p.oxy.31.2575
ἀρχεφόδωι Ταρουθίνου ἐποικίου. πέμψον Ἀνδρόμαχον καὶ Παοῦν γερδίους …[…]…τι[…] …[…]υπλουτο[…]…να…δ[…]… ἐντυχόντων τελωνῶν βαφικῆς
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 26935
Order to arrest two weavers at the request of dyeing-tax farmers TM 26935OxyrhynchitesII - III
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An order to arrest addressed to the chief of police of the hamlet of Tarouthinos, instructing him to send up two weavers, Andromachos and Paous. The summons was issued following a petition by the collectors of the tax on dyeing. It comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome and dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
To the chief of police of the hamlet of Tarouthinos. Send up Andromachos and Paous, weavers, […] […] […] on the petition of the farmers of the dyeing tax.
The archephodos was a village police chief. The telonai of the baphike were tax farmers who collected the levy on dyeing, so the weavers were probably in dispute over that tax.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order to Arrest). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.