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Letter from Simias to Dionysios about securing wheat for the royal treasury TM 644621unbekannt

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An official letter from Simias to Dionysios, forwarding a copy of a letter from the oikonomos Dositheos with a name-by-name list of wheat delivered. It instructs that the produce be secured until all dues to the royal treasury are paid, in connection with an imposed assessment (epibole) of land or rent.

In English machine translation

Simias to Dionysios, greeting. Dositheos the oikonomos has appended for us a copy of the letter written by him to you, under which is also registered the man-by-man list of the wheat brought in, so that [...] [does not] supply, from lower rents, toward the completion of the imposed assessment, the amounts [due] of the proportionate total, as he thinks that the produce to be collected from it must be secured until everything owed to the royal treasury has been paid in full. Take care therefore with greater attention that it is done accordingly. Farewell. Year 34, Pharmouthi 24.

The oikonomos was a Ptolemaic financial official; the epibole was a compulsory assignment of land or dues. The regnal year 34 points to a long Ptolemaic reign, but no exact date is given in the records.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Simias an Dionysios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

Σιμίας Διονυσίωι χαίρειν. Δωσίθεος ὁ οἰκονόμος ὑποτέταχεν ἡμῖν ἀντίγραφον τῆς πρὸς σὲ παρ’ αὐτοῦ γεγραμμένης ἐπιστολῆς, ὑφ’ ἣν κατακεχώρισται καὶ τὸ κατ’ ἄνδρα τοῦ προσηγμένου πυροῦ, ἵνα […] μὴ χορηγῆι ἐλασσόνων ἐκφορίων εἰς συμπλήρωσιν τῆς ἐπιβολῆς τὰ γινόμενα τοῦ αἱροῦντος κεφα…