Summary Copy of Reports to a Strategos
Document summarizing reports from village officials of the Herakleidou meris to Herakleides, strategos of the same meris, who had asked information about a man.
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Report of village scribes to the strategos Herakleides on a man without property TM 40819Unknown place, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 21, 149 A.D.
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A summary copy of a reply from the village scribes (or, where there were none, the elders acting for them) of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome to the strategos Herakleides. Answering his written inquiry about a certain man, they state that he has neither property nor a home in the nome. Dated 21 January AD 149.
In English machine translation
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To Herakleides, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from the village scribes of the division, and, for villages where there are none, the elders performing the duties.
With regard to the letter sent to us by you, of which this is a copy (and the copy of the aforementioned letter was appended, after which the letter followed thus, up to this point),
in reply to it we declare that the aforementioned man has neither property nor a hearth in the nome.
Year 12, Tybi 26.
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The copyist abbreviated the document, noting in place of the quoted letter that its copy was appended. 'Poros' means taxable means or property; 'ephestion' (hearth) means a fixed domicile.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Summary Copy of Reports to a Strategos). 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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[r,1] Ἡρακλείδῃ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοείτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ τῶν τῆς μερίδος κωμογραμματέων, ὧν δὲ κωμῶν μή εἰσι, πρεσβυτέρων διεπόντων τὰς τάξεις. πρὸς τὸ ἐπισταλὲν ἡμῖν ὑπό σου ἐπίσταλμα οὗ ἐστιν ἀντίγραφον --καὶ ὑπετάγη τοῦ προκειμένου ἐπιστάλματος τὸ ἀντίγραφον μεθʼ ὃ ἐπηνέχθ…