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Official instructions on collecting arrears of rents after the harvest TM 28152ArsinoitesII

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Fragment of an official letter or circular instructing subordinates to collect overdue rents of the current 21st regnal year once the new harvest is in. Debtors who pay the principal in good faith are promised remission of the penalty. From the Arsinoite nome, 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] […] […] then into […] […] new (?) in the granaries. But since for a long time […] […] payment, I do not think that they themselves will ask [to obtain any] postponement, especially now, when the new crops also offer us the best hopes. I therefore wish [you], once the crops have been brought in, to press on with the collection of the rents of the present 21st year of the Greatest [Emperor], [so that] this sum too may be paid in. And so that the debtors may readily comply with the payment, let them know [that], if they pay the principal in good faith, they will not now be charged the penalty. And you too may know that […] […] collectable of this category be paid in […] […] from then on […] […] you will watch over […] […] and thus […] […] their means […] […] having deposited […] […] grain […] […] cannot obtain […] […] send me safely (?) […] […] 24 […]

"Rents" (phoroi) likely refers to dues on public or state land. The emperor of year 21 is unnamed in the surviving text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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