p.lond.5.1839
ὑμετέρᾳ ἀδελφότητι[…] […] οὐδέποτε ὑστέρησα δοῦναι τὰ δημόσιά μου[…] […]οἱ γεωργοί μου παρὰ τῶν αἰδεσίμων ἀπαιτητῶν […] […]τατο ἐμὲ πέμψαι τὰ ἐντάγια αὐτῇ ἀπαιτη[…] [… 3 lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36956
Letter concerning payment of public taxes and demands on the writer's farmers TM 36956Aphrodites Kome? (Antaiopolites)1. Hälfte VI
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Fragment of a letter addressed to a colleague ('your brotherliness'), in which the writer protests that he has never failed to pay his public taxes and mentions his farmers, tax collectors and demand notices. It dates to the first half of the 6th century AD, probably from Aphrodito in the Antaiopolite nome.
In English machine translation
[…] to your brotherliness […]
[…] I have never failed to pay my public taxes […]
[…] my farmers from the reverend collectors […]
[…] me to send the tax-demand notices (?) to her (?) […] collect […]
[… 3 lines lost …]
'Entagia' were official written orders or demand notes used in tax collection; the provenance from Aphrodito is uncertain.
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.