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Letter from Iulianus to Pasion about completing census declaration sheets TM 27608Philadelphia (Arsinoites)II

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A business letter from Iulianus to Pasion, whom he calls brother, sending 8 drachmas and glued sheets of census declarations (for a village of the Themistos division and the Hellenion quarter of the metropolis) and asking him to complete them promptly. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Iulianus to Pasion his brother, greetings. Receive from the one delivering the letter to you 8 drachmas and sheets of the census declaration of the village of Psentrepais (?) of the Themistos division and in the metropolis in the Hellenion quarter. Please, then, make haste to complete them. And the […] […] [verso] […] … […] deliver

Kollemata are sheets glued together into a roll; here they appear to be parts of census (apographe) declarations. 'Brother' may be a form of address rather than kinship.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Geschäftsbrief). 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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bgu.7.1677

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

[r] Ἰουλιανὸς Πασίωνι τῶι ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν. κόμισαι παρὰ τοῦ ἀναδιδόντος σοι τὸ ἐπιστόλιον δραχμὰς η καὶ κολλήματα ἀπογραφῆς κώμης Ψεντρεπάει τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος καὶ περὶ τὴν μητρόπολιν ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ἑλληνίου. εὖ οὖν ποιήσεις σπουδάσας ἀπαρτίσασθαι αὐτά. τὸ δὲ [… ? lines lost …] [v…