinoite nome in 213 BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] Metrodoros to Apollonios, greeting. Since the arrears for year 9 have been brought in rather slowly, and we have been written to to sail down for the audit, make every effort during the month of Tybi that no […] but that as soon as the 4th has passed all the money will have fallen due to the bank and be delivered to the next one (?) in Krokodilopolis, so that after conferring with you we may sail down. For when this has happened, and you too […] and have zealously given proof, you will obtain the appropriate […]. For it is in the details that the whole is preserved. Farewell. Year 9, which is for the revenues year 10, Tybi 22. [verso] […] year 10, Tybi 28. Metrodoros […] to come […] to Apollonios

The date distinguishes regnal year 9 from revenue year 10, reflecting the Ptolemaic financial year that ran ahead of the regnal count. The dialogismos was an official audit or review of accounts.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Metrodoros 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 5. März 213 v.Chr. · Arsinoites

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