Letter of Euphronius to Milon
Letter to Milon to ask him to have a list of payments and grain deliveries made by the trapezitai and thesauros-officials of the temples.
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Letter from Euphronios to Milon about temple revenue accounts at Apollonopolis TM 5844Diospolis Magna (Thebes)222 B.C.
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A letter from the official Euphronios to Milon instructing him to obtain from the temple bankers and granary officials a year-by-year, month-by-month statement of money and grain received by the temple at Apollonopolis the Great (Edfu), so that the accounts can be sent to the city (Alexandria). It is dated Year 25, Pauni 24, in 222 BC.
In English machine translation
Euphronios to Milon, greetings. As soon as you read this letter, obtain from the bankers in the temples the sums that have fallen due to the temple in Apollonopolis the Great, and likewise of the grain measured in, from those in charge of the granaries, from the very earliest time up to the present, month by month and year by year, and let it be broken down according to the years in which it fell due; and having done this carefully, send it to us in the time of the successors (?), so that we are not prevented on this account from sending down to the city the accounts of the rest, which are ready. The sums that fell due are through Th[…]os and Andron, so that you may check them.
Farewell. Year 25, Pauni 24.
[verso]
To Milon.
Milon was a royal official (praktor) concerned with temple revenues in the Thebaid; the papyrus belongs to the Elephantine archive of Milon. The phrase 'epi ton diadochon' is uncertain, possibly referring to the officials' successors or the next stage of transmission.'
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Euphronius to Milon). 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] Εὐφρόνιος Μίλωνι χαίρειν. ὡς ἂν ἀναγνῶις τὴν ἐπιστολήν, ἐπιλαβὼν παρὰ τῶν τραπεζιτῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς τὰ πεπτωκότα εἰς τὸ ἐν Ἀπόλλωνος πόλει τῆι μεγάληι ἱερὸν ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τοῦ εἰσμεμετρημένου σίτου παρὰ τῶν πρὸς τοῖς θησαυροῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ πρωτίστου χρόνου ἕως τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος κατ…