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Letter with news of officials and a request for fish TM 36081unbekanntVII

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A fragmentary 7th-century letter, probably from Antinoopolis, reporting local administrative news: demands on a surveyor and a tax official, the awaited arrival of officials of a new dux, and the death of the advocate Nonnos son of Epiphanios. The writer also begs the recipients to send him some fish, since the local fishermen sent their whole catch to the count.

In English machine translation

[…] […] […] already been made known […] concerning the superintendence (epistasia) of […] you having taken charge from the eighth of the month. And since I remember (?) […] all of you […] from me on account of Christodoros the surveyor, and you asked to demand from him the solidus which he is accustomed to give to the pagarchs, and also to demand from Mouses, one of the kephalaiotai, the jars of honey and of salted fish, since he needs them. But up to today the common landowner has not written. I expect today a letter from his Magnificence, that is Choiak 11. No word was given to the lord Dionysios nor to the lord Phoibammon the cancellarius, and as word of John […]. The one expected to come and administer the office of the new dux is also the master diatagmatarios. For this man who has now come is his adiobantes. Besides what you have heard, Nonnos the scholastikos, the son of Epiphanios, has died; and he was carried out (for burial) from the departure of the diatagmatarios, that is from the eighth. If anything is written here, I will inform you. And for God's sake send me a little fish, either for keeping (?) or for the frying pan, since I cannot find any here. For the fishermen here have sent everything to the count at Antinoou. Menas asks me to write to you about his shirt and […] […]

The diatagmatarios and adiobantes were subordinate officials in the staff of the dux; the 'common landowner' (geouchos) is probably a great estate holder addressed as 'his Magnificence'. Place is inferred from the reference to Antinoou and the publication, not stated in the records.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). 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 · VII

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