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Letter warning against the tax collectors and asking for care of a house TM 27154unbekanntII - III

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Private letter, partly lost at the beginning, in which the writer reports that a tax collector (praktor) seized him and took the key of Lucilla's house while petitions were being discussed. He asks the recipient to watch over the house and its contents and to give nothing to a collector coming on behalf of the house of Apianos, promising to arrive by the Amesysia festival.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] … […] … thanks you for everything [and when he comes] to you he will repay you everything. [Know that] while we were still discussing the petitions, the collector (praktor) seized me and exacted from me the key of the house of Lucilla. [I urge you] therefore, look after the house [until] I arrive, and everything it has in the [courtyard (?)] and the weights (?) and the cushions which [it has in the] hall (exedra). If Horigenes [the man from the] agoranomos comes to you, learn, I wish, that the collector of the house of Apianos [will come] on account of the [cushions]; [but I want] you to give him nothing; for he got [those from] the house in Phobou, and one must [be on guard] against him. By the [festival of the] Amesysia [I will come] to you. Greet Kyrilla […] [and] all your people from me, and […]ris and her children. [I pray for your] health.

A praktor was an official charged with exacting taxes or debts. The Amesysia was an Egyptian festival of Isis; many restorations at line beginnings are the editor's.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Warnung vor den Praktoren). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…]… σοι παντὶ εὐχαριστεῖ καὶ ἐλθὼν πρός σε ἀνταποδώσει σοι τὰ πάντα. ἴσθι ὅτι ἡμῶν διαλεγομένων ἔτι περὶ τῶν βιβλιδίωνσυνέσχε με ὁ πράκτωρ καὶ ἐξέπραξέ με τὴν κλεῖδα τῆς οἰκίας Λουκίλλης παρακαλῶ οὖν πρόσεχε τῇ οἰκίᾳ, ἕως ἂν παραγένωμαι, καὶ ὅσα ἔχει ἐν τῷ…