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Official letter from an Oxyrhynchite administrator to the village scribe of Sko, forwarding a copy of an application by the councillor Aurelius Philippos, made through his son Aurelius Sarapion alias Dionysios, offering to buy unproductive land put up for auction. The village scribe is ordered to check, at his own risk, whether the land belongs to the unproductive land allowed for sale.
Hypologos land was land classified as unproductive and taxed at reduced rates; the state sold such land to private buyers by public announcement (prokeryxis). The end of the letter is too damaged to translate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter concerning the Sale of Unproductive Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]κωμογραμματεῖ Σκώ. τοῦ ἐπενεχθέντος μοι βιβλιδίου ὑπὸ Αὐρηλίου Φιλίππου κοσμητεύσαντος ἐξηγητοῦ βουλευτοῦ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως διὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ Αὐρηλίου Σαραπίωνος τοῦ καὶ Διονυσίου […]διʼ οὗ ὑπέσχετο γῆν ἀπὸ ὑπολόγου εἰς προκήρυξιν μεταδοθεῖσαν τὸ ἀντίγραφον ἐπιστέλλεταί σοι, ὅ…
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