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Order to the exactor of the Oxyrhynchite nome on the weaving of linen clothing TM 33646Oxyrhynchites (?)Mitte IV

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Copy of an official letter from a high official named Nikon, perhaps the provincial governor, to the exactor (chief tax officer) of the Oxyrhynchite nome. Since the overseer of linen production, Ptolemaios, has gone to Alexandria, the exactor is to give help to a centurion and an official so that the weavers are forced to produce the clothing (a state levy) with faultless fabrics in the meantime.

In English machine translation

Copy. […]s Nikon to the exactor of the Oxyrhynchite nome, greetings. It has come to my knowledge that Ptolemaios, the overseer (epiktes) of the linen, has gone to Alexandria. Therefore, so that no delay may follow in the weaving of this same linen, see to it that the assistance assigned to the department is provided to Sarapion the centurion and Antonius the official, so that those responsible are compelled to make the clothing with unimpeachable fabrics, until the aforementioned Ptolemaios returns. For this reason I have sent the aforementioned official. I pray for your health.

The sender's title is lost; he is thought to be the praeses (governor). The 'clothing' (esthes) refers to the state requisition of garments, and the epiktes was the official who pressed for its delivery.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of a Praeses (?) to an Exactor). 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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p.oxy.12.1428

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte IV · Oxyrhynchites (?)

ἀντίγραφον. […]ς Νίκων ἐξάκτορι Ὀξρυγχίτου χαίρειν. ἦλθεν εἰς ἐμὴν γνῶσιν ὡς Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπείκτου τῆς ὀθόνης εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξάνδριαν ἀπαντήσαντος. ὑπὲρ τοῦ τοίνυν μὴ ἐνέδραν ἐπακολουθῆσαι περὶ τὴν ἐξυφὴν τὴς αὐτῆς ὀθόνης, φρόντισον τὴν ἀποτεταγμένην τῷ μέρει βοήθειαν παρασχεῖν Σαρ…