Letter from Chairemon to Dorotheos about tax collection TM 33718OxyrhynchosIV

[recto] To my lord son Dorotheos, Chairemon. Make haste today to bring up to Psobthis the village headmen of Barousis, through the symmachos (messenger) or someone else, and send the sitologoi (grain collectors) responsible for the arrears of barley and those in charge of the tow (sippion) of Tampemou, bringing the tow and the anabolikon and the proteion, and the sitologoi of the barley. And make haste to get the solidus for the barley from those responsible and send it, and the money for the India tax, the principal together with the exchange charge, 40 myriads of denarii, total 5,120 myriads of denarii, and further the heaviest part of the whole levy, the gold and the annonae, and if they are doing their work, send what has been collected. Press the sitologoi to store the grain down to the last kernel, and those from Satyros. Remember everything in general. I pray for your health. [verso] Send the receipts for the flax of Tampemou and the entagia (payment orders) of Melas. To my lord son Dorotheos, Chairemon.