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Prefect's letters to the strategos on grain deficits of the sitologoi TM 9166Karanis? (Arsinoites)

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Fragments of copied official letters from a register roll, including a letter of the prefect Tineius Demetrius to Dioskoros, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, about grain collectors (sitologoi) whose measured grain for shipment from Karanis fell short. Other parts mention people who fled (anachoresis) and a former strategos.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] […] the appointment (?) of Ammo[…] having made […] of the strategia not […] their daring […] by both […] and of those […] of Alexander the […] ordered by […] flight (anachoresis) […] Belleius (?) […] […] [Column 2, fragment 1] […] together with Pasion and his associates and those who are said truthfully to have been shown to have fled, whose names are declared in the petition. I pray for your health. Year 30, Mesore 9. Tineius Demetrius to Dioskoros, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, division of Herakleides, greetings. The sitologoi, with whom it is shown that there was a deficit at the measuring out made for your shipment down (to the river) from Karanis, 29 […] […] [Column 2, fragment 2] […] thirty days […] to exact […] and also those who have further misused (?) the fixed penalty, if the deficient measure is more than each of the two of the amount established per granary, having examined it together with the royal scribe. The new administration has taken place; if the private persons have agreed to whatever you do, inform me, so that I may also settle what is necessary concerning the strategos before you. I wish you good health. Year 30, Mesore 24. From sheet 31 (of the roll), of the year, Thoth 29.

Tineius Demetrius was prefect of Egypt around AD 189-190, so 'Year 30' is probably of Commodus (AD 190). Anachoresis means flight from one's place of registration, usually to escape taxes or liturgies.

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

bgu.2.432

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Karanis? (Arsinoites)

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