Memorandum ordering Gerontios to exact arrears from Herakleopolite landowners TM 35453Herakleopolites (?)spätes V - VI

Fragmentary official memorandum (commonitorium) addressed to a certain Gerontios, ordering him to go to the city of the Herakleopolites and use every coercion, even torture, to extract the gold still owed by landowners, including arrears for freight charges and revenues of the lord or imperial estate. It dates to the late 5th or 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

A commonitorium was a written instruction from a superior to a subordinate official. 'Despotic revenues' may refer to revenues due to the emperor or to an estate owner.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order to an Official). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.