Letter February 10, 181 BC
Letter of Lysimachos to Leontiskos and associates, ordering them to pay to Krates the amount still owing on the rent of the orchard of Eirene
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Letter from Lysimachos ordering payment of rent arrears for the orchard of Eirene TM 43258181 BCE
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A letter from Lysimachos to Leontiskos and his partners ordering them to pay Krates at once the arrears on the year 23 rent for the orchard (paradeisos) of Eirene, so that he can take it to Krokodilopolis. If they fail, Krates is instructed to send them up. It is dated 10 February 181 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Lysimachos to Leontiskos and his partners, greetings.
As soon as you receive the letter, please pay immediately to Krates the arrears still owed by you toward the rent of year 23 for the orchard of Eirene, so that he may convey it to Krokodilopolis. If it turns out otherwise, we have ordered him to send you up.
Farewell. Year 24, Tybi 6.
[verso]
[…] 6
Of the orchard of Eirene.
To Leontiskos and his partners.
A paradeisos was a walled garden or orchard, here held on lease for a rent (phoros). The threat to "send you up" probably means sending the debtors to the authorities at Krokodilopolis, the nome capital.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter February 10, 181 BC). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.4.122
[r] Λυσίμαχος Λεοντίσκωι καὶ τοῖς μετόχοις χαίρειν. ἅμα τῶι λαβεῖν τὴν ἐπιστολὴν καλῶς ποιήσετε τὰ προσοφειλόμενα ἐν ὑμῖν πρὸς τὸν φόρον τοῦ κγ ἔτους τοῦ Εἰρήνης παραδείσου ἀποδόντες Κράτητι παραχρῆμα ὅπως παρακομίσηι εἰς Κροκοδίλων πόλιν. εἰ δʼ ἄλλως ἔσται συντετάχαμεν αὐτῶι ἐξα…