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HGV: P.Oxy. 1 58 [source] [xml]

Title Appointment of Treasury Officials
Publications P.Oxy. 1 58
More in series P.Oxy.More in series P.Oxy., vol. 1
P.Lond. III 752 descr.
W.Chr. 378
Sel. Pap. II 226
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries VIII 231
Translations Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil (1912) 35 und (1923) 42.; Johnson, Roman Egypt (1936), S. 589, Nr. 343; Johnson - Coleman-Norton - Bourne, Ancient Roman Statutes (1961), S. 233, Nr. 294
Origin Oxyrhynchos
More from Oxyrhynchos
Material Papyrus
Date 13. Sept. 288
More from the period between 288 CE and 289 CE
Commentary Zu Z. 1 vgl. ZPE 155, 2006, S. 254-256.
Subjects Schreiben (amtlich); Servaeus (oder Nervaeus) Africanus an die Strategen der Heptanomia; Einsparungen im öffentlichen Dienst; Personal
Images http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_75...
Images https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463012...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 20720 [source]

Publications P. Oxy. 1 58 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S.; 1898) = Chrest. Wilck. 378 (Wilcken, Ulrich / ; 1912) = P. Lond. 3 p. XXXI no. 752 descr. (Kenyon, Frederic G. / Bell, Harold Idris; 1907) = Sel. Pap. 2 226 (Hunt, Arthur S. / Edgar, Campbell Cowan; 1934)
Inv. no. London, British Library Pap 752
Date AD 288 Sep 13
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[found & written]
People mentioned people
Places mentioned places

DDbDP transcription: p.oxy.1.58 [xml]

AD 288 Oxyrhynchus
[Reprinted from: chr.wilck.378] WChr378

[Ν(?)]ερβαῖος(?)(*) Ἀφρικανὸς στρατηγοῖς ἐπι-
στρατηγίας ἑπτὰ νομῶν καὶ Ἀρσινοίτου
χαίρειν.
ἀπʼ αὐτῶν τῶν όγων(*) ἐφάνη ὡς
5πολλοὶ βουλόμενοι τὰς ταμιακὰς οὐσί-
ας κατεστείειν(*) ὀνόματα ἑαυτοῖς ἐξευ-
ρόντες, οἱ μὲν χειριστῶν οἱ δὲ γραμ-
ματέων οἱ δὲ φροντιστῶν, ὄφελος
μὲν οὐδὲν περιποιοῦσιν τῷ ταμείῳ
10τὰ δὲ περιγεινόμενα κατεστείουσιν(*)·
διʼ ὅπερ ἐδέησεν ἐπισταλῆναι ὑμεῖν(*)
ἵ(*)να ἑκάστης(*) οὐσίας ἕνα τινὰ φρον-
τιστὴν ἀξι[ό]χρεων κινδύνῳ ἑκάστης
βουλῆς αἱρεθῆναι ποιήσητε(*), τὰ δὲ
15λοιπὰ ὀνόματα παύσηται, δυναμένου
τοῦ αἱρουμένου φροντιστοῦ δύο
ἢ τό γε πλεῖστον τρεῖς προσα̣ι̣ρ̣ε̣[ῖ]ν
τοὺς ἐξυπηρετησομένους αὐτῷ
πρὸς τὴν φροντίδα. οὕτω[ς αὐ]τά τε
20τὰ μάταια ἀναλώματα π[α]ύσεται
καὶ αἱ ταμιακαὶ οὐσίαι τῆς προσηκού-
σης ἐπιμελείας τεύξονται. δηλα-
δὴ δὲ τοιούτους αἱρεθῆναι ποιήσει-
τε(*) του τοῖς(*) φρον[τι]σταῖς ὑπηρετη-
25σομένους οἳ καὶ βασάνοις ὑποκείσον-
ται. ἔρρωσθε(*).
(ἔτους) ε ((s-etous)) καὶ δ ((s-etous)) , Θὼθ ιϛ.

Apparatus


^ 1. BL 2.2.92 : [Σ(?)]ερβαῖος(?) prev. ed.
^ 4. l. <λ>όγων
^ 6. l. κατεσθίειν
^ 10. l. κατεσθίουσιν
^ 11. l. ὑμῖν
^ 12. ϊνα papyrus
^ 12. corr. ex εκαστηου
^ 14. corr. ex ποιησαττε
^ 23. corr. ex
^ 23-24. l. ποιήσε |τε
^ 24. l. τοὺ<ς>, BL 1.313 : τούτοισ prev. ed.
^ 26. corr. ex ερρωσο

Editorial History; All History; (detailed)

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HGV 20720 Translation (English) [xml]

(Translation: from P.Oxy. 1) Servaeus Africanus to the strategi of the epistrategia of the Heptanomis and Arsinoite nome, greeting. The accounts have themselves proved that a number of persons wishing to swallow up the estates of the treasury have devised for themselves various titles, such as administrators, secretaries, or superintendents, by which means they secure no advantage to the treasury but swallow up its surplus. It has therefore become necessary to send you instructions to cause the election, on the responsibility of the several councils, of a single trustworthy superintendent over each estate, and to put an end to the other offices. The superintendent elected shall have the power to choose two or at most three other persons to assist him in his work. In this way useless expense will be stopped, and the estates of the treasury will receive proper attention. You will of course take care that only such persons are appointed to assist these superintendents as are in a position to stand the test.