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Report to Herakleides on tax collection and grain loading at Phenebythis and Psonis TM 24963OxyrhynchosI

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An official letter to Herakleides from a subordinate reporting on the collection of dues, probably of grain, at Phenebythis and Psonis. The tax collectors had failed to press suspect debtors, so the writer detained their secretary, and he also reports cargoes loaded by Doras and Ammonios and donkey transport from Bompae to Psonis. It dates to the 1st century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[recto] Greetings, my lord Herakleides. Since I left Phenebythis the collectors have made no progress with what they handed over to me at Psonis, for they have demanded payment from none of the suspect persons, and they made the excuse that their assistants had not joined them in collecting. Doras son of Pibekis from the Prosopite (nome), (with a cargo?) of 41(?) ... 5,000(?), ⟦and to⟧ loaded today from Bompae, and I had the donkeys make three trips from Bombae to Psonis. Ammonios son of Panetbeus, who was sent to Psonis, (with a cargo?) of 3,014(?) artabas, loaded today at the farmstead of the overseer at Thompneei. Of necessity I detained one of the collectors of Phenebythis, since he acts as their secretary, so that while in Phenebythis I may see the account of the suspect persons and demand payment. I pray for your health. Epeiph 5. [verso] To Herakleides […]

The sequences 'οτων μα Εϛ' and 'ο των (ἀρταβ) Γιδ' are obscure in the edition; the figures given for the cargoes are uncertain. 'Suspect persons' (hypoptoi) probably refers to debtors suspected of defaulting or concealing liability.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Letter). 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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p.oxy.49.3469

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · I · Oxyrhynchos

[r] χαίροις κύριέ μου Ἡρακλείδη. ἐξ ὅτου ἀπέστην τῆς Φενεβύθεως οἱ πράκτορες οὐ προέκοψαν ἐξ ὧν μοι μετέδοσαν ἐν Ψώνει, οὐδένα γὰρ τῶν ὑπόπτων ἀπῄτησαν, προεφασίσαντο δὲ καὶ τοὺς βοηθοὺς μὴ συναπῃτηκέναι αὐτοῖς. ὁ ἀπὸ τοῦ Προσωπείτου Δωρᾶς Πιβήκιος οτων μα Εϛ ἐνεβάλετο ἐκ Βομπαὴ …