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Letter to a master about grain received and payments of an allowance TM 36818Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VI

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A fragmentary 6th-century letter from Aphrodito in which the writer reports to his master that he received 100 artabas of grain on account of an allowance payment (rhoga), and describes travelling to Panopolis, where a magister instructed him not to pay out wine. He asks for written instructions, including about sending grain from the limes, and mentions the protokometes John son of Arsas.

In English machine translation

[…] by the present letter I write, doing obeisance to my master, […] I report that I received the 100 artabas of grain from his Clarity […] […] and I received from him your letter containing […] […] I receive on account of the allowance (rhoga), and the same […] brought […] […] the most illustrious man to Antaiopolis, and deposited it under (the authority of?) Aphrodite […] when I went up to Panopolis. Since he compelled me […] […] of the vicarius I went up to Panopolis, I found the magister […] I was instructed by his Clarity not to pay out wine […] of the protokometes John son of Arsas […] […] Eulogios (?) […] letters (?) […] […] I shall pay out, to see that I am not blamed by the same magister. […] order what seems good to you to be written to me, master; then instruct me […] to send grain from the frontier district (limes); and behold, 40 […] […] answer, and as the Lord lives, unless to the […] […] of Eulogios I would certainly have to spend time, and now unless quickly […] from lord John son of Arsas; and towards you […] […]

Rhoga is a payment or allowance in kind or money, and the verb rhogeuein means to pay it out. The protokometes was a village headman.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre). 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.cair.masp.1.67076

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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