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Petition of a priest of Demeter and Kore to the strategos Soteles about a tax TM 316208Phys (Herakleopolites)51 - 49 v.Chr. (?)

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Petition from Kalathos, priest of Demeter and Kore at the Thesmophorion of the village of Phys, to Soteles, kinsman, strategos and official in charge of revenues. He complains that Horion is pressing him to pay a 'stater-tax' he has never paid before, and asks that Horion be ordered to stop, as with the Egyptian priests of the village, so he can continue his cultic duties.

In English machine translation

Year 2 = 78(?) Received(?) [...] (docket) To Soteles, kinsman and [strategos and in charge of the] revenues, from Kalathos, priest of Demeter [and K]ore and the other gods of the Thesmophorion in the village of Phys. Performing the liturgies blamelessly and offering the sacrifices and libations to the gods on behalf of you and your children, to whom I also continually pray to grant you favours, beauty, wealth, prosperity, fine children and success, so that you may be fortunate for all time, I, contrary to your piety, am being harassed by Horion regarding the stater-tax, which I have never paid before, he attempting before you, the greatest, an innovation [...]; I have been compelled to take refuge with you. I ask, if it seems good, that you write a note to Horion not to harass me regarding the stater-tax, just as in the case of the Egyptian priests in the village, so that I may be able to perform blamelessly for the gods the customary rites and the services that follow [...] [...]

The 'stateresmos' was apparently a levy reckoned in staters, whose exact nature is uncertain. The opening lines (regnal year and docket abbreviations) are only partly understood.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe eines Priesters an den Strategen Soteles). 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 · 51 - 49 v.Chr. (?) · Phys (Herakleopolites)

ἔτους β ο η κπαρα πρ χρ Σωτέλει συγγενεῖ καὶ στρατηγῶι καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν προσόδων παρὰ Καλάθου ἱερέως Δήμητρος καὶ Κόρης καὶ τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν τοῦ ἐν κώμηι Φῦς Θεσμοφορίου. ἀνεγκλήτως παρεχόμενος τὰς λειτουργίας καὶ τὰς θυσίας καὶ σπονδὰς ἀναφέρων τοῖς θεοῖς ὑπὲρ σοῦ καὶ τῶν τέκνων, οἷς κ…