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A short private letter from Sarapion to his father Dionysios, sending 12 drachmas for his poll tax through a certain Kephalas and promising the remaining 4 drachmas via Amois. He also promises to send olives when the animals go out to pasture. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 1st century AD.
The laographia was the poll tax paid by adult male Egyptians; here 'my laographia' means the money for it. 'Grastis' is green fodder, so the animals going out to graze.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Sarapion to his Father). 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] Σαραπίων Διονυσίωι τῶι πατρὶ χαίρειν. ἀναγκαῖον ἔγνων διὰ γραπτοῦ σε ἀσπάσασθαι. κόμισαι διὰ Κεφαλᾶτος Πετεχῶντος Σαλβίου τὴν λαογραφίαν μου δραχμὰς ιβ. ἐὰν Ἀμόις παραγένηται, δώσω αὐτῶι τὰς ἄλλας δραχμὰς δ. ἐὰν τὰ κτήνη ἐξέρχηται ἐπὶ γράστιν, πέμψω σοι ἐλαίαν. ἔρρωσο. [v] πα…
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