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A letter from Christophoros to George, count and administrator of a great estate (the 'glorious house') at Oxyrhynchus, in the 6th or 7th century AD. He asks George to make the people of three places pay his steward Joseph, who has received nothing so far and needs the money to pay the public taxes owed to the estate.
The 'glorious house' is the large estate, probably of the Apion family, in whose service both men worked; the first place name is partly lost. The steward (pronoetes) managed estate property and collected dues.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Christopher to George). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Cf. P.Oxy. XVI 1844. It is clear that the three places here named were all included in the domains of the 'honourable house' in whose service these correspondents stood. Line 8 implies that George occupied a high position on its staff.
[r] † καθὼς καὶ κατὰ πρόσωπον παρεκάλεσα τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀδελφικὴν μεγαλοπρέπειαν ἐν τῷ ἐνδόξῳ οἴκῳ ἕνεκεν τῶν ἀπὸ Ἀκ[…]… καὶ Κλαυδιανοῦ καὶ Κευώθεως, ἵνα τούτους παρασκευάσῃ πληρῶσαι Ἰωσὴφ τὸν εὐλαβέστατόν μου προνοητήν, ὅπως καὶ αὐτὸς εὕρῃ δοῦναι τὰ ἐπιβεβλημένα αὐτῷ δημόσια ἐν τῷ…
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