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Official letter to a procurator concerning fiscal debts and property of Heron TM 9483Philadelphia (Arsinoites)133 - 137 (?)

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Fragmentary official letter, probably from a higher official to an imperial procurator, about debts and penalties owed to the imperial treasury by a certain Heron and the seizure of his property. It mentions the prefect Petronius, payments of several talents, and earlier letters and judgments of the procurator. From Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, about AD 133-137.

In English machine translation

[…] of Claudius Apollo[…], former gymnasiarch, from […] […] to the accounts (?) 5 1/4 arouras and of reed-land […] arouras […] […] to the procurator. I received another letter […] […] four talents by bank payment to the public treasury […] […] until the most excellent prefect Petronius […] concerning the […] penalties, in accordance with what has been ordained by the greatest Emperor […] […] should dispose; submitting therefore both the letters […] […] of the […] being with Heron, or that he himself pay […] […] a minor, against the property of Heron; ready (?) […] […] I secure for the imperial account; because also […] […] expenses […] ten talents, concerning which also drachmas […] […] according to the judgments and the letters of the procurator […] […] on his behalf I was asked to pay, and when he had read the letters […] […] of Heron […] another in […] […] to be kept in […] […] of the revenues of his own estates […] […] six and in addition two hundred talents owed […] […] these things either from Heron or […] […] against the property of Heron or […] because of the […] […] of the penalties he be released with only four talents […] […] just as the procurator also declared payment […] he asks […] […] someone to seize upon his own property […] […] on the one hand pledges […] and to the fiscus […] […] the things valued at three talents and drachmas […] […] of Heron towards the remaining drachmas […] […] of the estates through him […] of Heron […]

The prefect Petronius is probably Marcus Petronius Mamertinus, prefect of Egypt in the 130s, which underlies the date. The 'imperial account' (kyriakos logos) and fiscus refer to the emperor's treasury.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Schreiben eines höheren Vorgesetzten an einen Prokurator in einer die Interessen des kaiserlichen Fiskus betreffenden Angelegenheit). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 133 - 137 (?) · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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