Report to the epistrategos on a mistaken nomination for the sitologia TM 24968OxyrhynchosI

A communication to the epistrategos Quintus Sanquinius Maximus from Eudaimon, connected with the tax-collector Marcus Antonius Spendon, reporting that a poor and unsuitable man, Belles son of Patermouthis, was mistakenly nominated for the grain-collecting office in the Oxyrhynchite nome instead of the wealthy Belles son of Dionysios, both of the village of Takona. It dates to the 1st century AD.

In English machine translation

The sitologia was a compulsory public office collecting state grain, assigned to men of sufficient property, hence the concern with wealth. The relation of Eudaimon to Marcus Antonius Spendon (slave, freedman or agent) is not stated in the Greek genitive.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Communication to an Epistrategus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.