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A short business letter from Palamedes and Posidonios to their friend Herakleides, informing him of the sums he has been charged for labour by groups of workmen over several months. It ends with a request that a public announcement be made about the poll tax (laographia), as the writers are leaving the next day. It dates to the 1st or 2nd century AD.
The figures in the account lines are abbreviated and partly obscure, so their arithmetic is uncertain. Laographia is the poll tax, or the census on which it was based.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Public accounts, tax - lists, land - registers etc.). 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] Παλαμήδης καὶ Ποσιδώνιος Ἡρακλείδῃ τῷ φιλ χαίρειν γιγνώσκειν σε θέλομεν ὅτι παρεγράφης ὑπὲρ ἐργατείας Φαῶφι Ἁθὺρ ἀνδρῶν κ ἀνὰ δραχμὰς νη τριώβολον δραχμὰς Αρο αἱροῦσαι η ρ χ δραχμαὶ λθ γίνονται ἀπὸ Ασθ αἱ ἐπιβάλλουσαι δραχμαὶ ϡμϛ καὶ ὁμοίως ἀνδρῶν ϛ ἀνὰ δραχμὰς ν δραχμὰς τ αἱ…
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